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)'}

23 rows where source_id = "SRC_OVID_FASTI"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
2126 Quirinus ENT_ROM_QUIRINUS reception_of Mars ENT_ROM_MARS medium Ovid Fasti 2.475-512 and Livy 1.16: Romulus was identified with Quirinus after his deification; some Roman scholars also identified Quirinus with Mars as the two patron war-gods of the city, though this is contested. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI approved  
2256 Apollo ENT_APOLLO patron_of Sibyl ENT_SIBYL high The Sibyls (notably the Cumaean Sibyl) prophesy through the gift of Apollo; Ovid Metamorphoses 14.130-155 tells how Apollo offered the Sibyl anything she wished and she chose long life. Apollo is the source and patron of sibylline prophecy. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI approved  
2257 Sibyl ENT_SIBYL reveals Apollo ENT_APOLLO high The Sibyl reveals and transmits Apollo's prophecies; she is his earthly mouthpiece, uttering oracles in a state of divine possession by the god. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI approved  
2259 Trivia ENT_TRIVIA reception_of Hecate ENT_HECATE high Trivia ("Three Roads") is the Latin epithet and functional reception of the Greek Hecate as goddess of crossroads; Ovid Metamorphoses 7.177 calls Hecate "Trivia," and the Aeneid 6.13 treats them as the same deity under different names. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI approved  
2461 Faunus ENT_ITA_FAUNUS aligned_with Pan ENT_PAN high Roman writers explicitly identified Faunus with the Greek Pan: Cicero (De Natura Deorum 2.6) calls Pan the "Faunus" of the Greeks; Ovid (Fasti 2.267-270) explicitly compares and equates the two. Both deities are prophetic, goat-footed (in some traditions), associated with wildlands and shepherds, and attached to a major initiatory festival (Lupercalia/Pan-Greek Paneia). The identification is so complete that Roman mythographers treated them as interchangeable. Confidence high: explicit ancient identification. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC
2462 Picus ENT_ITA_PICUS aligned_with Mars ENT_ROM_MARS medium The Picus Martius (woodpecker of Mars) is the specifically sacred bird of Mars in Roman augury. Ovid (Fasti 3.37-54) makes this connection explicit: the woodpecker is Mars's sacred bird because of its pecking/hammering action (associated with the war god's energy) and because the woodpecker Picus shares Mars's prophetic augural role. Pliny (NH 10.20) notes that Roman augury treated the woodpecker's behavior as directly communicating divine will. The identification of Picus the deity with Picus the bird of Mars suggests that the deity Picus may originally have been the personification or hypostasis of Mars's augural bird — i.e., Picus is the divine patron of the woodpecker's augural speech. Confidence medium: the connection is functional/cultic rather than a narrative identification. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC
2465 Silvanus ENT_ITA_SILVANUS aligned_with Faunus ENT_ITA_FAUNUS medium Silvanus and Faunus are the two principal Italic deities of the wildlands, often grouped together in Roman texts as complementary figures of the rural, uncultivated world. Faunus presides over the prophetic voices and pastoral wildlands; Silvanus guards the forest boundaries and woodlands. Ovid (Fasti 5.99-102) places them in parallel in the context of rural Italian religion. Their cults are structurally analogous (both have no formal temple of the highest grade in the city center; both receive purely votive cult in the countryside) and their functional domains overlap in the silva/saltus zone. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC
2466 Carmenta ENT_ITA_CARMENTA aligned_with Hermes ENT_HERMES medium Ovid (Fasti 1.469-474) and Livy (AUC 1.7.8) make Carmenta/Carmentis the mother of Evander, with Mercury/Hermes as Evander's father. This makes Carmenta the consort of Hermes in the Latin tradition of the Arcadian migration to Italy, linking the Italian prophetess-goddess directly to the Greek god of speech, prophecy, and transmission — an appropriate pairing for a deity of prophetic carmen (song/speech). The alignment is structural: Carmenta presides over prophetic speech (carmen) in the Latin sphere as Hermes presides over communication and divine messages in the Greek sphere. Ovid Fasti 1.469-474. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC
