Relationships

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

subject_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity initiating or holding the relationship'}
relationship_type
{'description': 'Typed relationship from the controlled vocabulary (see relationship_types table)'}
object_entity_id
{'description': 'The entity receiving or targeted by the relationship'}
confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low / speculative'}
rationale
{'description': 'Scholarly justification for the relationship, with source citations'}
source_id
{'description': 'Primary source justifying this relationship'}
period_id
{'description': 'Historical period in which this relationship is attested (null = all periods)'}

2 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_ADONIS"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1502 Dumuzi/Tammuz ENT_MES_DUMUZI_TAMMUZ received_as Adonis ENT_ADONIS low The Greek Adonis is the reception of the Semitic "Adon" (lord), the Phoenician/Syrian dying vegetation deity whose annual mourning rites were celebrated at Byblos on the Adonis River. This deity is the Phoenician Iron Age reception of the Mesopotamian Dumuzi/Tammuz tradition: Tammuz (= Dumuzi) was mourned annually in Mesopotamian ritual (Ezekiel 8:14 attests this in Jerusalem), and the rite transmitted to Phoenicia and then to Greece as the Adonis cult. The Greek Adonis myth — the beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite, killed by a boar, mourned annually, descending to and returning from the underworld — reproduces the Dumuzi/Inanna narrative structure. Lucian (De Syria Dea 6-9) describes the Byblos rites as a transmission from "Osiris" via Phoenicia. Confidence low because the transmission route goes through Phoenician intermediaries (not direct Mesopotamian→Greek contact) and the add_phoenician_iron_age_layer.sql script adds the Phoenician intermediate entities. Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992) SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
3493 Adonis ENT_PHO_ADONIS reception_of Adonis ENT_ADONIS high The Greek Adonis derives from the Phoenician adon ("lord") of the Byblos cult. Philo of Byblos, Phoenician History (Sanchuniathon), via Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 1.9-10 SRC_PHILO_BYBLOS reviewed  

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CREATE TABLE "entity_relationships" (
   [relationship_id] INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
   [subject_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [relationship_type] TEXT REFERENCES [relationship_types]([relationship_type]),
   [object_entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [review_status] TEXT,
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_period_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_source_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_object_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([object_entity_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_relationship_type]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([relationship_type]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_relationships_subject_entity_id]
    ON [entity_relationships] ([subject_entity_id]);