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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).

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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)'}

42 rows where source_id = "SRC_NHC"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
595 Sabaoth ENT_GNO_SABAOTH rules Archons ENT_GNO_ARCHONS medium Sabaoth is an archontic ruler figure, sometimes repentant/elevated. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
599 Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL cult_form_of Demiurge ENT_GNO_DEMIURGE medium Samael is a demiurgic/adversarial name in some Gnostic traditions. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
600 Yaldabaoth ENT_GNO_YALDABAOTH cult_form_of Demiurge ENT_GNO_DEMIURGE medium Yaldabaoth is a named demiurgic ruler in Sethian/Ophite traditions. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
601 Saklas ENT_GNO_SAKLAS cult_form_of Demiurge ENT_GNO_DEMIURGE medium Saklas is a name/title of the ignorant demiurgic ruler. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
609 Harmozel ENT_SET_HARMOZEL member_of Aeons ENT_GNO_AEONS high Harmozel is a Sethian luminary/aeon. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
610 Oroiael ENT_SET_OROIAEL member_of Aeons ENT_GNO_AEONS high Oroiael is a Sethian luminary/aeon. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
611 Daveithe ENT_SET_DAVEITHE member_of Aeons ENT_GNO_AEONS high Daveithe is a Sethian luminary/aeon. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
612 Eleleth ENT_SET_ELELETH member_of Aeons ENT_GNO_AEONS high Eleleth is a Sethian luminary/aeon. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
613 Autogenes ENT_SET_AUTOGENES member_of Aeons ENT_GNO_AEONS high Autogenes is an aeonic figure. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
614 Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO member_of Aeons ENT_GNO_AEONS high Barbelo belongs to the aeonic divine realm. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
615 Geradamas ENT_SET_GERADAMAS identified_with Anthropos ENT_GNO_ANTHROPOS high Geradamas is a primordial heavenly Adam/human figure. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
616 Adamas ENT_SET_ADAMAS identified_with Anthropos ENT_GNO_ANTHROPOS medium Adamas overlaps with the heavenly human/primordial human pattern. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
617 Norea ENT_SET_NOREA opposes Archons ENT_GNO_ARCHONS medium Norea resists archontic powers in related traditions. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
619 Autogenes ENT_SET_AUTOGENES emanates_from Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO high Autogenes is closely associated with Barbelo in Sethian emanation structures. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
620 Four Luminaries ENT_SET_FOUR_LUMINARIES has_member Daveithe ENT_SET_DAVEITHE high Daveithe is one of the Four Luminaries. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
621 Four Luminaries ENT_SET_FOUR_LUMINARIES has_member Eleleth ENT_SET_ELELETH high Eleleth is one of the Four Luminaries. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
622 Four Luminaries ENT_SET_FOUR_LUMINARIES has_member Harmozel ENT_SET_HARMOZEL high Harmozel is one of the Four Luminaries. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
623 Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO emanates_from Monad ENT_GNO_MONAD high Barbelo is the first emanation/thought from the transcendent source in Sethian systems. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
624 Four Luminaries ENT_SET_FOUR_LUMINARIES has_member Oroiael ENT_SET_OROIAEL high Oroiael is one of the Four Luminaries. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
625 Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO dwells_in Pleroma ENT_GNO_PLEROMA high Barbelo belongs to the pleromatic divine realm. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
626 Eleleth ENT_SET_ELELETH reveals Revelation ENT_REVELATION medium Eleleth functions as a revelatory instructor in some Sethian texts. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
627 Epinoia ENT_SET_EPINNOIA reveals Revelation ENT_REVELATION medium Epinoia functions as illuminating insight or awakening. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
