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 period_id = "PER_GRK_MYCENAEAN"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1558 Potnia ENT_MYC_POTNIA received_as Athena ENT_ATHENA high The Linear B tablet KN V 52 from Knossos reads "a-ta-na po-ti-ni-ja" — Athana Potnia, "Lady Athena" — making this the earliest certain attestation of the Greek goddess Athena, and establishing her origin within the Mycenaean Potnia tradition. The unqualified Potnia ("the Mistress") is the generic form; "Athana Potnia" is the Knossos localization. This means Athena began as a Potnia-type great goddess and later differentiated from the Potnia collective into a distinct deity with her own name and iconographic identity in the post-Dark-Age period. Burkert (1985) treats this as one of the clearest cases of Mycenaean-to-Classical religious continuity. Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1973) SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK reviewed Mycenaean Period PER_GRK_MYCENAEAN
1559 Athena ENT_ATHENA reception_of Potnia ENT_MYC_POTNIA high Athena as the Classical Greek differentiation of the Mycenaean Potnia tradition; "Athana Potnia" at Knossos KN V 52 is the earliest attestation; the goddess named and cult-defined independently in the post-Dark-Age period. Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1973) SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK reviewed Mycenaean Period PER_GRK_MYCENAEAN
1560 Diwia ENT_MYC_DIWIA received_as Dione ENT_DIONE medium The Linear B di-u-ja (Diwia) and the Classical Dione share the same derivation: both are the transparent feminine form of the Zeus-name (Proto-Greek *Diw-os → Diwia in Linear B; Dios → Dione in Classical Greek, using the -ōnē suffix). Dione appears in Homer (Iliad 5.370-417) as Zeus's consort on Olympus, where she comforts Aphrodite after her wounding — a role that suggests she is a survival of an older tradition rather than a narrative creation. Her cult at Dodona (one of the oldest Greek oracular sanctuaries) as Zeus's consort preserves what the Linear B Diwia represents: a major independent goddess who was progressively subordinated as Zeus's divine sovereignty was consolidated in the post-Dark-Age period. Confidence medium rather than high because the continuous cult identity between Mycenaean Diwia and Classical Dione cannot be directly documented through texts. Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1973) SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK reviewed Mycenaean Period PER_GRK_MYCENAEAN
1561 Dione ENT_DIONE reception_of Diwia ENT_MYC_DIWIA medium Classical Dione as the Iron Age / Archaic survival of the Mycenaean Diwia (feminine Zeus); her role as Zeus's consort at Dodona preserves the older independent goddess status of the Linear B deity. Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1973) SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK reviewed Mycenaean Period PER_GRK_MYCENAEAN

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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]);