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)'}

4 rows where object_entity_id = "ENT_SAB_ATHTAR"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1539 Astarte ENT_CAN_ASTARTE received_as Athtar ENT_SAB_ATHTAR low The South Arabian Athtar and the Canaanite Astarte/Ugaritic ʿAttar share the same etymological root (the proto-Semitic *ʿAttar- base) and the planet Venus as their primary celestial association. The Ugaritic ʿAttar (masculine) who temporarily sits on Baal's throne and is deemed too small for it (KTU 1.6 I 53-65) represents the masculine form of the Venus deity that South Arabian Athtar preserves. The gender divergence — Astarte is female, Athtar is male — reflects either an early Semitic tradition that was later feminized in the Levantine context, or independent masculine and feminine developments from a common ancestral deity. Cross (1973) treats them as related variants of the same root deity. Confidence low: the name cognate is certain; the precise transmission direction and mechanism are debated. Frank Moore Cross, Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic (Harvard University Press, 1973) SRC_CROSS_CANAANITE_MYTH reviewed Sabaean and South Arabian Period PER_SABAEAN
1544 Al-Uzza ENT_ARA_AL_UZZA reception_of Athtar ENT_SAB_ATHTAR low Al-Uzza as the North Arabian reception of the Venus deity tradition from the broader Semitic world including South Arabian Athtar; feminized form of the masculine South Arabian Venus deity. Robert G. Hoyland, Arabia and the Arabs: From the Bronze Age to the Coming of Islam (Routledge, 2001) SRC_HOYLAND_ARABIA reviewed Pre-Islamic Arabia (Jahiliyyah) PER_ARA_PRE_ISLAMIC
3494 Athtar ENT_CAN_ATHTAR aligned_with Athtar ENT_SAB_ATHTAR medium The Ugaritic and South Arabian Athtar are reflexes of the common Semitic Venus-god. Mark S. Smith, The Ugaritic Baal Cycle (Brill, 1994-2009) / The Origins of Biblical Monotheism (OUP, 2001) SRC_SMITH_UGARITIC_BAAL reviewed  
4359 Astar ENT_AKS_ASTAR equated_with Athtar ENT_SAB_ATHTAR high Aksumite Astar is the reflex of South-Arabian ʿAthtar. Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilisation of Late Antiquity SRC_MUNRO_HAY_AKSUM 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]);