v_public_cross_tradition_links: 82

The comparative-religion core — every link where one tradition's figure is received, syncretised, equated, or recognised as a cognate of another tradition's (reception_of, received_as, syncretized_with, identified_with, equated_with, aligned_with, cult_form_of). 577 connections across the religions of the ancient and late-antique world.

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rowid	entity	tradition	relationship_type	linked_entity	linked_tradition	confidence	rationale	source_id
82	Ragana	Baltic	aligned_with	Hecate	Greek	medium	Ragana and Hecate share a cluster of defining attributes that make them the clearest structural parallel across the Baltic and Greek traditions: both are nocturnal sorceress figures associated with crossroads, the moon, shape-shifting, death, and the ambiguous boundary between the living and the dead. Ragana appears in Lithuanian folklore as a shape-shifting witch who travels at night, transforms into animals (especially cats and birds), and is associated with harmful magic and infant death — parallels to Hecate as Chthonia (underworld goddess), Trioditis (crossroads deity), and the patron of witchcraft invoked in Greek magical papyri. Neither figure is a straightforward "goddess of witches" in her origin tradition (Hecate has a complex Titaness origin; Ragana may derive from an earlier supernatural female figure), but their convergent role in folk magic, nocturnal danger, and death boundary makes the alignment structurally sound. Confidence medium: the parallel is typological, not genetic; no direct historical connection exists between Lithuanian and Greek traditions. Greimas (1992) p. 73.	SRC_GREIMAS_LITHUANIAN