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)'}

7 rows where subject_entity_id = "ENT_PERSEPHONE"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
326 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE belongs_to_realm Dead ENT_DEAD high Persephone is queen of the underworld and associated with the dead. Theoi Greek Gods category index SRC_THEOI_GODS reviewed  
1497 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE aligned_with Ereshkigal ENT_MES_ERESHKIGAL medium Functional/typological cognate, not an attested reception (the cosmic-sovereignty/chaos parallels route through Hurrian-Hittite intermediaries or are modern comparisons; Burkert, West). Martin L. West, The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997) SRC_WEST_EAST_HELICON reviewed Archaic Period PER_GRK_ARCHAIC
1721 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE spouse_of Hades ENT_HADES high Homeric Hymn to Demeter 2.3: Hades (Aidoneus) carried off Persephone as wife. Homeric Hymns (7th-5th century BCE); trans. M.L. West, Homeric Hymns (Loeb Classical Library 496, Harvard 2003) SRC_HOMERIC_HYMNS approved  
2207 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE parent_of Melinoe ENT_MELINOE high Orphic Hymn 71 (To Melinoe): "You were born near the mouth of the Cocytus, from Persephone"; Melinoe is the daughter of Persephone and Zeus (or Hades). Theoi Underworld Gods index SRC_THEOI_UNDERWORLD approved  
2210 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE opposes Minthe ENT_MINTHE high Strabo Geography 8.3.14: Persephone transformed Minthe (Hades's beloved) into the mint plant out of jealousy. Theoi Underworld Gods index SRC_THEOI_UNDERWORLD approved  
7372 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE presides_over Eleusinian Mysteries (cult hub) ENT_MYST_ELEUSINIAN high Persephone (Kore) is the central abducted-and-returned goddess of the Eleusinian cult. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY reviewed  
7805 Persephone ENT_PERSEPHONE rules The Greek Underworld (House of Hades) ENT_GRR_UNDERWORLD high Persephone reigns as queen of the underworld alongside Hades (Homer Odyssey 10-11; Homeric Hymn to Demeter). Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008) SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY 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]);