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)'}

10 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
456 Nergal ENT_MES_NERGAL spouse_of Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL medium Nergal and Ereshkigal are paired in underworld mythology. Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO reviewed  
1497 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE aligned_with Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL medium 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
1585 Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR sibling_of Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL high In the Descent of Inanna (ETCSL 1.4.1), Inanna explicitly travels "toward her sister Ereshkigal, queen of the Great Below." The sibling relationship between the love goddess and the queen of death is the foundational tension of the narrative: Ereshkigal has power over the underworld that Inanna desires; Inanna is stripped of her divine attributes at each of the seven gates as she descends to face her sister. Their sisterhood makes the confrontation mythologically significant — it is the love of life vs. the finality of death embodied in divine sisters. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL reviewed Early Mesopotamian PER_MES_EARLY
3027 Namtar ENT_MES_NAMTAR aligned_with Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL high Namtar is the death-demon vizier of Ereshkigal. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL reviewed  
3029 Neti ENT_MES_NETI aligned_with Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL high Neti, the gatekeeper, serves Ereshkigal at the seven gates. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL reviewed  
3030 Belet-seri ENT_MES_BELET_SERI aligned_with Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL medium Belet-seri is the scribe in the court of Ereshkigal. Andrew R. George, The Babylonian Gilgamesh Epic: Introduction, Critical Edition and Cuneiform Texts, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 2003) SRC_GEORGE_GILGAMESH reviewed  
3031 Gugalanna ENT_MES_GUGALANNA consort_of Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL high Gugalanna, the Bull of Heaven, is the first husband of Ereshkigal. Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature SRC_ETCSL reviewed  
3692 Humut-tabal ENT_MES_HUMUTTABAL member_of Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL low Ferryman in the service of Ereshkigal. Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO reviewed  
3848 Lelwani ENT_HTT_LELWANI identified_with Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL medium Hittite underworld deity equated with Allatu and Ereshkigal Piotr Taracha, Religions of Second Millennium Anatolia (Dresdner Beiträge zur Hethitologie 27; Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2009) SRC_TARACHA_ANATOLIA reviewed  
7850 Irkalla (Kur) ENT_RLMX_IRKALLA ruled_by Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL high Ereshkigal is queen of Irkalla/Kur, the Mesopotamian netherworld (Descent of Ishtar). 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]);