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)'}

4 rows where subject_entity_id = "ENT_SAINT_MARY"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
1473 Mary Theotokos ENT_SAINT_MARY reception_of Isis ENT_EGY_ISIS medium Mary Theotokos as the Christian reception — primarily iconographic — of the Isis tradition; nursing-mother imagery, Queen of Heaven title, star-crown, mourning at divine son's death all transmitted from Isis to Mary in Late Antique Egyptian Christianity. Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (De Iside et Osiride, c. 100–120 CE) SRC_PLUTARCH_ISIS_OSIRIS reviewed Patristic Period PER_PATRISTIC
1750 Mary Theotokos ENT_SAINT_MARY parent_of Jesus Christ ENT_JESUS_CHRIST high New Testament (Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:31-35): Mary conceives Jesus by the Holy Spirit and gives birth. New Testament (primary text; Greek: Nestle-Aland 28th ed.; citations by book, chapter, and verse) SRC_NEW_TESTAMENT approved  
1757 Mary Theotokos ENT_SAINT_MARY parent_of ʿĪsā ibn Maryam ENT_ISL_ISA high Quran 19:22-27 (Sura Maryam): Maryam conceives ʿĪsā by divine command and gives birth. Qur’an SRC_QURAN approved  
8032 Mary Theotokos ENT_SAINT_MARY reception_of Isis Lactans ENT_ISIS_LACTANS medium Maria lactans iconography paralleling Isis lactans (scholarly debate on direct influence); Higgins, Divine Mothers. Sabrina Higgins, "Divine Mothers: The Influence of Isis on the Virgin Mary in Egyptian Lactans-Iconography," Journal of the Canadian Society for Coptic Studies 3-4 (2012): 71-90 SRC_HIGGINS_DIVINE_MOTHERS reviewed Late Antiquity PER_LATE_ANTIQUE

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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]);