entity_relationships: 2451

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
2451	ENT_THRA_ZALMOXIS	aligned_with	ENT_DIONYSUS	medium	Herodotus (Hist. IV.95) preserves a tradition that Zalmoxis was a disciple of Pythagoras (almost certainly a later rationalizing legend), and Plato (Charmides 156d-157c) references Zalmoxis in the context of holistic healing and soul medicine. The structural parallel with Dionysus lies in the mystery cult form: both figures are associated with initiatory rites promising immortality or a blessed afterlife, both involve a period of disappearance and return (Zalmoxis's three-year underground sojourn; Dionysian dismemberment and return), and both cults are attested in the same Thracian-Greek cultural contact zone. Ancient writers (Mnaseas of Patrae via Diodorus Siculus) sometimes directly equated Zalmoxis with the Kronos of mystery traditions. Confidence medium: the parallel is structural and contextual rather than attested by explicit ancient identification.	SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES	reviewed	PER_THRA_IRON_AGE