v_public_cross_tradition_links: 99

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
99	Lotan	Canaanite/Ugaritic	received_as	Leviathan	Israelite/Second Temple	high	Lotan (ltn, Ugaritic) is the direct linguistic and mythological cognate of Hebrew Leviathan (lwtn/lwytn). KTU 1.5 I 1–3: "When you smote Lotan the primordial serpent, annihilated the twisting serpent, the mighty one with seven heads." Isaiah 27:1 applies the same epithets to Leviathan verbatim ("Leviathan the fleeing serpent ... Leviathan the twisting serpent ... the dragon that is in the sea"). Name cognacy, description, and combat-myth role are all identical. Day 1985 pp. 1–30 and DDD_BIBLE s.v. "Leviathan" identify this as the most secure Canaanite→Israelite mythological transmission.	SRC_DAY_GODS_CONFLICT