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)'}

14 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_FIRE"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
786 Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA patron_of Fire ENT_FIRE high Vesta is associated with sacred hearth fire. Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD reviewed  
811 Brigid ENT_CEL_BRIGID patron_of Fire ENT_FIRE medium Brigid is associated with fire in later tradition/reception. Miranda Green, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend SRC_GREEN_CELTIC_GODS reviewed  
893 Atar ENT_ZOR_ATAR patron_of Fire ENT_FIRE high Atar is sacred fire. Avesta SRC_AVESTA reviewed  
985 Jinn ENT_ISL_JINN created_from Fire ENT_FIRE high Jinn are created from smokeless fire. Qur’an SRC_QURAN reviewed  
1731 Hestia ENT_HESTIA patron_of Fire ENT_FIRE high Homeric Hymns 24 and 29 To Hestia: Hestia as goddess of the sacred hearth and fire. Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS approved  
2289 Gabija ENT_BALT_GABIJA embodies Fire ENT_FIRE high Gabija is the personification of the sacred hearth fire; the fire IS Gabija, not merely her symbol. Gimbutas (1963) pp. 204-205. Marija Gimbutas, The Balts (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963) SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS reviewed Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN
3024 Nuska ENT_MES_NUSKA embodies Fire ENT_FIRE medium Nuska is the deified fire and lamplight. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL reviewed  
3534 Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA embodies Fire ENT_FIRE high Vesta is the sacred hearth-fire. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3535 Vulcan ENT_ROM_VULCAN embodies Fire ENT_FIRE high Vulcan is destructive and forge fire. Georg Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Römer (2nd ed., Munich, 1912) SRC_WISSOWA_RKR reviewed  
3587 Sethlans ENT_ETR_SETHLANS embodies Fire ENT_FIRE high Sethlans, the smith-god of the forge-fire. De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2006) SRC_DEGRUMMOND_ETRUSCAN reviewed  
3940 Ishum ENT_MES_ISHUM presides_over Fire ENT_FIRE high The benevolent fire god and herald Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature SRC_FOSTER_MUSES reviewed  
3973 Nuriel ENT_JM_NURIEL presides_over Fire ENT_FIRE medium Angel of fire Peter Schäfer, Synopse zur Hekhalot-Literatur SRC_HEKHALOT_SCHAFER_SYNOPSE reviewed  
4051 Gibil ENT_MES_GIBIL_GIRRA presides_over Fire ENT_FIRE high Gibil/Girra is the fire god. Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus SRC_ORACC reviewed  
5646 Svarozhich ENT_SLAV_SVAROZHICH presides_over Fire ENT_FIRE high Svarozhich personifies the sacred and hearth fire in the East-Slavic homiletic tradition. Helmold of Bosau, Chronica Slavorum (c. 1170) — the Polabian and Pomeranian Slavic gods SRC_HELMOLD_CHRONICA 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]);