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)'}

11 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_HECATE"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1346 Hecate (Patristic Reception) ENT_REC_HECATE_PATRISTIC reception_of Hecate ENT_HECATE medium The patristic demonized Hecate is the Christian reception of Greek Hecate. Christian demonology reference layer SRC_CHRISTIAN_DEMONOLOGY_GENERAL reviewed Patristic Period PER_PATRISTIC
1704 Perses Titan ENT_PERSES_TITAN parent_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high Hesiod Theogony 411-412: Asteria bore Hecate to Perses. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY approved  
1705 Asteria ENT_ASTERIA parent_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high Hesiod Theogony 411-412. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY approved  
2259 Trivia ENT_TRIVIA reception_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high Trivia ("Three Roads") is the Latin epithet and functional reception of the Greek Hecate as goddess of crossroads; Ovid Metamorphoses 7.177 calls Hecate "Trivia," and the Aeneid 6.13 treats them as the same deity under different names. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI approved  
2318 Bendis ENT_BENDIS equated_with Hecate ENT_HECATE medium Thracian Bendis is equated with Hecate in some ancient sources alongside the primary Artemis equation; both are nocturnal lunar hunting deities. Archibald (1998) ch. 8 notes the Hecate equation in Athenian votive material. Confidence medium: Artemis equation is primary, Hecate secondary. Zosia H. Archibald, The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998) SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN reviewed Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_IRON_AGE
2402 Ragana ENT_BALT_RAGANA aligned_with Hecate ENT_HECATE medium Ragana and Hecate share a cluster of defining attributes that make them the clearest structural parallel across the Baltic and Greek traditions: both are nocturnal sorceress figures associated with crossroads, the moon, shape-shifting, death, and the ambiguous boundary between the living and the dead. Ragana appears in Lithuanian folklore as a shape-shifting witch who travels at night, transforms into animals (especially cats and birds), and is associated with harmful magic and infant death — parallels to Hecate as Chthonia (underworld goddess), Trioditis (crossroads deity), and the patron of witchcraft invoked in Greek magical papyri. Neither figure is a straightforward "goddess of witches" in her origin tradition (Hecate has a complex Titaness origin; Ragana may derive from an earlier supernatural female figure), but their convergent role in folk magic, nocturnal danger, and death boundary makes the alignment structurally sound. Confidence medium: the parallel is typological, not genetic; no direct historical connection exists between Lithuanian and Greek traditions. Greimas (1992) p. 73. Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN reviewed Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN
2948 Hecate (Chaldean) ENT_HER_HECATE_CHALDEAN reception_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high The Chaldean cosmic Hecate develops the Greek goddess Hecate into a metaphysical World-Soul. The Chaldean Oracles (ed. R. Majercik / E. des Places), c. 2nd c. CE SRC_CHALDEAN_ORACLES reviewed  
6406 WitchTok / Online Neopagan Devotion ENT_VF_WITCHTOK reception_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high Hecate is a flagship WitchTok deity for witchcraft and the crossroads; contemporary devotional reception. Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (2020) SRC_BURTON_STRANGE_RITES reviewed  
7298 Hecate of Lagina ENT_CAR_HECATE_LAGINA cult_form_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high Hecate of Lagina is the great Carian cult-form of the Greek Hecate, the indigenous goddess venerated as Hecate at Lagina. Alfred Laumonier, Les cultes indigènes en Carie (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome 188, Paris, 1958) SRC_LAUMONIER_CARIE reviewed  
7617 The Triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone) ENT_WIC_TRIPLE_GODDESS aligned_with Hecate ENT_HECATE high The Crone aspect of the Wiccan Triple Goddess is identified with the classical lunar/chthonic Hecate. Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow (London: Robert Hale, 1978) SRC_VALIENTE_WFT reviewed  
8028 The Triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone) ENT_WIC_TRIPLE_GODDESS reception_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high Classical triple-form goddess underlying the Wiccan Maiden-Mother-Crone; Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon. Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Oxford: OUP, 1999) SRC_HUTTON_TRIUMPH reviewed Modern Wicca / Pagan Witchcraft PER_WICCA

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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]);