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)'}

22 rows where source_id = "SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1478 Kumarbi ENT_HTT_KUMARBI received_as Kronos ENT_KRONOS high The Kumarbi→Kronos parallel is the centerpiece of West's (1997) argument for Near Eastern influence on Hesiod's Theogony. Both deities share an exact structural role: (1) they overthrow the ruling sky deity by biting/castrating the genitals (Kumarbi bites off Anu's genitals; Kronos castrates Ouranos with a sickle); (2) they absorb divine seed and become pregnant with the deity who will overthrow them; (3) they are themselves defeated by the storm deity son (Teshub/Zeus). This three-stage narrative is unique to the Kumarbi cycle among Near Eastern texts and uniquely explains why Hesiod's Theogony has the same three-stage structure. Transmission most likely via Anatolian-Greek contact in the 8th-7th c. BCE. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1479 Kronos ENT_KRONOS reception_of Kumarbi ENT_HTT_KUMARBI high Kronos as the Greek reception of the Hurrian Kumarbi succession deity; the sky-god castration narrative in Hesiod's Theogony is best explained by the Kumarbi cycle tradition transmitted via Anatolian contact. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1480 Teshub ENT_HTT_TESHUB received_as Zeus ENT_ZEUS high Teshub and Zeus share the role of the storm deity champion who defeats a monstrous adversary (Ullikummi/Typhon) and the usurper predecessor (Kumarbi/Kronos) to establish the current divine order. West (1997) documents that the narrative structure of Zeus's ascent in Hesiod's Theogony follows the Kumarbi cycle more closely than any other Near Eastern text. Both Teshub and Zeus also create an ordered cosmos out of the pre-existing chaos. The transmission pathway runs through Anatolian-Ionian Greek contact in the Archaic period. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1481 Zeus ENT_ZEUS reception_of Teshub ENT_HTT_TESHUB high Zeus as the Greek reception of the Hurrian/Hittite Teshub tradition — the storm deity who defeats both the monstrous chaos figure and the preceding ruler to establish the current divine order. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1482 Ullikummi ENT_HTT_ULLIKUMMI received_as Typhon ENT_TYPHON medium The Song of Ullikummi and Hesiod's Typhon narrative share the same plot structure: (1) the defeated predecessor deity (Kumarbi/defeated Titans, or Gaia acting on behalf of the old order) creates a monstrous adversary; (2) the monster grows to threaten heaven and challenge the storm god champion; (3) the champion (Teshub/Zeus) must struggle to defeat the monster. West (1997) pp. 300-302 makes this parallel explicit. In both myths, the monster's defeat marks the final establishment of the current divine order. Confidence medium because the narrative parallels are strong but the transmission mechanism is indirect (probably via Anatolian-Ionian contact rather than direct textual borrowing). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1483 Typhon ENT_TYPHON reception_of Ullikummi ENT_HTT_ULLIKUMMI medium Typhon as the Greek reception of the Ullikummi tradition — the chaos monster created by the old order to challenge the new divine champion, whose defeat finally establishes cosmic order. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1484 Hepat ENT_HTT_HEPAT received_as Hera ENT_HERA medium Hepat and Hera share the role of queen of heaven and consort of the chief deity (Teshub/Zeus). At Yazilikaya, Hepat stands opposite Teshub as his divine equal — a role that parallels Hera's position as Zeus's queen. Hepat is also called "queen of heaven" (DINGIR.MAH or similar in Hittite texts) before the same title was applied to Hera and later to Isis and Mary. West (1997) includes the Hepat-Hera parallel among the Anatolian-Greek transmission chain, though with less textual specificity than the Kumarbi-Kronos pair. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1485 Hera ENT_HERA reception_of Hepat ENT_HTT_HEPAT medium Hera as the Greek reception of the Hurrian queen of heaven Hepat; shared role as wife and consort of the chief storm deity, and as queen of the divine assembly. