entity_relationships: 1516

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
1516	ENT_PHO_BAAL_HAMMON	received_as	ENT_ROM_SATURN	medium	Diodorus Siculus 20.14 explicitly calls the god of Carthage to whom children were sacrificed "Kronos," using the Greek name for Saturn. In Roman North Africa, Baal Hammon was worshipped as Saturnus Africanus; thousands of votive stelae to Saturnus from Roman North Africa continue the Baal Hammon tradition. Tertullian (Apology 9) identifies "Saturnus" as the North African deity who receives child sacrifice. The molk rite — child sacrifice to Baal Hammon — persisted in the Saturnus Africanus cult in vestigial forms. The identification reflects shared chthonic and agricultural associations: both Saturn/Kronos and Baal Hammon are associated with time, the cycles of harvest, and the demands of divine sovereignty. Confidence medium because the theological mapping is partially opportunistic (Roman interpretatio) rather than purely functional.	SRC_MARKOE_PHOENICIANS	reviewed	PER_ROM_IMPERIAL