629 Seth ENT_SET_SETH parent_of Seed of Seth ENT_SET_SEED_OF_SETH high The Seed of Seth is the spiritual/elect lineage associated with Seth. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
631 Epinoia ENT_SET_EPINNOIA embodies Wisdom ENT_WISDOM medium Epinoia/afterthought overlaps with insight, awakening, and wisdom motifs. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
692 Living Jesus ENT_THO_LIVING_JESUS identified_with Christ ENT_GNO_CHRIST medium Living Jesus overlaps with Christic revealer traditions while remaining text-specific. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
693 Thomas ENT_THO_THOMAS teaches Living Jesus ENT_THO_LIVING_JESUS high The Gospel of Thomas frames Thomas as recipient of the hidden sayings of the living Jesus. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
695 Living Jesus ENT_THO_LIVING_JESUS reveals Revelation ENT_REVELATION high Living Jesus functions as revealer of hidden sayings. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
697 Thomas ENT_THO_THOMAS identified_with Twin ENT_THO_TWIN high Thomas/Didymus is associated with twin identity. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
698 Solitary ENT_THO_SOLITARY associated_ritual Union ENT_UNION medium The solitary/single one may symbolize integration or restored unity. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
1307 Kingdom ENT_THO_KINGDOM embodies Salvation ENT_SALVATION medium The Kingdom functions soteriologically in Thomasine tradition, embodying the goal of salvation. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
1320 Norea ENT_SET_NOREA undergoes_process Salvation ENT_SALVATION medium Norea undergoes salvation in Sethian tradition, resisting archontic powers and being revealed. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
1322 Serpent ENT_OPH_SERPENT reveals Forbidden Knowledge ENT_FORBIDDEN_KNOWLEDGE medium The Ophite serpent actively reveals forbidden/hidden knowledge in Eden reinterpretation traditions. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
1324 Youel ENT_SET_YOUEL emanates_from Barbelo ENT_SET_BARBELO medium Youel emanates from or is closely associated with Barbelo traditions in Sethian texts. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
1325 Bridal Chamber ENT_VAL_BRIDAL_CHAMBER symbolizes Salvation ENT_SALVATION medium The Valentinian bridal chamber sacrament symbolizes union and restoration; it is the ritual enactment of salvation. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed  
1761 Christ ENT_GNO_CHRIST reception_of Jesus Christ ENT_JESUS_CHRIST high Nag Hammadi Library passim: Gnostic texts draw on and radically reinterpret the Jesus tradition, positing a docetic/pneumatic Christ who merely appeared to suffer. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC approved  
1763 Living Jesus ENT_THO_LIVING_JESUS reception_of Jesus Christ ENT_JESUS_CHRIST high Gospel of Thomas incipit (NHC II,2): "These are the hidden words which the living Jesus spoke." The Living Jesus is the Thomasine reception of the Jesus tradition. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC approved  
2129 Ennoia ENT_VAL_ENNOIA emanates_from Bythos ENT_VAL_BYTHOS medium In Valentinian variants that treat Ennoia as the first emission of Bythos rather than his co-eternal companion, she is the primordial Thought emitted by the Forefather before the full Pleroma unfolds. Cf. Nag Hammadi tractates; SRC_NHC. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC approved  
2410 Spenta Armaiti ENT_ZOR_SPENTA_ARMATI aligned_with Sophia ENT_GNO_SOPHIA medium Spenta Armaiti ("Holy Devotion" / "Bounteous Piety") is the sole feminine Amesha Spenta — described as the daughter of Ahura Mazda in Yasna 45.4, governing the domains of earth (her physical correlate), piety, and holy devotion. She represents the divine feminine principle within the Zoroastrian divine emanation structure, combining wisdom-as-devotion with earth-mother function. Gnostic Sophia ("Wisdom") is the supreme feminine divine aeon in both Valentinian and Sethian Gnostic cosmologies (Apocryphon of John, NHC II,1; Trimorphic Protennoia, NHC XIII,1): the last of the Pleroma aeons in Valentinianism, whose unsanctioned creative act precipitates material creation; the divine mother figure whose consort/fall is cosmogonically central. The alignment is grounded in their shared status as the feminine divine wisdom/devotion figure within an emanatory divine hierarchy (Ahura Mazda → 6 Amesha Spentas; Supreme Father → 30 aeons). Confidence medium: the parallel is structural/typological; the Gnostic Sophia's role is more cosmogonically catastrophic than Spenta Armaiti's, and the traditions developed independently. Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures (1987) pp. 267-303; Boyce (1982) p. 71. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH
