entity_relationships: 1472

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
1472	ENT_EGY_ISIS	received_as	ENT_SAINT_MARY	medium	The Isis → Mary transmission is the most-discussed Egyptian→Christian iconographic reception. Core parallels: (1) Isis lactans (nursing the infant Horus/Harpocrates) is the direct visual antecedent of the Virgo lactans iconographic type, particularly in Egypt where Coptic Christians reused Isis-with-Horus statuary for Mary-with-Jesus. (2) Isis's title "Queen of Heaven" (explicitly attested in inscriptions) was applied to Mary (Jeremiah 7:18 condemns Queen of Heaven worship; the title resurfaces as Mary's Marian title). (3) The crown of stars and lunar crescent, the blue mantle, the mourning at the death of the divine son — all appear in Isis imagery before Mary's. Plutarch (De Is. ch. 52-53) documents the Isis mystery tradition. The most influential scholarly treatment: R.E. Witt, Isis in the Graeco-Roman World (1971). Confidence medium: the iconographic parallels in Late Antique Egypt are strong and documented; the degree to which early Christians consciously drew on Isis tradition (vs. parallel development) is debated.	SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS	reviewed	PER_PATRISTIC