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).

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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)'}

6 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_GNO_SAMAEL"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1450 Azazel ENT_ISR_AZAZEL received_as Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL medium Samael in Jewish tradition draws substantially from the Azazel archetype: an angelic being who was expelled or degraded from the divine realm and associated with the wilderness/demonic sphere. The Zohar identifies Samael with the serpent of Eden; pseudepigraphical literature (2 Enoch, the Apocalypse of Abraham) conflates Azazel and Samael as names for the same adversarial angel. DDD_BIBLE s.v. "Samael" documents the convergence. The expelled-angel dimension of Samael comes primarily from the Azazel tradition. Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible SRC_DDD_BIBLE reviewed Late Antiquity PER_LATE_ANTIQUE
1452 Satan ENT_ISR_SATAN received_as Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL medium Samael in Kabbalistic theology (Zohar) is the chief of the "other side" (sitra achra), the adversarial force opposing the divine — the direct reception of the Satan tradition. The Zohar explicitly identifies Samael as the great serpent/Satan figure: "Samael is the great dragon of the sea" (Zohar III.282a). The name Samael (Hebrew: "venom of God" or "blind God" in Gnostic contexts) appears in Jewish literature from the 2nd century BCE onward as an adversarial angel drawing on the Satan archetype. In the Apocalypse of Moses and the Life of Adam and Eve, Samael is identified as the devil who tempted Eve. Zohar SRC_ZOHAR reviewed Late Antiquity PER_LATE_ANTIQUE
2437 Yaldabaoth ENT_GNO_YALDABAOTH aligned_with Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL high "Samael" ("Blind god") is the third name given to Yaldabaoth in Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1): his names are Yaldabaoth, Saklas, and Samael. In Sethian cosmology, Samael refers to his blindness to the divine world above him (he sees only the material realm and his own creation); in Jewish tradition Samael is the chief adversarial angel. The identification equates the Gnostic chief Archon with the Jewish demonic adversary, positioning Yaldabaoth as both the material creator and the divine opponent. This identification is one of the sharpest theological provocations in Sethian Gnostic theology — equating the creator God of the Hebrew Bible with the adversary. NHC II,1. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH
2817 Lilith ENT_JM_LILITH consort_of Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL high In rabbinic and Zoharic lore Lilith is the consort of Samael, the demonic couple. Zohar SRC_ZOHAR reviewed  
3113 Sitra Achra ENT_JM_SITRA_ACHRA ruled_by Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL high The Sitra Achra is ruled by Samael, its king. Zohar SRC_ZOHAR reviewed  
4263 Samael (Angel of Mars) ENT_SOL_SAMAEL_MARS aligned_with Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL low Shares the name Samael with the Gnostic/demiurgic Samael but is a distinct grimoire planetary-angel (homonym, not identity). Liber Razielis (Latin, compiled for Alfonso X) SRC_LIBER_RAZIELIS 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]);