Relationships
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)'}
7 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_PAN"
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| relationship_id ▼ | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1348 | Pan (Romantic-Victorian Reception) ENT_REC_PAN_ROMANTIC | reception_of | Pan ENT_PAN | high | The Romantic-Victorian Pan is a documented literary-religious reception of the Greek god Pan. | Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Oxford: OUP, 1999) SRC_HUTTON_TRIUMPH | reviewed | 19th Century Occultism PER_19C_OCCULT |
| 1397 | Devil ENT_CHR_DEVIL | reception_of | Pan ENT_PAN | medium | The Christian Devil's iconographic form (horns, hooves, goat-haunches, lust) derives primarily from Pan; Pan's patristic demonization produced the visual language of the Devil across medieval Christianity. | Justin Martyr, First and Second Apologies (c. 150–165 CE) SRC_JUSTIN_MARTYR_APOLOGIES | reviewed | Patristic Period PER_PATRISTIC |
| 1578 | Min ENT_EGY_MIN | received_as | Pan ENT_PAN | high | Herodotus makes the Min-Pan identification explicit at 2.46: "in Egypt, Pan is reckoned one of the eight gods who are of the earliest rank" — this refers to Min, the ithyphallic deity of Coptos and Akhmim, who was identified by Greek visitors as Pan. The equation rests on: (1) Min's conspicuous ithyphallism, which Greek observers associated with Pan's fertility and sexuality; (2) Min's association with the desert and with wild spaces parallel to Pan's domain; (3) the Egyptian goat cult at Mendes that Herodotus also describes in 2.46 may have reinforced the equation via the goat association of Pan. The identification became standard in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods; the Greco-Roman city of Akhmim (ancient Ipu/Khent-Abt, Min's cult center) was called Panopolis (City of Pan) by the Greeks. | Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | reviewed | Late Period PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD |
| 2059 | Syrinx ENT_SYRINX | received_as | Pan ENT_PAN | medium | Syrinx the naiad fled Pan and was transformed into the reed pipe (syrinx) that bears her name; Ovid Metamorphoses 1.689-712 is the fullest account. | Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY | approved | |
| 2461 | Faunus ENT_ITA_FAUNUS | aligned_with | Pan ENT_PAN | high | Roman writers explicitly identified Faunus with the Greek Pan: Cicero (De Natura Deorum 2.6) calls Pan the "Faunus" of the Greeks; Ovid (Fasti 2.267-270) explicitly compares and equates the two. Both deities are prophetic, goat-footed (in some traditions), associated with wildlands and shepherds, and attached to a major initiatory festival (Lupercalia/Pan-Greek Paneia). The identification is so complete that Roman mythographers treated them as interchangeable. Confidence high: explicit ancient identification. | Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI | reviewed | Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC |
| 2464 | Silvanus ENT_ITA_SILVANUS | aligned_with | Pan ENT_PAN | medium | Silvanus and Pan share the structural function of deity of uncultivated, boundary wildlands, and both are associated with shepherds and the rustic world beyond the city. Virgil's Eclogues place them in equivalent roles: "Silvanus and Pan and the sisterhood of Naiads" (Ecl. 10.24-26). Ancient writers sometimes grouped them together as rural deities. However, unlike Faunus/Pan, the identification of Silvanus with Pan is less systematic — Silvanus has a distinctly Italic character (boundary guardian, property deity) that Pan lacks. Confidence medium: structural parallel and Virgilian grouping, not explicit identification. | Virgil, Aeneid (19 BCE) SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID | reviewed | Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC |
| 7616 | The Horned God ENT_WIC_HORNED_GOD | reception_of | Pan ENT_PAN | high | The Horned God's goat-horned, ithyphallic nature-deity persona derives from the 19th-century Romantic revival of the Greek Pan that fed directly into Wicca (Hutton). | Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow (London: Robert Hale, 1978) SRC_VALIENTE_WFT | 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]);