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_HTT_SHAUSHKA"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1476 Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR identified_with Shaushka ENT_HTT_SHAUSHKA high Hittite religious texts explicitly call Shaushka "Ishtar of Nineveh" and "Ishtar of Samuha," demonstrating a direct identification rather than mere structural parallel. The Myth of Shaushka and Hedammu and treaty texts from the Hittite empire routinely use the two names as equivalents. Shaushka is the Hurrian reception of the Mesopotamian love/war goddess complex, transmitting the Inanna/Ishtar tradition into Anatolian religion. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE
2357 Arubani ENT_URA_ARUBANI aligned_with Shaushka ENT_HTT_SHAUSHKA medium Arubani and Hurrian/Hittite Shaushka are structurally parallel: both are the goddess associated with the supreme storm/war deity (Arubani with Khaldi; Shaushka as consort of Teshub), both are love/arts/fertility deities complementing their consort's war function. If Teisheba = Teshub through Hurro-Urartian inheritance, then Arubani as Khaldi's consort plausibly inherits the Shaushka role. Confidence medium: the comparison is structurally sound but the surviving evidence for Arubani's precise functions is thin. Zimansky (1985) p. 72. Paul E. Zimansky, Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State (Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 41; Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, 1985) SRC_ZIMANSKY_URARTU reviewed Kingdom of Urartu PER_URA_IRON_AGE

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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]);