Relationships
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- 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)'}
13 rows where period_id = "PER_BALT_PAGAN"
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| relationship_id ▼ | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2283 | Perkūnas ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS | opposes | Velnias ENT_BALT_VELNIAS | high | The central Baltic mythological narrative: Perkūnas (thunder) pursues Velnias (chthonic) who steals cattle or a solar being and hides below the earth or in trees. Perkūnas shatters hiding places with lightning. Attested in dozens of Lithuanian folk songs and reconstructed comparatively. Greimas (1992) pp. 77-120; Gimbutas (1963) p. 200. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2284 | Velnias ENT_BALT_VELNIAS | opposed_by | Perkūnas ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS | high | Velnias is the chthonic antagonist of Perkūnas in the cosmic battle myth; he flees into the earth, trees, and water to escape Perkūnas's lightning. Greimas (1992) pp. 121-150. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2285 | Dievas ENT_BALT_DIEVAS | paired_with | Laima ENT_BALT_LAIMA | medium | Dievas and Laima together dispense fate in the Lithuanian folk narrative; they are sometimes depicted as partners who decide human destiny. Greimas (1992) pp. 57-75; Gimbutas (1963) p. 202. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2286 | Saulė ENT_BALT_SAULE | paired_with | Meness ENT_BALT_MENESS | high | Sun and moon are divine partners in the Baltic celestial myth; their marriage and subsequent troubled relationship (Meness's infidelity with the morning star) judged by Perkūnas, who splits Meness with his sword — explaining the moon's phases. Greimas (1992) pp. 188-250. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2287 | Meness ENT_BALT_MENESS | paired_with | Saulė ENT_BALT_SAULE | high | Moon is paired with the sun goddess Saulė in the celestial myth cycle; their separation is adjudicated by Perkūnas. Greimas (1992) pp. 221-250. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2288 | Perkūnas ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS | judges | Meness ENT_BALT_MENESS | high | In the celestial myth, Perkūnas judges the moon guilty of unfaithfulness to Saulė and splits him with a sword, explaining the waning moon. This is one of the most widely attested narrative elements in Baltic folk song. Greimas (1992) pp. 221-250. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2289 | Gabija ENT_BALT_GABIJA | embodies | Fire ENT_FIRE | high | Gabija is the personification of the sacred hearth fire; the fire IS Gabija, not merely her symbol. Gimbutas (1963) pp. 204-205. | Marija Gimbutas, The Balts (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963) SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2290 | Žemyna ENT_BALT_ZEMYNA | embodies | Earth ENT_EARTH | high | Žemyna is the personification of the earth itself; libations poured on the ground go directly to her. Gimbutas (1963) p. 205. | Marija Gimbutas, The Balts (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963) SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2291 | Perkūnas ENT_BALT_PERKUNAS | aligned_with | Thor ENT_NOR_THOR | high | Perkūnas and Thor are cognate thunder deities: both wield the thunder weapon against a serpentine or giant antagonist, both protect the ordered world from chthonic chaos. The PIE *perkʷ- (oak/thunder) root and the structural myth parallel are well established. Gimbutas (1963) p. 199; Greimas (1992) pp. 77-84. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2292 | Dievas ENT_BALT_DIEVAS | aligned_with | Zeus ENT_ZEUS | high | Dievas and Zeus are cognate sky-father deities from PIE *Dyēus; both govern cosmic order and are the supreme divine rulers in their respective traditions. Gimbutas (1963) p. 197; comparative IE evidence. | Marija Gimbutas, The Balts (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963) SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2293 | Velnias ENT_BALT_VELNIAS | aligned_with | Hel ENT_NOR_HEL | medium | Velnias governs the Baltic realm of the dead (vėlės) as a chthonic divine being, functionally parallel to Hel's underworld rule; the parallel is structural (lord of the dead) rather than etymological. Gimbutas (1963) p. 200. | Marija Gimbutas, The Balts (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963) SRC_GIMBUTAS_BALTS | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2401 | Ragana ENT_BALT_RAGANA | opposes | Laima ENT_BALT_LAIMA | medium | In Lithuanian folk religion and demonology, Ragana and Laima represent opposing principles of fate: Laima is the benevolent fate-goddess who determines the duration and fortune of a human life at birth, while Ragana embodies the dark, inversive principle — the witch who harms newborns, causes illness, curdles milk, and brings misfortune. This opposition is documented extensively in Lithuanian folk songs (dainos), folk tale collections, and in the post-Reformation Lithuanian ecclesiastical surveys that catalogue surviving pagan customs. The Ragana/Laima opposition is structurally parallel to the universal mythological contrast between beneficent fate goddess and malevolent death/illness spirit. Greimas, Of Gods and Men (1992) pp. 58-77. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
| 2402 | Ragana ENT_BALT_RAGANA | aligned_with | Hecate ENT_HECATE | medium | Ragana and Hecate share a cluster of defining attributes that make them the clearest structural parallel across the Baltic and Greek traditions: both are nocturnal sorceress figures associated with crossroads, the moon, shape-shifting, death, and the ambiguous boundary between the living and the dead. Ragana appears in Lithuanian folklore as a shape-shifting witch who travels at night, transforms into animals (especially cats and birds), and is associated with harmful magic and infant death — parallels to Hecate as Chthonia (underworld goddess), Trioditis (crossroads deity), and the patron of witchcraft invoked in Greek magical papyri. Neither figure is a straightforward "goddess of witches" in her origin tradition (Hecate has a complex Titaness origin; Ragana may derive from an earlier supernatural female figure), but their convergent role in folk magic, nocturnal danger, and death boundary makes the alignment structurally sound. Confidence medium: the parallel is typological, not genetic; no direct historical connection exists between Lithuanian and Greek traditions. Greimas (1992) p. 73. | Algirdas Julien Greimas, Of Gods and Men: Studies in Lithuanian Mythology (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992; trans. Milda Newman and Joseph Fitzgerald) SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN | reviewed | Baltic Pre-Christian Period PER_BALT_PAGAN |
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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]);