Relationships
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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)'}
27 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_HERMES"
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| relationship_id ▼ | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Zeus ENT_ZEUS | parent_of | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Hermes is son of Zeus. | Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS | reviewed | |
| 19 | Hermanubis ENT_SYN_HERMANUBIS | syncretized_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Hermanubis fuses Hermes with Anubis. | Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS | reviewed | |
| 26 | Hermes Chthonios ENT_HERMES_CHTHONIOS_CULT | cult_form_of | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Hermes Chthonios is a chthonic/psychopompic form of Hermes. | Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS | reviewed | |
| 790 | Mercury ENT_ROM_MERCURY | identified_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Mercury is the Roman counterpart of Hermes. | Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD | reviewed | |
| 1329 | Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS | syncretized_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Hermes Trismegistus is the Hellenistic synthesis of Greek Hermes. | Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM | reviewed | |
| 1342 | Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS | reception_of | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Hermes Trismegistus is the Hermetic reception of Greek Hermes. | Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM | reviewed | Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC |
| 1463 | Hermanubis ENT_SYN_HERMANUBIS | reception_of | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Hermanubis as Greco-Egyptian reception of Hermes in his psychopomp function; fused with Anubis in the shared role of guide of souls of the dead. | Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (De Iside et Osiride, c. 100–120 CE) SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS | reviewed | Hellenistic Period PER_GRK_HELLENISTIC |
| 1500 | Nabu ENT_MES_NABU | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Functional/typological cognate (no attested diffusion of the Mesopotamian deity into the later cult); per Burkert/West the real transmission, where any, runs through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries. | 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 |
| 2016 | Maia ENT_MAIA | parent_of | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Hesiod Theogony 938-939: Maia, daughter of Atlas, bore to Zeus glorious Hermes. | Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY | approved | |
| 2019 | Cyllene ENT_CYLLENE | paired_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Homeric Hymn 4 (To Hermes) 2: Hermes was born "in a cave on Mount Cyllene"; the mountain nymph Kyllene is associated with his birth. | Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS | approved | |
| 2336 | Tir ENT_ARM_TIR | syncretized_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Agathangelos §22 explicitly equates Tir with Hermes: "Tir, who is called Hermes by the Greeks... the scribe of Aramazd, interpreter of dreams and teacher of the arts of writing." The equation reflects shared domains: writing, commerce, messenger/scribe function, psychopomp role (recording souls' deeds), and divine interpreter. The most explicit deity-to-deity equation in Agathangelos after Aramazd=Zeus. | Agathangelos, History of the Armenians (Patmut'iwn Hayots'), 5th c. CE; trans. Robert W. Thomson (State University of New York Press, Albany NY, 1976) SRC_AGATHANGELOS_HISTORY | reviewed | Pre-Christian Armenian PER_ARM_PAGAN |
| 2466 | Carmenta ENT_ITA_CARMENTA | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Ovid (Fasti 1.469-474) and Livy (AUC 1.7.8) make Carmenta/Carmentis the mother of Evander, with Mercury/Hermes as Evander's father. This makes Carmenta the consort of Hermes in the Latin tradition of the Arcadian migration to Italy, linking the Italian prophetess-goddess directly to the Greek god of speech, prophecy, and transmission — an appropriate pairing for a deity of prophetic carmen (song/speech). The alignment is structural: Carmenta presides over prophetic speech (carmen) in the Latin sphere as Hermes presides over communication and divine messages in the Greek sphere. Ovid Fasti 1.469-474. | Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI | reviewed | Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC |
