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_EGY_ATUM"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
248 Atum ENT_EGY_ATUM cult_form_of Ra ENT_EGY_RA medium Atum is an evening/creator solar form related to Ra in solar theology. Richard H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS reviewed  
1564 Atum ENT_EGY_ATUM parent_of Shu ENT_EGY_SHU high Pyramid Texts Utterance 600: Atum spat out Shu ("who spat out Shu, who expectorated Tefnut") from Heliopolis. Also PT 527, 1248 describe Atum creating Shu and Tefnut by masturbation (the "hand of Atum" tradition). Atum as the creator of the first divine pair Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture) is the foundational act of the Heliopolitan cosmogony and the root of the Ennead genealogy. R. O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Oxford University Press, 1969; repr. Aris & Phillips, 1998) SRC_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS reviewed Old Kingdom PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM
1565 Atum ENT_EGY_ATUM parent_of Tefnut ENT_EGY_TEFNUT high Pyramid Texts Utterance 600: Atum expectorated Tefnut alongside Shu. Tefnut (moisture/cosmic order) is the twin of Shu and the second generation of the Ennead; both are products of Atum's creative act at the primordial moment on the Benben hill of Heliopolis. R. O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts (Oxford University Press, 1969; repr. Aris & Phillips, 1998) SRC_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS reviewed Old Kingdom PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM

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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]);