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_ISR_ADAM"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1554 Adam ENT_ISR_ADAM received_as Adam Kadmon ENT_JM_ADAM_KADMON medium The Kabbalistic Adam Kadmon ("primordial Adam") is a cosmological elaboration of the biblical Adam's creation "in the image of God" (tselem elohim; Genesis 1:26-27). In Lurianic Kabbalah (Isaac Luria, 16th century Safed), Adam Kadmon is the first configuration of divine light that emerges after the tzimtzum (divine contraction) and the shevirat ha-kelim (breaking of the vessels) — a vast primordial being whose bodily structure maps onto the ten sefirot. The concept takes the tselem elohim formula with cosmological literalism: if the earthly Adam was made in God's image, then the divine "image" itself must be an Adam-form. The biblical Adam is thus the earthly reflection of the cosmic primordial human. Scholem (1974) traces the Adam Kadmon concept through Neoplatonic, Gnostic, and Kabbalistic strata. Gershom Scholem, Kabbalah SRC_SCHOLEM_KABBALAH reviewed Second Temple Period PER_ISR_SECOND_TEMPLE
1556 Adam ENT_ISR_ADAM received_as Adamas ENT_SET_ADAMAS medium The Sethian Gnostic Adamas / Geradamas is the Gnostic critical reception of the biblical Adam. In Sethian cosmology (as in the Apocryphon of John, Nag Hammadi II,1 and parallel texts), a perfect luminous "Adam" (Adamas) exists in the Pleroma; the earthly Adam of Genesis 2-3 is a degraded copy manufactured by the Demiurge and the archons, who use the divine image as their template ("let us make man in our image" in Genesis 1:26 is reinterpreted as the archons's imitative act). The name Adamas preserves the Hebrew 'adam directly. This is a subversive or critical reception rather than a simple transmission: the Gnostic texts systematically invert the value judgments of Genesis (the creator is malevolent; the serpent is a liberator; the transgression was salvific rather than a fall), while the narrative structure remains dependent on Genesis 1-6. Marvin Meyer, The Gnostic Bible SRC_MEYER_GNOSTIC_BIBLE reviewed Second Temple Period PER_ISR_SECOND_TEMPLE
4953 Adam ENT_ISR_ADAM spouse_of Eve ENT_ISR_EVE high Genesis 2-4: Eve is formed as Adam's wife. John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination SRC_2TJ_COLLINS reviewed  
4954 Adam ENT_ISR_ADAM parent_of Cain ENT_ISR_CAIN high Genesis 4:1. John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination SRC_2TJ_COLLINS reviewed  
4955 Adam ENT_ISR_ADAM parent_of Abel ENT_ISR_ABEL high Genesis 4:2. John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination SRC_2TJ_COLLINS reviewed  
4956 Adam ENT_ISR_ADAM parent_of Seth ENT_ISR_SETH high Genesis 4:25; 5:3. John J. Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination SRC_2TJ_COLLINS reviewed  

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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]);