entities: ENT_PCB_MAM

The core table — every entity in the database, spanning gods, angels, demons, aeons, prophets, saints, heroes, spirits, monsters, personified abstractions, cosmological realms, and ritual categories. Use entity_class to filter by kind (19 controlled values: deity, angel, demon, aeon, sefirah, spirit, monster, hero, etc.). category is free text (1,148 values) and is not a reliable filter. Use tradition to filter by tradition. The short_note column contains a scholarly description with source citations.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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entity_id canonical_name greek_name tradition entity_type category primary_domains tags cult_scope primary_period evidence_confidence review_status inclusion_basis earth_association_score chthonic_flag serpent_flag short_note entity_class
ENT_PCB_MAM Mam   Mesoamerican God God earth, ancestors, mountains   devotional   C candidate_verified_name Roster build via gen_roster.py (see CHANGELOG/git for release) 0 0 0 Maya 'Grandfather'/ancestral earth figure of the Guatemalan highlands publicly regarded as the indigenous antecedent of the living folk saint Maximon (San Simon). Pre-Columbian source; only publicly attested function modeled, no ritual interiors. In highland Maya Catholic practice the derived folk saint Maximon is publicly identified with San Simon and with Judas Iscariot (Pieper); that identification attaches to the received folk-saint figure rather than to Mam directly. deity

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