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)'}

6 rows where subject_entity_id = "ENT_HERMES"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
362 Hermes ENT_HERMES patron_of Magic ENT_MAGIC medium Hermes appears in magical, liminal, and mediating contexts. Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS reviewed  
1334 Hermes ENT_HERMES received_as Hermes Trismegistus ENT_HER_TRISMEGISTUS high Greek Hermes received as Hermes Trismegistus in the Hellenistic Greco-Egyptian synthesis; his attributes (psychopomp, messenger, patron of wisdom) were merged with Egyptian Thoth. Corpus Hermeticum SRC_CORPUS_HERMETICUM reviewed Hermetic Hellenistic Period PER_HER_HELLENISTIC
1462 Hermes ENT_HERMES received_as Hermanubis ENT_SYN_HERMANUBIS high Hermes as the Greek psychopomp fused with Anubis in the Greco-Egyptian Hermanubis; the fusion is grounded in the identical function of conducting souls of the dead. Hermes Psychopomp + Anubis = Hermanubis, documented in Ptolemaic inscriptions, Greek magical papyri, and Plutarch. Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (De Iside et Osiride, c. 100–120 CE) SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS reviewed Hellenistic Period PER_GRK_HELLENISTIC
1501 Hermes ENT_HERMES aligned_with Nabu ENT_MES_NABU medium Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Walter Burkert, The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age (Harvard University Press, 1992) SRC_BURKERT_ORIENT_REV reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
2013 Hermes ENT_HERMES parent_of Hermaphroditus ENT_HERMAPHRODITUS high Diodorus Siculus 4.6.5: Hermaphroditos was born of Hermes and Aphrodite, combining the attributes of both parents; his name is a compound of theirs. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY approved  
2184 Hermes ENT_HERMES opposes Chelone ENT_CHELONE high The myth of Chelone: she refused to attend the wedding of Zeus and Hera, and Hermes punished her by transforming her into a tortoise (chelone), condemned to carry her house on her back. Theoi Nymphs. Theoi Nymphs index SRC_THEOI_NYMPHS approved  

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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]);