Relationship Types
Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb
- relationship_type
- {'description': 'The relationship type name'}
- inverse_relationship_type
- {'description': 'The inverse of this relationship type, if defined'}
- description
- {'description': 'Definition and usage guidance'}
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| relationship_type ▼ | inverse_relationship_type | description |
|---|---|---|
| aligned_with | aligned_with | Entity is metaphysically, morally, or cosmologically aligned with a principle or domain |
| associated_ritual | ritual_associated_with | Entity is associated with a ritual or ritual category |
| associated_with | Reserved for genuinely ambiguous, contextual, or unresolved associations where no typed relation applies. Kept minimal (policy: under 10 records). | |
| belongs_to_realm | contains_member | Entity belongs to or originates from a cosmological realm or ontological domain |
| causes_affliction | Entity causes, sends, embodies, or is ritually associated with disease, harm, plague, or affliction | |
| child_of | parent_of | Biological or mythic child relationship |
| consort_of | consort_of | Consort relationship |
| created_from | Entity or class is created from, constituted by, or mythically formed from a substance or element | |
| creator_of | Entity creates or brings forth a cosmological or ontological domain | |
| cult_form_of | has_cult_form | Cult-specific manifestation |
| deceives_or_tempts | Entity deceives, tempts, misleads, or spiritually corrupts humans or other beings | |
| dwelling_of | dwells_in | Inverse of dwells_in |
| dwells_in | dwelling_of | Entity dwells in or belongs to a realm/place |
| emanates | emanates_from | Inverse of emanates_from |
| emanates_from | emanates | Entity emanates from another entity or source |
| embodied_by | embodies | Inverse of embodies |
| embodies | embodied_by | Entity embodies or personifies an abstract concept |
| epithet_of | has_epithet | Epithet relationship |
| equated_with | equated_with | Interpretatio or theological equivalence |
| eschatological_role | Entity has a defined role in apocalyptic, end-time, resurrection, judgment, or final restoration traditions | |
| guarded_by | guardian_of | Inverse of guardian_of |
| guardian_of | guarded_by | Entity guards a person, group, place, office, or threshold |
| guided_by | guides | Psychopompic guidance inverse |
| guides | guided_by | Psychopompic guidance |
| has_cult_form | cult_form_of | Cult manifestation relationship |
| has_epithet | epithet_of | Entity possesses epithet |
| has_member | member_of | Collective contains member |
| identified_with | identified_with | Textual, theological, or interpretative identification between entities without implying fusion |
| imprisoned_by | imprisons | Inverse of imprisons |
| imprisons | imprisoned_by | Imprisonment relationship |
| judged_by | judges | Judgment relationship inverse |
| judges | judged_by | Judgment relationship |
| mediated_by | mediates | Inverse of mediates |
| mediates | mediated_by | Entity mediates between realms, beings, or states |
| member_of | has_member | Membership in a collective |
| opposed_by | opposes | Inverse of opposes |
| opposes | opposed_by | Opposition relationship |
| paired_with | paired_with | Symmetrical cultic, symbolic, or structural pairing between entities |
| parent_of | child_of | Biological or mythic parent relationship |
| participates_in_creation | Entity participates in, enables, templates, or contributes to cosmological creation without being sole creator | |
| patron_of | patronized_by | Entity is patron of a group, craft, activity, or condition |
| patronized_by | patron_of | Inverse of patron_of |
| possessed_by | possesses | Inverse of possesses |
| possesses | possessed_by | Entity possesses or holds a quality, object, office, or knowledge |
| presided_over_by | presides_over | Inverse of presides_over |
| presides_over | presided_over_by | Entity presides over a domain, process, ritual, or realm |
| protected_by | protects | Protective relationship inverse |
| protects | protected_by | Protective relationship |
| received_as | Directed transmission: the subject (entity in an earlier tradition) was received, reinterpreted, or transmitted as the object (entity in a later tradition or reception context). Captures historical transformation across traditions and periods. Use with period_id on the relationship to anchor the moment of reception. | |
| reception_of | Inverse of received_as: the subject (later tradition entity) is a reception, reinterpretation, or derivative of the object (earlier entity). Use to query backward from a reception form to its source. | |
| rescued_by | rescues | Inverse of rescues |
| rescues | rescued_by | Rescue relationship |
| revealed_by | reveals | Inverse of reveals |
| reveals | revealed_by | Entity reveals knowledge, salvation, or divine mysteries |
| ritual_associated_with | associated_ritual | Inverse of associated_ritual |
| ruled_by | rules | Inverse of rules |
| rules | ruled_by | Rules a realm or domain |
| savior_of | saved_by | Entity functions as savior, rescuer, awakener, or liberator of a being, soul, class, or soteriological process |
| sibling_of | sibling_of | Sibling relationship |
| slain_by | slays | Mythic defeat inverse |
| slays | slain_by | Mythic defeat |
| spouse_of | spouse_of | Marital relationship |
| symbolized_by | symbolizes | Inverse of symbolizes |
| symbolizes | symbolized_by | Entity symbolizes or represents a concept |
| syncretized_with | syncretized_with | Syncretic identity |
| taught_by | teaches | Inverse of teaches |
| teaches | taught_by | Entity teaches knowledge, doctrine, skill, or revelation |
| transmits | transmitted_by | Entity transmits revelation, teaching, power, or tradition |
| transmitted_by | transmits | Inverse of transmits |
| undergoes_process | Entity undergoes, participates in, or is defined by a mythic, ritual, or cosmological process |
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CREATE TABLE [relationship_types] ( [relationship_type] TEXT PRIMARY KEY, [inverse_relationship_type] TEXT, [description] TEXT );