entity_periods: ENT_PCB_TONANTZIN, PER_PCB_POSTCLASSIC_MESOAMERICA
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| entity_id | period_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |