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)'}
17 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_MES_ENKI_EA"
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| relationship_id ▼ | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1584 | Ninhursag ENT_MES_NINHURSAG | paired_with | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | high | Ninhursag as Enki's divine partner in the Enki and Ninhursag myth (ETCSL 1.1.1); their relationship alternates between creative union and conflict; Ninhursag ultimately heals the ailing Enki and is celebrated as the mother of all living things. | Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL | reviewed | Early Mesopotamian PER_MES_EARLY |
| 1595 | Nammu ENT_MES_NAMMU | parent_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | high | In Enki and Ninmah (ETCSL 1.1.2), Nammu is explicitly described as Enki's mother: she wakes Enki to help solve the problem of the gods having to do their own labor, and calls him "my son." The Eridu cosmogonic tradition places Nammu as the primordial sea from which Enki/the Abzu emerges; this makes Nammu the generative source of Enki's fresh-water wisdom domain. | Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL | reviewed | Early Mesopotamian PER_MES_EARLY |
| 1601 | Prometheus ENT_PROMETHEUS | aligned_with | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | low | Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). | Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON | reviewed | Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC |
| 2394 | Napirisha ENT_ELAM_NAPIRISHA | aligned_with | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | medium | Napirisha and Enki/Ea share the domain of life-giving water as a divine principle — both are associated with the fresh water that sustains life (the Mesopotamian apsû / Napirisha's highland springs), both embody divine wisdom manifest through the water medium, and both serve as the principal "great god" of their respective traditions alongside the supreme sky deity. The geographical proximity of Elam and Mesopotamia and the documented Elamite borrowing of Akkadian scribal culture means these deities' parallel functions would have been apparent to ancient practitioners. Confidence medium: the alignment is structural and domain-based; no ancient source explicitly equates them. Carter & Stolper (1984) p. 50. | Elizabeth Carter and Matthew W. Stolper, Elam: Surveys of Political History and Archaeology (University of California Publications, Near Eastern Studies 25; University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles / London, 1984) SRC_CARTER_STOLPER_ELAM | reviewed | Kingdom of Elam PER_ELAM_CLASSICAL |
| 3010 | Damkina ENT_MES_DAMKINA | consort_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | high | Damkina is the consort of Ea (Enuma Elish I.78-84). | Enuma Elish (the Babylonian Epic of Creation), c. late 2nd millennium BCE SRC_ENUMA_ELISH | reviewed | |
| 3015 | Adapa ENT_MES_ADAPA | child_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | high | Adapa, the sage of Eridu, is the son/creature of Ea. | Benjamin R. Foster, Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature SRC_FOSTER_MUSES | reviewed | |
| 3022 | Nanshe ENT_MES_NANSHE | child_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | medium | Nanshe is a daughter of Ea/Enki. | Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL | reviewed | |
| 3659 | Isimud ENT_MES_ISIMUD | member_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | low | The two-faced vizier in the service of Enki. | Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO | reviewed | |
| 3660 | Isimud ENT_MES_ISIMUD | transmits | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | medium | Carries the messages and commands of Enki. | Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO | reviewed | |
| 3673 | Uttu ENT_MES_UTTU | child_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | high | Daughter of Enki (Enki and Ninhursag). | Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO | reviewed | |
| 3675 | Enbilulu ENT_MES_ENBILULU | child_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | medium | The canal-god, son of Enki. | W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths (Eisenbrauns, 2013) SRC_LAMBERT_BCM | reviewed | |
| 3678 | Sirsir ENT_MES_SIRSIR | member_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | low | Boatman of Enki of Eridu. | W. G. Lambert, Babylonian Creation Myths (Eisenbrauns, 2013) SRC_LAMBERT_BCM | reviewed | |
| 3945 | Mummu ENT_MES_MUMMU | imprisoned_by | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | high | The vizier of Apsu bound by Ea at the beginning | Enuma Elish (the Babylonian Epic of Creation), c. late 2nd millennium BCE SRC_ENUMA_ELISH | reviewed | |
| 4053 | Gibil ENT_MES_GIBIL_GIRRA | member_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | low | Fire/purification deities were associated with Enki/Ea's sphere of incantation and ritual. | Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus SRC_ORACC | reviewed | |
| 4055 | Ninildu ENT_MES_NINILDU | member_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | low | Divine craftsmen belong to Enki/Ea's circle of artisan deities. | Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO | reviewed | |
| 4068 | Ningirima ENT_MES_NINGIRIMA | member_of | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | low | She shares the incantation/purification sphere later dominated by Enki/Ea and his son Asalluhi. | Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO | reviewed | |
| 7855 | Dilmun ENT_RLMX_DILMUN | associated_with | Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA | high | Enki provides fresh water to Dilmun in the myth Enki and Ninhursag, making it the pure land. | The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld (Akkadian), trans. S. Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford University Press, 2000) SRC_DESCENT_ISHTAR | 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]);