language: en
legacy_status: canonical_en
derived_from_base: v0047
purpose: q0065_individual_promotion_execution
related_candidate: Q-0065
related_case: CASE-0002
related_anchor_case: CASE-0001
related_sources: SRC-0065; SRC-0078; SRC-0079
related_reports: REPORT_020_INDIVIDUAL_CANDIDATE_PROMOTION_REVIEW_Q0061_Q0065.md; REPORT_022_WATER_THRESHOLD_CONTRAST_REVIEW.md; REPORT_023_WATER_THRESHOLD_PATTERN_CRITERIA_HIERARCHY.md; REPORT_024_Q0065_FUNCTIONAL_PROMOTION_READINESS_REVIEW.md
related_addenda: ADDENDUM_001_PROMOTION_CRITERIA_CONTRAST_CASES_HORIZONTAL_REVIEW.md; ADDENDUM_002_MAIN_DATABASE_MARKER_SCHEMA_RULE.md
operation_type: q0065_individual_promotion_execution_operation
promotion_review: false
promotion_executed: true
promotion_level: individual_candidate_only
case_created: CASE-0002

REPORT_025 — Q-0065 Individual Promotion Execution: CASE-0002

1. Base status

Base version: v0047.

Current base counts before this operation:

The next identifiers were checked before the operation:

This operation executes one controlled individual-candidate promotion: Q-0065 becomes CASE-0002. It does not create a raw run, does not add sources, does not create a viewer and does not create a public page.

2. Purpose of this promotion execution

The purpose of this operation is to promote Q-0065 — San Casciano dei Bagni sacred spring as water-centered votive and healing sanctuary — as an individual Main Database case.

The promotion level is strictly:

individual documented ritual/social practice

This operation does not promote the water / threshold pattern, an underworld hypothesis, ontological mediation, a universal symbol, deep common origin, ritualized cultural memory or the single responsible-agent / maximal hypothesis.

The promotion also does not transform CASE-0001 into a model. CASE-0001 remains an individual anchor case, and CASE-0002 is a functionally differentiated individual case.

3. Decision basis and audit trail

The decision to execute this promotion is based on four internal PATHOS reports and an external audit confirmation:

  1. REPORT_020_INDIVIDUAL_CANDIDATE_PROMOTION_REVIEW_Q0061_Q0065.md performed the formal individual-candidate promotion review for both Q-0061 and Q-0065 and recommended Q-0065 for individual promotion.
  2. REPORT_022_WATER_THRESHOLD_CONTRAST_REVIEW.md established that Q-0065 should be treated as an internal functional contrast, not as simple confirmation of CASE-0001.
  3. REPORT_023_WATER_THRESHOLD_PATTERN_CRITERIA_HIERARCHY.md established the rule documented_function_before_comparative_strength.
  4. REPORT_024_Q0065_FUNCTIONAL_PROMOTION_READINESS_REVIEW.md assigned Q-0065 the readiness category conditionally_ready_with_cautious_absence_language and fixed the rule absence_not_attested_is_not_absence_excluded.

The execution is authorized by PATHOS Control after the external auditor Claude confirmed that v0047 passed and that the path toward a future individual promotion of Q-0065 had been methodologically prepared.

4. Relationship to REPORT_020, REPORT_022, REPORT_023 and REPORT_024

REPORT_020 provides the formal promotion-review basis: Q-0065 was reviewed at the individual-candidate level and recommended for promotion as a documented ritual/social practice.

REPORT_022 prevents a misleading interpretation of this promotion. It made Q-0065 important because it is water-centered and ritual, but functionally different from CASE-0001. It is not a death / human-remains / sacrificial Maya cenote case.

REPORT_023 controls the promotion by requiring documented function before comparative strength. Q-0065 is not promoted because it contains water. It is promoted because the linked sources document a water-centered sacred pool / sanctuary / votive-deposition context, with cautious support for healing or therapeutic framing.

REPORT_024 provides the final readiness constraint. The recommended wording is preserved: funerary, underworld-descent or ontological mediation functions are not attested in the currently linked sources, but their absence must not be overstated as explicit exclusion.

5. Candidate promoted

Promoted candidate:

Linked sources used for the promoted case:

Q-0065 remains preserved in data/candidates_quarantine.jsonl for historical continuity, with promotion_status updated to promoted_as_individual_candidate, following the precedent of Q-0061.

6. CASE-0002 creation summary

CASE-0002 is created in data/cases_main.jsonl as the second Main Database case in PATHOS.

The case is created as:

The promotion is not pattern-level. It does not create a second step toward automatic promotion of the water / threshold line.

7. Documented function of Q-0065 / CASE-0002

The promoted function is a water-centered votive / therapeutic sanctuary context.

More precisely, the currently linked sources support:

The function is not inferred merely from the presence of water. It is grounded in source-linked sanctuary, votive and sacred-pool documentation. The therapeutic dimension is retained, but with cautious wording because the readiness review determined that it should not be treated as a fully reconstructed therapeutic doctrine or individual healing outcome.

8. Cautious absence language

The central formulation for CASE-0002 is:

Q-0065 documents a water-centered votive / therapeutic sanctuary context. Funerary, underworld-descent, or ontological mediation functions are not attested in the currently linked sources, but their absence should not be overstated as explicit exclusion.

This wording applies the rule:

absence_not_attested_is_not_absence_excluded

The operation therefore does not claim that funerary, chthonic or underworld-related associations are impossible. It claims only that they are not attested in the currently linked source set and are not part of the promotion basis.

9. CASE-0002 as differentiated individual case, not pattern confirmation

CASE-0001 and CASE-0002 are both water-centered cases, but their dominant functions differ.

Working distinction preserved by this operation:

This differentiation is the reason CASE-0002 can be useful. It prevents CASE-0001 from becoming an interpretive model and prevents Q-0065 from being misread as simple confirmation.

The coexistence of CASE-0001 and CASE-0002 reinforces the need to distinguish functions before comparing forms. It does not justify summing water cases into a promoted pattern.

10. Markers and hypotheses explicitly not promoted

CASE-0002.markers follows ADDENDUM_002_MAIN_DATABASE_MARKER_SCHEMA_RULE.md.

Markers contain only documented properties and methodological descriptors, including water, thermal spring, sacred pool, votive sanctuary, votive deposit, ritual deposition, offering locus, therapeutic context, healing association, Etruscan-Roman ritual context, and form-function-context-source.

Hypothesis-level concepts are excluded from markers. Concepts such as underworld descent, ontological mediation, universal water-underworld symbolism, deep common origin and the single responsible-agent / maximal hypothesis appear only in hypotheses_explicitly_not_promoted or limitations, where their meaning is explicitly negative.

11. Main Database update summary

Main Database changes in this operation:

After this operation, the Main Database contains two individual cases:

12. What this operation does NOT do

This operation does not:

13. Methodological conclusion

Q-0065 has been promoted to the Main Database as CASE-0002.

Promotion level: individual documented ritual/social practice.

CASE-0002 is a differentiated individual case, not a pattern confirmation. It documents a water-centered votive / therapeutic sanctuary context at San Casciano dei Bagni / Bagno Grande, while preserving cautious absence language for funerary, underworld-descent and ontological mediation functions.

No comparative pattern has been promoted. No high-level hypothesis has been promoted. CASE-0001 remains an anchor, not a model. The water / threshold line remains methodologically active but not promoted as a pattern. The single responsible-agent / maximal hypothesis remains outside the canonical evidentiary layer and under Conceptual quarantine.