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)'}

7 rows where period_id = "PER_HER_HELLENISTIC"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1334 Hermes ENT_HERMES received_as Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS high Greek Hermes received as Hermes Trismegistus in the Hellenistic Greco-Egyptian synthesis; his attributes (psychopomp, messenger, patron of wisdom) were merged with Egyptian Thoth. Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC
1335 Thoth ENT_EGY_THOTH received_as Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS high Egyptian Thoth received as Hermes Trismegistus in Hellenistic interpretatio; Thoth's roles as scribe, wisdom deity, and master of magic were absorbed into the Hermetic figure. Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC
1341 Agathos Daimon ENT_AGATHOS_DAIMON received_as Agathos Daimon ENT_LAT_AGATHOS_DAIMON_HERMETIC medium Greek household Agathos Daimon received into the Hermetic tradition as a revealer figure and cosmic spirit; appears in Corpus Hermeticum as an interlocutor. Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC
1342 Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS reception_of Hermes ENT_HERMES high Hermes Trismegistus is the Hermetic reception of Greek Hermes. Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC
1343 Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS reception_of Thoth ENT_EGY_THOTH high Hermes Trismegistus is the Hermetic reception of Egyptian Thoth. Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC
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
1599 Selene ENT_SELENE aligned_with Nanna/Sin ENT_MES_NANNA_SIN low Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Jeremy Black and Anthony Green, Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia SRC_BLACK_GREEN_MESO reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC

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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]);