entity_periods: ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE, PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

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entity_id	period_id	confidence	rationale	source_id	review_status
ENT_VF_THE_UNIVERSE	PER_MODERN_FOLKLORE	high	Genuinely petitioned, thanked, and trusted as a providential agent ('the Universe has my back,' 'thank you, Universe,' 'asking the Universe for X'). Functions as a quasi-deistic provider in Law-of-Attraction practice; Rhonda Byrne's The Secret (2006) instructs the practitioner to ask the Universe, believe, and receive, treating it as a responsive personal force. Rooted in 19th-c. New Thought, hence Modern-Folklore period; the vernacular gratitude/petition idiom is ubiquitous online.	SRC_BYRNE_SECRET	reviewed