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_MYC_ENYALIOS"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1562 Enyalios ENT_MYC_ENYALIOS received_as Ares ENT_ARES medium Pylos tablet PY Tn 316 — the most important Mycenaean religious text, listing offering recipients at a crisis moment before the palace's destruction c. 1180 BCE — lists both E-nu-wa-ri-jo (Enyalius) and A-re (Ares) as separate recipients, establishing they were distinct war deities in Mycenaean religion. In the Classical period, Enyalius (Enyalios) persists primarily as an epithet of Ares and as a battle-cry formula; however, some Classical sources still treat Enyalius as distinct (Pindar Olympian 13.102; the separate cult title at some sanctuaries). The transition from independent deity to epithet is the Mycenaean-to-Classical merger: Enyalius's identity and cult were absorbed into the dominant Ares figure in the post-Dark-Age consolidation of the Greek war-deity tradition. Michael Ventris and John Chadwick, Documents in Mycenaean Greek, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1973) SRC_VENTRIS_CHADWICK reviewed Greek Dark Age PER_GRK_DARK_AGE
6011 Enyalios ENT_MYC_ENYALIOS member_of The Mycenaean Pantheon ENT_MYC_PANTHEON high Distinct Mycenaean war deity, cult-recipient on PY Tn 316; pantheon membership. Walter Burkert, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, trans. John Raffan (Harvard University Press, 1985; original German: Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche, 1977) SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION reviewed  
6012 Enyalios ENT_MYC_ENYALIOS received_as Enyo ENT_ENYO medium e-nu-wa-ri-jo survives in Classical Greek chiefly as Enyalios; Enyo/Enyalios preserves the war-personification line. Walter Burkert, Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical, trans. John Raffan (Harvard University Press, 1985; original German: Griechische Religion der archaischen und klassischen Epoche, 1977) SRC_BURKERT_GREEK_RELIGION 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]);