entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status
ENT_PCB_MAM,PER_PCB_POSTCLASSIC_MESOAMERICA,high,"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.",SRC_PIEPER_FOLK_SAINTS_GUATEMALA,reviewed
ENT_PCB_MESOAMERICAN_RELIGION,PER_PCB_POSTCLASSIC_MESOAMERICA,high,"Hub collective for the pre-Columbian (Nahua and Maya) deities included only at documented Catholic syncretism seams. Pre-Columbian source; not a full pantheon roster. Practice: the indigenous religions of central Mexico and the Maya highlands, suppressed and partly continued in syncretic Catholic devotion after 1521.",SRC_BRADING_MEXICAN_PHOENIX,reviewed
ENT_PCB_TONANTZIN,PER_PCB_POSTCLASSIC_MESOAMERICA,high,"Nahuatl 'Our Revered Mother', a Nahua mother-earth title/goddess with a shrine at Tepeyac near Mexico City. Attestation: Bernardino de Sahagun (16th c.) records that indigenous pilgrims called the Guadalupan shrine at Tepeyac 'Tonantzin'. Pre-Columbian source. The Tonantzin-Guadalupe association is the canonical documented Mesoamerican-Catholic syncretism seam (Brading).",SRC_BRADING_MEXICAN_PHOENIX,reviewed