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1488 Anu ENT_MES_ANU aligned_with Ouranos ENT_OURANOS medium Functional/typological cognate (no attested diffusion of the Mesopotamian deity into the later cult); per Burkert/West the real transmission, where any, runs through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1489 Ouranos ENT_OURANOS aligned_with Anu ENT_MES_ANU medium Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1492 Enlil ENT_MES_ENLIL aligned_with Zeus ENT_ZEUS low Functional/typological cognate (no attested diffusion of the Mesopotamian deity into the later cult); per Burkert/West the real transmission, where any, runs through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1493 Zeus ENT_ZEUS aligned_with Enlil ENT_MES_ENLIL low Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1496 Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL aligned_with Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE medium Functional/typological cognate (no attested diffusion of the Mesopotamian deity into the later cult); per Burkert/West the real transmission, where any, runs through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1497 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE aligned_with Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL medium Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1498 Apsu ENT_MES_APSU aligned_with Oceanus ENT_OCEANUS medium Functional/typological cognate (no attested diffusion of the Mesopotamian deity into the later cult); per Burkert/West the real transmission, where any, runs through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1499 Oceanus ENT_OCEANUS aligned_with Apsu ENT_MES_APSU medium Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1532 Resheph ENT_CAN_RESHEPH received_as Apollo ENT_APOLLO medium The Resheph→Apollo transmission is one of the better-documented Levantine→Greek deity parallels. Both share: (1) plague as primary domain — Resheph personifies pestilence (Hab. 3:5 has him flanking Yahweh alongside Deber/Plague); Apollo's arrows bring plague in the Iliad (1.43-52); (2) the bow as the weapon of disease; (3) a dual role sending AND ending plague (Apollo Apotropaios, the "averter," parallels Resheph's role as the deity who could be propitiated to stop pestilence); (4) a Cypriot connection — Resheph was worshipped at Kition on Cyprus (bilingual Phoenician-Greek inscriptions call him "Apollo") and Cyprus was a major transmission node for Levantine→Greek religious contact. West (1997) treats the Resheph-Apollo parallel as one of the most solidly attested Levantine→Archaic Greek deity connections. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1533 Apollo ENT_APOLLO reception_of Resheph ENT_CAN_RESHEPH medium Apollo as the Greek reception of the Levantine Resheph plague-deity complex; Cypriot bilingual inscriptions explicitly equate the two; bow-and-arrow plague, dual send/avert function, and Cypriot cult are the transmission vectors. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1534 Telipinu ENT_HTT_TELIPINU received_as Demeter ENT_DEMETER low The Telipinu vanishing-deity myth and the Demeter/Kore myth share the same narrative logic: (1) a deity associated with vegetation and fertility withdraws or disappears; (2) all crops, animals, and fertility fail during the absence; (3) the divine community searches and eventually recovers the missing deity; (4) fertility and life return with the deity's restoration. West (1997) identifies the Telipinu myth as the Hittite version of this pan-Near Eastern pattern, and treats it as a probable intermediate between the Mesopotamian Dumuzi/Tammuz dying-deity narrative and the Greek Demeter/Persephone myth. The transmission route would be through Anatolian-Greek contact in the Archaic period. Confidence low because the Telipinu myth has the deity vanishing in anger (not dying or being abducted), which is structurally slightly different from Persephone's abduction by Hades; the convergence is in the effect (vegetation fails) rather than the mechanism. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1535 Demeter ENT_DEMETER aligned_with Telipinu ENT_HTT_TELIPINU low Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1600 Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA aligned_with Prometheus ENT_PROMETHEUS low Functional/typological cognate (no attested diffusion of the Mesopotamian deity into the later cult); per Burkert/West the real transmission, where any, runs through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries. Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1601 Prometheus ENT_PROMETHEUS aligned_with Enki/Ea ENT_MES_ENKI_EA low Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC

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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]);