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)'}

11 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_PERSEPHONE"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
8 Demeter ENT_DEMETER parent_of Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE high Persephone is daughter of Demeter. Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS reviewed  
9 Hades ENT_HADES spouse_of Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE high Persephone is queen and spouse of Hades. Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS reviewed  
27 Kore ENT_KORE cult_form_of Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE medium Kore is the Maiden form/title of Persephone, especially in mystery-cult contexts. Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS reviewed  
92 Cerberus ENT_CERBERUS guardian_of Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE medium Cerberus guards the underworld ruled by Hades and Persephone. Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS reviewed  
793 Proserpina ENT_ROM_PROSERPINA identified_with Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE high Proserpina is identified with Persephone. Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries SRC_ROMAN_OCD reviewed  
1496 Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL aligned_with Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE medium Functional/typological cognate (no attested diffusion of the Mesopotamian deity into the later cult); per Burkert/West the real transmission, where any, runs through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries. 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
1720 Zeus ENT_ZEUS parent_of Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE high Hesiod Theogony 912-914: Zeus and Demeter parents of Persephone. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY approved  
3479 Phersipnai ENT_ETR_PHERSIPNAI syncretized_with Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE high The Etruscan Persephone. De Grummond, Nancy Thomson. Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend (University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2006) SRC_DEGRUMMOND_ETRUSCAN reviewed  
6408 WitchTok / Online Neopagan Devotion ENT_VF_WITCHTOK reception_of Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE high Persephone is one of the most popular WitchTok deities for transformation/underworld work; contemporary devotional reception. Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World (2020) SRC_BURTON_STRANGE_RITES reviewed  
7375 Daeira ENT_MYST_DAEIRA identified_with Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE medium Ancient sources variously identify the Eleusinian Daeira with Persephone. Walter Burkert, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, trans. John Raffan (Harvard University Press, 1985; original German: Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche, 1977) SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION reviewed  
7388 Axiokersa ENT_MYST_AXIOKERSA equated_with Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE medium Ancient scholia identify the Samothracian Axiokersa with Persephone. Susan Guettel Cole, Theoi Megaloi: The Cult of the Great Gods at Samothrace (EPRO 96, Brill, 1984) SRC_COLE_THEOI_MEGALOI 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]);