2468 Flora ENT_ITA_FLORA aligned_with Demeter ENT_DEMETER low Flora and Demeter share the domain of agricultural vegetation and seasonal fertility: Demeter presides over grain and the fruitfulness of cultivated fields; Flora presides over flowering plants and the spring bloom that precedes harvest. The structural parallel is noted by ancient writers who pair them as complementary seasonal goddesses. However, the identification is weaker than Faunus/Pan or Ops/Saturn: Flora was not systematically equated with Demeter in the way other Roman deities were matched with Greek counterparts. Ovid (Fasti 5.195-372) emphasizes Flora's Greek identity as Chloris rather than as Demeter/Ceres, and Ceres is the primary Roman equivalent of Demeter. Confidence low: functional/domain parallel, not explicit ancient identification. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC
2469 Flora ENT_ITA_FLORA aligned_with Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES medium Flora and Ceres are complementary Roman agricultural deities: Ceres presides over grain cultivation and the staple crops; Flora presides over the flowering plants and spring bloom that announces the growing season. Their Floralia (28 April) and the Cerealia (19 April) fall within days of each other in the Roman festival calendar, and both are associated with abundance, fertility, and the plebeian festival calendar. Ovid (Fasti 4-5) treats their festivals consecutively, implying a conceptual pairing. The alignment is functional rather than mythological: they are not identified as the same deity but belong to the same domain cluster of vegetation and fertility. Ovid Fasti 4 (Cerealia) and 5 (Floralia). Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed Archaic Italic (c. 900–509 BCE) PER_ITA_ARCHAIC
2903 Fortuna ENT_ROM_FORTUNA embodies Fortune ENT_FORTUNE high Fortuna is the deified Fortune. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
2904 Tellus ENT_ROM_TELLUS embodies Earth ENT_EARTH high Tellus Mater is the deified Earth. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
2919 Pax ENT_ROM_PAX aligned_with Divus Augustus ENT_ROM_DIVUS_AUGUSTUS medium Pax is the Augustan peace, consecrated at the Ara Pacis Augustae. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3375 Cardea ENT_ROM_CARDEA presided_over_by Janus ENT_ROM_JANUS high Hinge goddess under Janus, lord of doors. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3378 Summanus ENT_ROM_SUMMANUS paired_with Jupiter ENT_ROM_JUPITER medium God of nocturnal thunder, the night counterpart of Jupiter. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3380 Robigus ENT_ROM_ROBIGUS presided_over_by Ceres ENT_ROM_CERES medium Averts rust from the crop of Ceres. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3534 Vesta ENT_ROM_VESTA embodies Fire ENT_FIRE high Vesta is the sacred hearth-fire. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3543 Vertumnus ENT_ROM_VERTUMNUS consort_of Pomona ENT_ROM_POMONA high Vertumnus and Pomona, the classic orchard-deity couple. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3568 Robigus ENT_ROM_ROBIGUS patron_of Agriculture ENT_AGRICULTURE high Averter of wheat-rust. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3572 Pales ENT_ROM_PALES patron_of Agriculture ENT_AGRICULTURE medium Pastoral deity of flocks and herding. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3573 Pomona ENT_ROM_POMONA patron_of Agriculture ENT_AGRICULTURE high Goddess of fruit trees and orchards. Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
3863 Carna ENT_ROM_CARNA presides_over Healing ENT_HEALING medium Goddess guarding the heart and bodily health Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  
8024 Vacuna ENT_ROM_VACUNA equated_with Victoria ENT_ROM_VICTORIA medium The Sabine goddess Vacuna was identified by Varro with Victoria (also with Diana/Ceres). Ovid, Fasti SRC_OVID_FASTI reviewed  

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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]);