Entity Periods

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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confidence
{'description': 'high / medium / low — certainty of the period assignment'}
rationale
{'description': 'Justification with source citations'}

3 rows where period_id = "PER_PCB_POSTCLASSIC_MESOAMERICA"

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Link entity_id period_id confidence rationale source_id review_status
ENT_PCB_MAM,PER_PCB_POSTCLASSIC_MESOAMERICA Mam ENT_PCB_MAM Mesoamerican Postclassic (to the Spanish Conquest) 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 Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Religion ENT_PCB_MESOAMERICAN_RELIGION Mesoamerican Postclassic (to the Spanish Conquest) 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 Tonantzin ENT_PCB_TONANTZIN Mesoamerican Postclassic (to the Spanish Conquest) 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

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CREATE TABLE "entity_periods" (
   [entity_id] TEXT REFERENCES [entities]([entity_id]),
   [period_id] TEXT REFERENCES [periods]([period_id]),
   [confidence] TEXT,
   [rationale] TEXT,
   [source_id] TEXT,
   [review_status] TEXT,
   PRIMARY KEY ([entity_id], [period_id])
);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_period_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([period_id]);
CREATE INDEX [idx_entity_periods_entity_id]
    ON [entity_periods] ([entity_id]);