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)'}

3 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_PHO_MELQART"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1506 Baal Hadad ENT_CAN_BAAL received_as Melqart ENT_PHO_MELQART medium Melqart ("king of the city") is the Iron Age Phoenician development of the Bronze Age Baal/Hadad storm-and-kingship deity tradition from Ugarit. The "Baal of Tyre" condemned in 1 Kings 16:31 (the god of Ahab's Sidonian wife Jezebel) is identified with Melqart by scholars (Markoe 2000, Cross 1973). The dying-and-rising element of Melqart — his annual egersis (awakening) rite documented in Menander of Ephesus (via Josephus, Against Apion 1.118-119) — continues the Dumuzi/Tammuz dying-deity pattern that entered Phoenicia from Mesopotamia. The continuity between Baal (Ugaritic Bronze Age) and Melqart (Tyrian Iron Age) is strong but the Iron Age deity has a distinct city identity, making this a received_as relationship rather than a simple continuation. Glenn Markoe, Phoenicians (London: British Museum Press / University of California Press, 2000) SRC_MARKOE_PHOENICIANS reviewed Phoenician Iron Age PER_PHO_IRON_AGE
1508 Dumuzi/Tammuz ENT_MES_DUMUZI_TAMMUZ aligned_with Melqart ENT_PHO_MELQART low 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. Glenn Markoe, Phoenicians (London: British Museum Press / University of California Press, 2000) SRC_MARKOE_PHOENICIANS reviewed Phoenician Iron Age PER_PHO_IRON_AGE
1511 Heracles ENT_HERACLES reception_of Melqart ENT_PHO_MELQART high Heracles as the Greek reception of Tyrian Melqart; Herodotus 2.44 documents the Phoenician original explicitly; lion-skin, club, colonial foundation, and dying-apotheosis narrative all transmit from Melqart to the Greek hero complex. Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC

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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]);