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_SLAV_ROD"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
2400 Rod ENT_SLAV_ROD aligned_with Zeus ENT_ZEUS medium Rod functions as the supreme ancestral creator deity of the Slavic tradition — he governs birth, destiny, and divine ancestry — a structural role cognate with Zeus's position as sovereign sky-father. Medieval Russian ecclesiastical sources (the "Words Against Paganism," 10th–12th century) attack the cult of "Rod and the Rozhanitsy" (Rod's feminine birth-fate companions) as a persistent rival to Christianity, suggesting Rod occupied the highest rung of the pre-Perun Slavic divine hierarchy. Rybakov (Yazychestvo drevnikh slavyan, 1981) identifies Rod as the primordial supreme deity of Slavic religion, whose cult was marginalized but not eliminated when Vladimir I elevated Perun to state pantheon head in 980 CE. The Zeus alignment is recognized in comparative Indo-European studies as the standard parallel for Slavic supreme creator deities. Confidence medium: the Rod alignment with Zeus is structural/comparative, not explicit in ancient sources; Rod's cult is reconstructed from anti-pagan polemical texts whose theological claims require critical filtration. Brückner (1918) s.v. "Rod." Aleksander Brückner, Mitologia Słowiańska i Polska (Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza, Krakow, 1918; repr. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw, 1980) SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH reviewed Slavic Pre-Christian Period PER_SLAV_PAGAN
2491 Rod ENT_SLAV_ROD patron_of Fate ENT_FATE medium Rod, the ancestral birth-deity, is paired with the Rozhanitsy (fate-spinners) who allot each newborn's destiny; condemned in Old Slavic ecclesiastical texts. Aleksander Brückner, Mitologia Słowiańska i Polska (Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza, Krakow, 1918; repr. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw, 1980) SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH reviewed  
5602 Rod ENT_SLAV_ROD member_of The Slavic Pantheon ENT_SLAV_PANTHEON medium Rod is a Slavic ancestral/birth deity attested in the homiletic tradition. Aleksander Brückner, Mitologia Słowiańska i Polska (Krakowska Spółka Wydawnicza, Krakow, 1918; repr. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw, 1980) SRC_BRUCKNER_SLAVIC_MYTH 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]);