entity_relationships: 2396

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
2396	ENT_ARA_ALLAT	received_as	ENT_APHRODITE	high	Herodotus (Histories 3.8, c. 430 BCE) is the earliest and most explicit ancient equation of an Arabian goddess with a Greek one: he names the two Arabian deities as "Orotalt" (= Dushara/Allah) and "Alilat" (= Al-Lat), and explicitly states "Alilat is the same as Aphrodite." He specifies Aphrodite Ourania (Heavenly Aphrodite), the celestial aspect of Aphrodite associated with the morning star / Venus — the precise identification that connects Al-Lat to the Venus goddess tradition spanning Inanna/Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Astarte (Canaanite/Phoenician), and Aphrodite (Greek). Herodotus's account predates the Nabataean kingdom proper (which emerges as a distinct polity c. 4th c. BCE) and documents the pre-Nabataean north Arabian goddess tradition. The existing Athena equation (ENT_ARA_ALLAT received_as ENT_ATHENA) reflects the later Palmyrene period identification; the Aphrodite equation via Herodotus is the earlier and more widespread ancient testimony. SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES 3.8.	SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES	reviewed	PER_ARA_PRE_ISLAMIC