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entity_relationships: 2400

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).

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relationship_id subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
2400 ENT_SLAV_ROD aligned_with ENT_ZEUS medium Rod functions as the supreme ancestral creator deity of the Slavic tradition — he governs birth, destiny, and divine ancestry — a structural role cognate with Zeus's position as sovereign sky-father. Medieval Russian ecclesiastical sources (the "Words Against Paganism," 10th–12th century) attack the cult of "Rod and the Rozhanitsy" (Rod's feminine birth-fate companions) as a persistent rival to Christianity, suggesting Rod occupied the highest rung of the pre-Perun Slavic divine hierarchy. Rybakov (Yazychestvo drevnikh slavyan, 1981) identifies Rod as the primordial supreme deity of Slavic religion, whose cult was marginalized but not eliminated when Vladimir I elevated Perun to state pantheon head in 980 CE. The Zeus alignment is recognized in comparative Indo-European studies as the standard parallel for Slavic supreme creator deities. Confidence medium: the Rod alignment with Zeus is structural/comparative, not explicit in ancient sources; Rod's cult is reconstructed from anti-pagan polemical texts whose theological claims require critical filtration. Brückner (1918) s.v. "Rod." SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH reviewed PER_SLAV_PAGAN
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