2412 Ameretat ENT_ZOR_AMERETAT aligned_with Zoe ENT_GNO_ZOE medium Ameretat ("Immortality" — from Avestan a-mereta, "without death") is the Amesha Spenta of immortality and plants: his physical correlate is vegetation (which embodies perpetual renewal and thus the principle of deathlessness), and he governs the blessed immortality awaiting the righteous at the renovation of the world (Frashokereti). Gnostic Zoe ("Life") appears as one of the divine luminaries/aeons in Sethian Gnostic texts including the Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1: Zoe is one of the four lights), On the Origin of the World (NHC II,5: Zoe is the divine life principle), and Trimorphic Protennoia. The semantic alignment is the most direct available between an Amesha Spenta and a Gnostic aeon: Ameretat = "without-death" = immortality = life without end; Zoe = "Life." Both function within emanatory divine hierarchies as the positive life-principle standing in opposition to death and darkness (Ameretat opposes Zairika, the demoness of aging; Zoe stands against the death-principle in material creation). Confidence medium: the correspondence is semantic and structural but the traditions developed independently; the Gnostic Zoe's cosmological function differs from Ameretat's eschatological role. Layton (1987) pp. 23-51; Boyce (1982) p. 79. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH
2436 Yaldabaoth ENT_GNO_YALDABAOTH identified_with Saklas ENT_GNO_SAKLAS high "Saklas" (Aramaic: "fool") is one of three names given to Yaldabaoth in Sethian texts: Yaldabaoth ("Child of chaos"), Saklas ("Fool"), and Samael ("Blind god"). Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1:11): "He is imperfect compared to the immortal father, for he is not perfect... He said to his fellows, 'I am God and no other god exists except me.' But by saying this, he showed the angels who were with him that there is another god; for if there were no other one, of whom would he be jealous?" The name Saklas most directly expresses his defining characteristic — ignorance/foolishness — in contrast to the Gnostic divine Nous (Mind). NHC II,1. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH
2437 Yaldabaoth ENT_GNO_YALDABAOTH aligned_with Samael ENT_GNO_SAMAEL high "Samael" ("Blind god") is the third name given to Yaldabaoth in Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1): his names are Yaldabaoth, Saklas, and Samael. In Sethian cosmology, Samael refers to his blindness to the divine world above him (he sees only the material realm and his own creation); in Jewish tradition Samael is the chief adversarial angel. The identification equates the Gnostic chief Archon with the Jewish demonic adversary, positioning Yaldabaoth as both the material creator and the divine opponent. This identification is one of the sharpest theological provocations in Sethian Gnostic theology — equating the creator God of the Hebrew Bible with the adversary. NHC II,1. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH
2438 Yaldabaoth ENT_GNO_YALDABAOTH opposes Sophia ENT_GNO_SOPHIA medium Yaldabaoth, as the product of Sophia's/Achamoth's imperfect creation, is structurally opposed to Sophia throughout the Gnostic cosmological drama: Sophia's divine spark (pneuma) is trapped within the material creation that Yaldabaoth rules, and the task of the Gnostic savior is to release this pneuma from Yaldabaoth's material prison. In Sethian texts (Apocryphon of John, NHC II,1; Hypostasis of the Archons, NHC II,4), Yaldabaoth's rule is the antagonist to Sophia's redemptive movement. Confidence medium: the relationship is structural/thematic throughout Gnostic cosmology; the specific narrative interactions vary by text. Nag Hammadi Library SRC_NHC reviewed Gnostic and Neoplatonic (2nd–4th c.) PER_GNO_2ND_4TH

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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]);
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