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)'}

3 rows where period_id = "PER_PHRYG_IRON_AGE"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
2384 Matar Kubileya ENT_PHRYG_MATAR reception_of Kubaba ENT_LUW_KUBABA high The Phrygian "Matar Kubileya" (Mother Kubileya) directly incorporates the name Kubaba of Carchemish in her epithet "Kubileya" — the phonological shift Kubaba → Kubileya is a regular Phrygian adaptation of the Luwian theonym. This is one of the most etymologically secure deity receptions in Anatolian religious history. The transmission route is geographic: the Luwian/Neo-Hittite states of SE Anatolia (principally Carchemish) bordered and influenced the Phrygian highlands, and the adoption of Kubaba's name and enthroned-queen-with-lion iconography into the Phrygian Matar tradition is consistent with the archaeological and linguistic evidence. Combined with the already-existing ENT_CYBELE reception_of ENT_PHRYG_MATAR, this relationship completes the chain: Kubaba → Matar Kubileya → Cybele. Roller (1999) pp. 67-79; Taracha (2009) p. 194. Roller, Lynn E. In Search of God the Mother: The Cult of Anatolian Cybele (University of California Press, 1999) SRC_ROLLER_CYBELE reviewed Phrygian Iron Age PER_PHRYG_IRON_AGE
2385 Attis ENT_ATTIS paired_with Matar Kubileya ENT_PHRYG_MATAR high Attis is the consort and beloved of Matar Kubileya in the Phrygian tradition — their pairing is the theological foundation of the Cybele-Attis mystery cult. In the Pessinuntine myth Attis is the beautiful youth whom Cybele/Matar loves; his self-castration and death is the wound at the cult's emotional center, and the annual mourning and resurrection rites re-enact the divine pair's tragedy and renewal. Roller (1999) pp. 139-165; Vermaseren (1977) pp. 90-110. M.J. Vermaseren, Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult, trans. A.M.H. Lemmers (Thames and Hudson, London, 1977) SRC_VERMASEREN_CYBELE_ATTIS reviewed Phrygian Iron Age PER_PHRYG_IRON_AGE
2386 Attis ENT_ATTIS aligned_with Dionysus ENT_DIONYSUS medium Attis and Dionysus are structurally parallel as dying-and-rising vegetation deities whose mystery cults share key elements: ecstatic mourning rites, dismemberment/castration as the divine wound, a resurrection narrative that grounds the initiates' hope for personal renewal, and a passionate divine attendant group (Galli ~ Maenads). Firmicus Maternus (De Errore Profanarum Religionum 3.1, 4th c. CE) explicitly pairs the two cults in his polemic against mystery religions, reflecting their ancient perceived parallelism. Confidence medium: no ancient text explicitly equates them, but the parallel structure is widely recognized in ancient commentary and modern scholarship. Vermaseren (1977) p. 185. M.J. Vermaseren, Cybele and Attis: The Myth and the Cult, trans. A.M.H. Lemmers (Thames and Hudson, London, 1977) SRC_VERMASEREN_CYBELE_ATTIS reviewed Phrygian Iron Age PER_PHRYG_IRON_AGE

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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]);