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.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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

2 rows where entity_id = "ENT_FINN_LOUHI"

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Link entity_id source_id evidence_type source_note
ENT_FINN_LOUHI,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation Louhi ENT_FINN_LOUHI 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 Runos 5-8 (Väinämöinen arrives in Pohjola and negotiates the Sampo bride-price), 10-11 (Ilmarinen forges the Sampo for Louhi), 30-38 (the heroes steal the Sampo; Louhi pursues), 42-49 (Louhi steals sun and moon; Ukko restores them). The most plot-active deity in the Kalevala after Väinämöinen.
ENT_FINN_LOUHI,SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA,scholarly attestation Louhi ENT_FINN_LOUHI Juha Pentikäinen, Kalevala Mythology, trans. Ritva Poom (Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, 1999) SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA scholarly attestation Pentikäinen (1999) pp. 220-260: Louhi as shamanistic authority of the North; the Pohjola mytheme as the hostile otherworld; Louhi's shape-shifting (eagle-hawk form); the Sampo as axis mundi / cosmic wealth; ambivalent characterization as mother and antagonist.

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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]);