Relationships
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_VERMASEREN_CYBELE_ATTIS"
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| relationship_id ▼ | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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]);