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)'}

5 rows where subject_entity_id = "ENT_VOD_LEGBA"

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relationship_id ▼ subject_entity_id relationship_type object_entity_id confidence rationale source_id review_status period_id
7909 Papa Legba ENT_VOD_LEGBA member_of The Lwa ENT_VOD_LWA high Papa Legba is a lwa. Joseph M. Murphy, Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora (Beacon Press, 1994) SRC_MURPHY_WORKING_SPIRIT reviewed  
7910 Papa Legba ENT_VOD_LEGBA member_of Rada nanchon ENT_VOD_RADA high Legba is served as a Rada lwa, saluted first in ceremony (Métraux). Joseph M. Murphy, Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora (Beacon Press, 1994) SRC_MURPHY_WORKING_SPIRIT reviewed  
7929 Papa Legba ENT_VOD_LEGBA syncretized_with Peter ENT_SAINT_PETER high Papa Legba, keeper of the gates, is popularly identified with St Peter (the keys) in Vodou chromolithography (Métraux; Murphy). Joseph M. Murphy, Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora (Beacon Press, 1994) SRC_MURPHY_WORKING_SPIRIT reviewed  
7930 Papa Legba ENT_VOD_LEGBA syncretized_with Lazarus of Bethany ENT_NT_LAZARUS_BETHANY medium In some lineages the aged, crutch-bearing Legba is imaged as St Lazarus (Métraux). Joseph M. Murphy, Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora (Beacon Press, 1994) SRC_MURPHY_WORKING_SPIRIT reviewed  
7931 Papa Legba ENT_VOD_LEGBA aligned_with Anthony of Padua ENT_SAINT_ANTHONY_PADUA medium St Anthony of Padua is also documented as a chromolithographic image for Legba in parts of Haiti (Métraux). Joseph M. Murphy, Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora (Beacon Press, 1994) SRC_MURPHY_WORKING_SPIRIT 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]);