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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:10, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

Pascual Abaj

 * ... that Pascual Abaj, near Chichicastenango in Guatemala, is a sculpted stone idol that survived the Spanish conquest but was badly damaged in the 1950s by religious activists? Source: Hart 2008 The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya. pp. 81-82. "Pascual Abaj... was said to have been taken from an ancient site... up the hill... away from the prying eyes of the Spanish and the church [...] In the fifties, a group of Catholic Action converts smashed the standing stone figure..."
 * Reviewed: Camille Robinson-Regis

Created by Simon Burchell (talk). Self-nominated at 20:29, 3 December 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Hi Simon Burchell, review follows: Article created 1 December; article exceeds minimum length; article is well referenced to reliable sources; hook is very interesting and backed up by the sources; the image is suitably licensed, it would probably benefit from being cropped to show just the idol if being featured as the picture hook; QPQ has been done - Dumelow (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2017 (UTC)