entity_relationships: 2433

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
2433	ENT_EGY_THOTH	patron_of	ENT_EGY_OGDOAD	medium	Thoth is the patron deity of Hermopolis Magna (khmun, the City of the Eight), the city whose name, cosmological identity, and central religious system are the Ogdoad. The Hermopolitan tradition in some versions makes Thoth the active creative agent who gives voice to the Ogdoad's latent primordial forces — he is the divine Logos/Word who speaks the creator into existence from the primordial waters stirred by the Ogdoad. In one version of the Hermopolitan creation narrative, it is Thoth (in his form as the ibis or the sacred baboon) who lays the primordial cosmic egg from which the creator (Ra-Atum or Thoth himself) hatches at the first sunrise. The relationship between Thoth and the Ogdoad is thus that of creative mediator/patron to the primordial forces he organizes and articulates. Confidence medium: the specific tradition varies — in some versions Thoth creates through the Ogdoad; in others the Ogdoad creates independently and Thoth is simply their city's patron; in yet others Thoth is identified with the Ogdoad's collective wisdom. Wilkinson (2003) pp. 99-102; Pinch (2002) pp. 198-200.	SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS	reviewed	PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM