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_ROM_SATURN"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1516 Baal Hammon ENT_PHO_BAAL_HAMMON received_as Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN medium Diodorus Siculus 20.14 explicitly calls the god of Carthage to whom children were sacrificed "Kronos," using the Greek name for Saturn. In Roman North Africa, Baal Hammon was worshipped as Saturnus Africanus; thousands of votive stelae to Saturnus from Roman North Africa continue the Baal Hammon tradition. Tertullian (Apology 9) identifies "Saturnus" as the North African deity who receives child sacrifice. The molk rite — child sacrifice to Baal Hammon — persisted in the Saturnus Africanus cult in vestigial forms. The identification reflects shared chthonic and agricultural associations: both Saturn/Kronos and Baal Hammon are associated with time, the cycles of harvest, and the demands of divine sovereignty. Confidence medium because the theological mapping is partially opportunistic (Roman interpretatio) rather than purely functional. Glenn Markoe, Phoenicians (London: British Museum Press / University of California Press, 2000) SRC_MARKOE_PHOENICIANS reviewed Roman Imperial PER_ROM_IMPERIAL
2463 Ops ENT_ITA_OPS spouse_of Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN high Ops is the standard divine consort of Saturn in Roman religious tradition: Macrobius (Saturnalia 1.10.19-20) explains that "Ops and Saturn are thought to be the same as heaven and earth" and pairs their cult. The December Saturnalia (17-23 Dec.) and Opalia (19 Dec.) are co-located, as are the August Consualia-Opiconsivia cluster. Ops thus functions both as Saturn's consort and as the personification of the earth's stored abundance in complementary relationship to Saturn as the celestial ordering principle. Varro, LL VI.21. Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God) SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ reviewed Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC
2923 Ops ENT_ITA_OPS consort_of Saturn ENT_ROM_SATURN high Ops is the consort of Saturn. Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum (c. 47 BCE, surviving via Augustine City of God) SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ 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]);