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_TYPHON"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1482 Ullikummi ENT_HTT_ULLIKUMMI received_as Typhon ENT_TYPHON medium The Song of Ullikummi and Hesiod's Typhon narrative share the same plot structure: (1) the defeated predecessor deity (Kumarbi/defeated Titans, or Gaia acting on behalf of the old order) creates a monstrous adversary; (2) the monster grows to threaten heaven and challenge the storm god champion; (3) the champion (Teshub/Zeus) must struggle to defeat the monster. West (1997) pp. 300-302 makes this parallel explicit. In both myths, the monster's defeat marks the final establishment of the current divine order. Confidence medium because the narrative parallels are strong but the transmission mechanism is indirect (probably via Anatolian-Ionian contact rather than direct textual borrowing). 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
1494 Tiamat ENT_MES_TIAMAT aligned_with Typhon ENT_TYPHON 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. Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992) SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
7865 Echidna ENT_MON_ECHIDNA paired_with Typhon ENT_TYPHON high Hesiod, Theog. 306-308: Echidna couples with Typhon (Typhaon) to bear the monster brood. paired_with (not consort_of, which is not a valid type). Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY reviewed  
8027 Devil ENT_CHR_DEVIL reception_of Typhon ENT_TYPHON medium Combat-myth (chaoskampf) dragon-adversary underlying the Christian dragon-Satan (Rev. 12); Forsyth, The Old Enemy. Neil Forsyth, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (Princeton University Press, 1987) SRC_FORSYTH_OLD_ENEMY reviewed Late Antiquity PER_LATE_ANTIQUE

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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]);