entity_relationships: 1486

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
1486	ENT_HTT_ILLUYANKA	received_as	ENT_PYTHON	low	The Illuyanka myth (Hittite) and the Apollo/Python tradition both belong to the broader Near Eastern "storm/solar deity defeats serpent to claim a sacred site" pattern, which appears also in Baal/Lotan (Ugaritic), Marduk/Tiamat (Babylonian), and Zeus/Typhon (Greek). Illuyanka is defeated by Tarhunna (the storm god) with help from the goddess Inaras and a mortal, paralleling the multi-agent defeats in other serpent-combat myths. The transmission to the specifically solar Apollo/Python form is indirect — probably via the same broad transmission pathway as other Near Eastern→Greek myth contacts in the Archaic period. Confidence low because Apollo (not the storm god) is the serpent's defeater in the Greek version, and no direct textual link between Illuyanka and Python is demonstrable.	SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS	reviewed	PER_GRK_ARCHAIC