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)'}

3 rows where subject_entity_id = "ENT_BENDIS"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
2173 Bendis ENT_BENDIS equated_with Artemis ENT_ARTEMIS high Plato Republic 327a: the opening scene describes the festival of Bendis in Piraeus; she was a Thracian goddess equated with Artemis by Athenian interpreters and admitted to the Piraeus cult in the 5th c. BCE. Theoi Daemones/personifications index SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES approved  
2174 Bendis ENT_BENDIS equated_with Selene ENT_SELENE medium Bendis the Thracian moon goddess was equated not only with Artemis but also with Selene as a lunar deity; her torch-bearing cult imagery overlaps with Selene's iconography. Theoi Daemones/personifications index SRC_THEOI_DAIMONES approved  
2318 Bendis ENT_BENDIS equated_with Hecate ENT_HECATE medium Thracian Bendis is equated with Hecate in some ancient sources alongside the primary Artemis equation; both are nocturnal lunar hunting deities. Archibald (1998) ch. 8 notes the Hecate equation in Athenian votive material. Confidence medium: Artemis equation is primary, Hecate secondary. Zosia H. Archibald, The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace: Orpheus Unmasked (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998) SRC_ARCHIBALD_ODRYSIAN reviewed Thracian Iron Age and Classical Period PER_THRA_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]);