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)'}

13 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_LIGHT"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
539 Uriel ENT_ISR_URIEL patron_of Light ENT_LIGHT medium DDD supports Uriel as angelic figure associated with light/illumination; normalized from broad aligned_with to functional patron_of without asserting identity with Light. Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible SRC_DDD_BIBLE reviewed  
924 Anosh ENT_MAN_ANOSH belongs_to_realm Light ENT_LIGHT medium Anosh is a lightworld figure. Ginza Rba SRC_GINZA_RBA reviewed  
925 Sitil ENT_MAN_SITIL belongs_to_realm Light ENT_LIGHT medium Sitil is a lightworld figure. Ginza Rba SRC_GINZA_RBA reviewed  
926 Melka d-Nhura ENT_MAN_MELKA_D_NHURA belongs_to_realm Light ENT_LIGHT high Melka d-Nhura means King of Light. Ginza Rba SRC_GINZA_RBA reviewed  
927 Hayyi Rabbi ENT_MAN_HAYYI_RABBI belongs_to_realm Light ENT_LIGHT high Hayyi Rabbi is supreme source of the world of light. Ginza Rba SRC_GINZA_RBA reviewed  
964 Father of Greatness ENT_MANICH_FATHER_GREATNESS belongs_to_realm Light ENT_LIGHT high The Father of Greatness belongs to and rules the World of Light. Samuel N. C. Lieu, Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China SRC_LIEU_MANICHAEISM reviewed  
1308 Mithra ENT_ZOR_MITHRA embodies Light ENT_LIGHT medium Mithra embodies light and solar radiance as a deity of light in Iranian tradition. Avesta SRC_AVESTA reviewed  
1769 Thesan ENT_ETR_THESAN patron_of Light ENT_LIGHT high De Grummond (2006): Thesan personifies the dawn and the light it brings; attested on the Piacenza liver as a distinct solar-boundary deity. De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2006) SRC_DEGRUMMOND_ETRUSCAN approved  
1806 Lucy ENT_SAINT_LUCY patron_of Light ENT_LIGHT high Butler's Lives of the Saints: Lucy of Syracuse (martyred c. 304 CE) is the patron of the blind and those with eye ailments; her name derives from Latin lux (light), and her feast day (13 December) was historically the longest night. Butler’s Lives of the Saints SRC_BUTLER_SAINTS approved  
1855 Aether ENT_AETHER embodies Light ENT_LIGHT high Hesiod Theogony 124: Aether is the bright upper air and primordial light of heaven, born from Erebus and Nyx. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY approved  
1856 Hemera ENT_HEMERA embodies Light ENT_LIGHT high Hesiod Theogony 124-125: Hemera (Day) personifies the light of daytime, born from Erebus and Nyx. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY approved  
2564 Ishraq ENT_SUF_ISHRAQ aligned_with Light ENT_LIGHT high Ishraqi metaphysics grades all reality as light from the Light of Lights. Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (University of North Carolina Press, 1975) SRC_SCHIMMEL_SUFISM reviewed Classical Islam PER_ISL_CLASSICAL
3187 The Divine Names ENT_DIO_DIVINE_NAMES embodies Light ENT_LIGHT high Light is among the Divine Names. Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, On the Divine Names (Peri theion onomaton), c. 500 CE (trans. J. Parker, The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite, 1897) SRC_PSEUDO_DIONYSIUS_DIVINE_NAMES 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]);