entity_relationships: 1468

2,079 typed, source-backed relationships between entities. Each row records a directed relationship (subject → type → object) with a justifying source and rationale note. See relationship_types for the full controlled vocabulary of 70 relationship types. Key types: reception_of / received_as (transmission across traditions), equated_with (interpretatio graeca / analogues), parent_of (genealogy), member_of (collective membership), emanates_from (Gnostic/Neoplatonic structure).

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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relationship_id	subject_entity_id	relationship_type	object_entity_id	confidence	rationale	source_id	review_status	period_id
1468	ENT_EGY_HATHOR	equated_with	ENT_APHRODITE	medium	[RETYPED v2.1.60 received_as->equated_with, re-sourced Plutarch->Herodotus: the ancient testimony is the Aphrodite temple in the cow-goddess city — "the name of the city is Atarbechis, and in it there is set up a holy temple of Aphrodite" (Hdt 2.41, trans. Macaulay, PG #2707, verified verbatim 2026-07-01); Atarbechis = Egyptian Per-Hathor (Wilkinson). Equation via interpretatio; the derivation channel for Aphrodite is already recorded via the Astarte/Ishtar edges.] Herodotus (2.41, c. 450 BCE) explicitly equates Aphrodite with Hathor, noting that "what the Greeks call Aphrodite Urania, the Egyptians call the same goddess Isis." The identification rests on shared domains (love, beauty, music, dance, fertility) and the sacred cow (Hathor's primary animal; Aphrodite's connection to Cyprus where cattle sacrifice was prominent). Plutarch (De Is. ch. 57) also discusses the identification. Note: this adds an Egyptian source for Aphrodite alongside the Canaanite Astarte chain already in the DB — both Hathor and Astarte contributed to the Aphrodite complex.	SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES	needs_review	PER_GRK_CLASSICAL