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_SELENE"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1598 Nanna/Sin ENT_MES_NANNA_SIN aligned_with Selene ENT_SELENE 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. Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC
1683 Hyperion ENT_HYPERION parent_of Selene ENT_SELENE high Hesiod Theogony 371-374. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY approved  
1686 Theia ENT_THEIA parent_of Selene ENT_SELENE high Hesiod Theogony 371-374. Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY approved  
2174 Bendis ENT_BENDIS equated_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium Bendis the Thracian moon goddess was equated not only with Artemis but also with Selene as a lunar deity; her torch-bearing cult imagery overlaps with Selene's iconography. Theoi Daemones/personifications index SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES approved  
2175 Mên ENT_M_N equated_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium Mên is an Anatolian moon god absorbed into Hellenistic Greek worship; as a lunar deity he is conventionally associated with Selene and the Greek moon tradition. His cult was centred in Phrygia and Lydia but spread to Attica and Phrygia. Theoi Daemones/personifications index SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES approved  
4241 Spirit of the Moon (al-Qamar) ENT_AST_MOON_SPIRIT aligned_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium The Picatrix lunar spirit is the astral-magic functional cognate of the Greek moon-goddess Selene. Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim), trans. Greer & Warnock; ed. Pingree SRC_PICATRIX reviewed  
4725 Chashmodai ENT_REN_CHASHMODAI aligned_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium Chashmodai embodies the raw force of the Moon (Greek Selene). Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres (1533) — incl. the Scale of Seven (Bk II.10) SRC_AGRIPPA_OCCULTA reviewed  
4826 Malkah be-Tarshishim ve-ad Ruachoth Schechalim ENT_REN_MALKAH_BE_TARSHISHIM aligned_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium Malkah be-Tarshishim governs the Moon, whose Greek planetary deity is Selene. Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tres (1533) — incl. the Scale of Seven (Bk II.10) SRC_AGRIPPA_OCCULTA reviewed  
4890 Phul ENT_REN_PHUL aligned_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium Phul is the Olympic Spirit of the Moon (Greek Selene). Arbatel de magia veterum (Basel, 1575) — the seven Olympic Spirits SRC_ARBATEL reviewed  
6636 Sin (the Moon) of Harran [Sabian cult-phase] ENT_HRN_SIN_MOON equated_with Selene ENT_SELENE high Greco-Roman interpretatio identified the Harranian Moon with Selene (Green). Tamara M. Green, The City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran SRC_GREEN_MOON_GOD reviewed  
7619 The Triple Goddess (Maiden, Mother, Crone) ENT_WIC_TRIPLE_GODDESS aligned_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium The lunar Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess aligns with the Greek moon goddess Selene, the full-moon face of the triad. 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]);