Entity Sources

2,936 links between entities and the sources that attest them, with evidence type and passage-level notes. The primary evidence layer: every entity classification traces to at least one record here.

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{'description': 'e.g. Direct attestation, Secondary analysis, Epigraphic, Numismatic'}
source_note
{'description': 'Specific passage citations and notes on how this source attests the entity'}

3 rows where entity_id = "ENT_FINN_AHTI"

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ENT_FINN_AHTI,SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER,direct attestation Ahti ENT_FINN_AHTI Mikael Agricola, Se Wsi Testamenti (The New Testament) and Psalttari (Finnish Psalter), 1548/1551; deity list in the Psalter introduction (Rucouskiria, 1544) SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER direct attestation Agricola 1551 Psalter prologue: Ahti named in the Häme deity list: "Ahti gave fish and water creatures." Earliest written attestation of Ahti by name.
ENT_FINN_AHTI,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation Ahti ENT_FINN_AHTI Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala (Kalevala taikka vanhoja Karjalan runoja Suomen kansan muinosista ajoista), expanded edition 1849; trans. Keith Bosley (Oxford World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1989) SRC_KALEVALA direct attestation Kalevala Runo 42-49: Ahti/Ahto and his wife Vellamo in the underwater realm Ahtola; the sea journey sequence; invocations of Ahti by fishermen. Also Runo 6 (Väinämöinen falls into Ahti's sea).
ENT_FINN_AHTI,SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA,scholarly attestation Ahti ENT_FINN_AHTI Juha Pentikäinen, Kalevala Mythology, trans. Ritva Poom (Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, 1999) SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA scholarly attestation Pentikäinen (1999) pp. 105-120: Ahti as water deity; the Ahtola underwater realm; Vellamo as co-ruler; the fisherman's cult and ritual offerings; Finnic parallels in Estonian and Votic water deity traditions.

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CREATE TABLE "entity_sources" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [source_id] TEXT REFERENCES [sources]([source_id]),
   [evidence_type] TEXT,
   [source_note] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [source_id], [evidence_type])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_source_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([source_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_sources_entity_id]
    ON [entity_sources] ([entity_id]);