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_UKKO"

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ENT_FINN_UKKO,SRC_AGRICOLA_PRIMER,direct attestation Ukko ENT_FINN_UKKO 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: Ukko listed first among the Häme deities — "Ukko ruled weather and the air / and gave rain when summer was dry." Earliest written attestation of Ukko by name.
ENT_FINN_UKKO,SRC_KALEVALA,direct attestation Ukko ENT_FINN_UKKO 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 2:323-328: "Ukko, thou of gods the highest"; Runo 47: Ukko is called to restore the stolen sun and moon; pervasive invocations throughout as the highest divine authority.
ENT_FINN_UKKO,SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA,scholarly attestation Ukko ENT_FINN_UKKO Juha Pentikäinen, Kalevala Mythology, trans. Ritva Poom (Indiana University Press, Bloomington IN, 1999) SRC_PENTIKÄINEN_KALEVALA scholarly attestation Pentikäinen (1999) pp. 121-140: Ukko as supreme thunder deity; cognate analysis with Baltic Perkūnas and Norse Thor; the rain-making and harvest-protection functions; decline of the cult under Christianization.

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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]);