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)'}

2 rows where source_id = "SRC_VAN_BLADEL_ARABIC_HERMES"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1436 Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS received_as Idris ENT_ISL_IDRIS medium Islamic philosophers from the 9th century onward identified Hermes Trismegistus with the Quranic prophet Idris, creating "Hermes-Idris" as the Islamic primordial sage of wisdom, alchemy, and the natural sciences. Jabir ibn Hayyan, al-Kindi, and the Sabian astronomical tradition of Harran all contributed to this identification. The pseudo-Magriti text Ghayat al-Hakim and later writers on Islamic occult philosophy elaborate Idris-Hermes as the originator of every science. Van Bladel 2009 traces this in detail. Confidence medium: the identification is certain in the philosophical tradition, but represents an interpretation layered onto the Quranic Idris, not a direct Quranic claim. Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science (Oxford University Press, 2009) SRC_VAN_BLADEL_ARABIC_HERMES reviewed Classical Islam PER_ISL_CLASSICAL
1437 Idris ENT_ISL_IDRIS reception_of Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS medium Idris as Islamic reception of Hermes Trismegistus in Islamic-Hermetic philosophical tradition; identified by 9th-12th century Islamic thinkers as the primordial prophet of wisdom, alchemy, and the sciences. Kevin van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes: From Pagan Sage to Prophet of Science (Oxford University Press, 2009) SRC_VAN_BLADEL_ARABIC_HERMES reviewed Classical Islam PER_ISL_CLASSICAL

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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]);