| 3476 | Turms ENT_ETR_TURMS | syncretized_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | The Etruscan Hermes. | De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2006) SRC_DEGRUMMOND_ETRUSCAN | reviewed | |
| 3640 | Sakon ENT_PHO_SAKON | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | low | Sakon, an obscure deity tentatively equated with Hermes. | Philo of Byblos, Phoenician History (Sanchuniathon), via Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica 1.9-10 SRC_PHILO_BYBLOS | reviewed | |
| 3820 | Odin ENT_NOR_ODIN | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Modern functional parallel: Odin and Hermes as wandering psychopomps, gods of eloquence and hidden knowledge (Davidson; Simek). Layered on the firmer Mercury interpretatio. | Rudolf Simek, Dictionary of Northern Mythology (trans. A. Hall, D. S. Brewer, 1993) SRC_SIMEK_NORTHERN | reviewed | |
| 4239 | Spirit of Mercury (Utarid) ENT_AST_MERCURY_SPIRIT | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | The Picatrix Mercury spirit is the astral-magic functional cognate of the Greek Hermes. | Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim), trans. Greer & Warnock; ed. Pingree SRC_PICATRIX | reviewed | |
| 4303 | al-Kutbaʾ ENT_NAB_AL_KUTBA | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Nabataean scribe-and-commerce god, counterpart of Hermes/Nabu. | John F. Healey, The Religion of the Nabataeans: A Conspectus (Leiden: Brill, 2001) SRC_HEALEY_NABATAEAN_RELIGION | reviewed | |
| 4451 | Monimos ENT_ARA_MONIMOS | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Julian (Hymn to King Helios) equates Monimos of Edessa with Hermes. | Edward Lipiński, The Aramaeans: Their Ancient History, Culture, Religion (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 100; Peeters, Leuven, 2000) SRC_LIPINSKI_ARAMEANS | reviewed | |
| 4881 | Ophiel ENT_REN_OPHIEL | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Ophiel is the Olympic Spirit of Mercury (Greek Hermes). | Arbatel de magia veterum (Basel, 1575) — the seven Olympic Spirits SRC_ARBATEL | reviewed | |
| 4917 | Taphthartharath ENT_REN_TAPHTHARTHARATH | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Taphthartharath embodies the raw force of Mercury (Greek Hermes). | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres (1533) — incl. the Scale of Seven (Bk II.10) SRC_AGRIPPA_OCCULTA | reviewed | |
| 4921 | Tiriel ENT_REN_TIRIEL | aligned_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Tiriel governs Mercury, whose Greek planetary deity is Hermes. | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres (1533) — incl. the Scale of Seven (Bk II.10) SRC_AGRIPPA_OCCULTA | reviewed | |
| 6014 | Turms ENT_ETR_TURMS | equated_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Turms is the Etruscan Hermes/Mercury (messenger and psychopomp); the ancient-interpretatio equated_with form. | De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2006) SRC_DEGRUMMOND_ETRUSCAN | reviewed | |
| 6410 | WitchTok / Online Neopagan Devotion ENT_VF_WITCHTOK | reception_of | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Hermes has an active WitchTok following (luck, communication, travel); contemporary devotional reception. | Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (2020) SRC_BURTON_STRANGE_RITES | reviewed | |
| 6650 | Hermes-Nabu (Mercury) of Harran ENT_HRN_HERMES_MERCURY | equated_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | The Harranian Mercury-deity is identified with Greek Hermes (interpretatio; Green). | Tamara M. Green, The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran SRC_GREEN_MOON_GOD | reviewed | |
| 7271 | Kandaules ENT_LYD_KANDAULES | equated_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Hipponax reports Kandaules ('dog-throttler') as a Lydian title of Hermes, a guardian/psychopomp figure. | Munn, Mark. The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion (University of California Press, 2006) SRC_MUNN_MOTHER_GODS | reviewed | |
| 7311 | Apollo-Mithras-Helios-Hermes ENT_COMM_APOLLO_MITHRAS_HELIOS_HERMES | equated_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | high | Ancient interpretatio: the Hermes element of the composite theonym identifies the god with the Greek messenger god. | Versluys, M.J. — Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World: Nemrud Dag and Commagene under Antiochos I (Cambridge, 2017) SRC_VERSLUYS_COMMAGENE | reviewed | |
| 7390 | Kadmilos (Kasmilos) ENT_MYST_KADMILOS | equated_with | Hermes ENT_HERMES | medium | Ancient scholia identify the Samothracian Kadmilos/Kasmilos with Hermes. | Susan Guettel Cole, Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace (EPRO 96, Brill, 1984) SRC_COLE_THEOI_MEGALOI | 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]);