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_HTT_EMPIRE"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1474 Teshub ENT_HTT_TESHUB identified_with Tarhunna ENT_HTT_TARHUNNA high The Hurrian storm god Teshub and the Hittite storm god Tarhunna are closely identified throughout the syncretized Hittite-Hurrian religious tradition. At the Yazilikaya open-air sanctuary (c. 1250 BCE), the two traditions' storm deities appear together, effectively as the same divine power under different names. Hittite treaty texts and prayers use the names interchangeably or in paired formulae. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE
1475 Tarhunna ENT_HTT_TARHUNNA identified_with Teshub ENT_HTT_TESHUB high Tarhunna as the Hittite name of the storm deity identified with the Hurrian Teshub; both are the chief storm gods of their respective traditions and merged in Hittite-Hurrian syncretic religion. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE
1476 Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR identified_with Shaushka ENT_HTT_SHAUSHKA high Hittite religious texts explicitly call Shaushka "Ishtar of Nineveh" and "Ishtar of Samuha," demonstrating a direct identification rather than mere structural parallel. The Myth of Shaushka and Hedammu and treaty texts from the Hittite empire routinely use the two names as equivalents. Shaushka is the Hurrian reception of the Mesopotamian love/war goddess complex, transmitting the Inanna/Ishtar tradition into Anatolian religion. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE
1477 Shaushka ENT_HTT_SHAUSHKA identified_with Inanna/Ishtar ENT_MES_INANNA_ISHTAR high Shaushka as the Hurrian reception of Mesopotamian Inanna/Ishtar; Hittite texts call her "Ishtar of Nineveh" and "Ishtar of Samuha"; the identification is explicit in the primary sources. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE
1536 Dumuzi/Tammuz ENT_MES_DUMUZI_TAMMUZ aligned_with Telipinu ENT_HTT_TELIPINU 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. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE
1537 Telipinu ENT_HTT_TELIPINU reception_of Dumuzi/Tammuz ENT_MES_DUMUZI_TAMMUZ low The Hittite Telipinu vanishing-deity pattern as a possible reception of the older Mesopotamian Dumuzi/Tammuz dying-vegetation-deity tradition; structural parallel rather than documented transmission. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE
1538 Inaras ENT_HTT_INARAS guides Tarhunna ENT_HTT_TARHUNNA high In the first version of the Illuyanka myth (CTH 321 §§1-8), Inaras devises and executes the strategy that allows Tarhunna (the storm god) to defeat Illuyanka: she prepares the feast that lures the serpent into vulnerability and recruits the mortal Hupasiya to bind him. Tarhunna's victory over Illuyanka is explicitly enabled by Inaras's cunning rather than the storm god's direct power alone. Harry A. Hoffner Jr., Hittite Myths, 2nd ed. (Society of Biblical Literature, 1998) SRC_HOFFNER_HITTITE_MYTHS reviewed Hittite Empire Period PER_HTT_EMPIRE

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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]);