Relationships
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)'}
6 rows where period_id = "PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD"
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| relationship_id ▼ | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1574 | Neith ENT_EGY_NEITH | received_as | Athena ENT_ATHENA | high | Herodotus explicitly equates Neith with Athena in two passages: at 2.28 he identifies the goddess of Sais as Athena, and at 2.59 he names the great festival at Sais as belonging to Athena (= Neith). The equation is supported by shared attributes: both are warrior goddesses associated with weaving, wisdom, and craftsmanship; both have the owl as a sacred animal in some traditions; both are depicted with shield and spear. The famous inscription at Sais — "I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and none among mortals has yet uncovered my robe" — was transmitted to the Greek world through this Neith-Athena identification. The identification is one of the best-documented Egyptian→Greek deity equations in the ancient sources. | Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | reviewed | Late Period PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD |
| 1575 | Athena ENT_ATHENA | reception_of | Neith ENT_EGY_NEITH | high | Athena as the Greek reception of the Egyptian Neith of Sais; Herodotus 2.28, 2.59 make the identification explicit; shared warrior-weaver-wisdom attributes. | Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | reviewed | Late Period PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD |
| 1576 | Ptah ENT_EGY_PTAH | received_as | Hephaestus ENT_HEPHAESTUS | high | Herodotus explicitly equates Ptah with Hephaestus at 3.37, where he refers to the temple of Ptah at Memphis as the temple of Hephaestus: "the temple of Hephaestus" (= Ptah) at Memphis is where Cambyses committed his sacrilege. Memphis itself was sometimes called "Hephaestia" by Greek writers. The equation rests on shared craftsmanship and creation attributes: Ptah is the divine craftsman and creator-by-word in Egyptian theology; Hephaestus is the divine craftsman and smith of the Greek pantheon. Both are associated with fire, metalwork, and the creative power to fashion divine objects. The identification was widespread in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods. | Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | reviewed | Late Period PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD |
| 1577 | Hephaestus ENT_HEPHAESTUS | reception_of | Ptah ENT_EGY_PTAH | high | Hephaestus as the Greek reception of the Egyptian Ptah; Herodotus 3.37 explicit; shared craftsman-creator attributes; Memphis = "Hephaestia" in Greek usage. | Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | reviewed | Late Period PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD |
| 1578 | Min ENT_EGY_MIN | received_as | Pan ENT_PAN | high | Herodotus makes the Min-Pan identification explicit at 2.46: "in Egypt, Pan is reckoned one of the eight gods who are of the earliest rank" — this refers to Min, the ithyphallic deity of Coptos and Akhmim, who was identified by Greek visitors as Pan. The equation rests on: (1) Min's conspicuous ithyphallism, which Greek observers associated with Pan's fertility and sexuality; (2) Min's association with the desert and with wild spaces parallel to Pan's domain; (3) the Egyptian goat cult at Mendes that Herodotus also describes in 2.46 may have reinforced the equation via the goat association of Pan. The identification became standard in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods; the Greco-Roman city of Akhmim (ancient Ipu/Khent-Abt, Min's cult center) was called Panopolis (City of Pan) by the Greeks. | Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | reviewed | Late Period PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD |
| 1579 | Pan ENT_PAN | reception_of | Min ENT_EGY_MIN | high | Pan as the Greek reception of the Egyptian Min; Herodotus 2.46 explicit; ithyphallic fertility deity equation; Min's city Akhmim became Panopolis in the Greco-Roman period. | Herodotus, Histories (c. 430 BCE) SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES | reviewed | Late Period PER_EGY_LATE_PERIOD |
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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]);