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'}

3 rows where entity_id = "ENT_FINN_TAPIO"

✎ View and edit SQL

This data as json, CSV (advanced)

Suggested facets: evidence_type

Link entity_id source_id evidence_type source_note
ENT_FINN_TAPIO,SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER,direct attestation Tapio ENT_FINN_TAPIO 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: Tapio named in the Häme deity list as the deity of forest game. Earliest written attestation of Tapio by name.
ENT_FINN_TAPIO,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation Tapio ENT_FINN_TAPIO 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 14, 32, 46: invocations to Tapio for successful hunting; description of the forest realm Tapiola; Tapio as the lord whose permission hunters must seek before entering the forest.
ENT_FINN_TAPIO,SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA,scholarly attestation Tapio ENT_FINN_TAPIO Juha Pentikäinen, Kalevala Mythology, trans. Ritva Poom (Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, 1999) SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA scholarly attestation Pentikäinen (1999) pp. 140-155: the Finnish hunter cult and its deities; Tapio and Mielikki as co-rulers of Tapiola; ritual invocations (pyyntiluvat, hunting permissions); the forest as sacred domain.

Advanced export

JSON shape: default, array, newline-delimited, object

CSV options: 

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]);