☀️ GOD.OSX Atlas

Religions And Traditions

A broad public atlas of major religions, sects, schools, mystical paths, indigenous lineages, esoteric orders, and syncretic traditions. This is not the final map of all human belief, but a living structure wide enough to keep expanding.

Abrahamic

Traditions of covenant, revelation, prophecy, law, church, ummah, and inherited sacred memory.

ChristianityGlobal Christic lineage. Church, scripture, sacrament, gospel, resurrection. CatholicismSacrament and magisterium. Rome, continuity, liturgy, hierarchy, universality. Eastern OrthodoxyMystery and holy continuity. Icons, liturgy, theosis, continuity, holy mystery. ProtestantismScripture and reform. Conscience, reform, text, preaching, renewal. AnglicanismBridge of altar and reform. Tradition, prayer book, state, sacrament, via media. JudaismCovenant, memory, law. Torah, peoplehood, law, memory, sacred time. IslamSubmission and revelation. Quran, prophecy, prayer, law, community. Sunni IslamMajority orthodoxy. Law schools, consensus, prophetic example, order. Shia IslamImamate and witness. Succession, martyrdom, imams, fidelity, justice. SufismInner path of remembrance. Dhikr, love, annihilation, return, nearness. Baha'iUnity of humanity and revelation. Progressive revelation, unity, order, global ethics.

Iranian

Iranian sacred lineages and cosmic moral traditions rooted in truth, fire, and ethical order.

ZoroastrianismFire, truth, cosmic choice. Asha, fire, purity, truth, moral struggle.

Dharmic

Paths of karma, dharma, liberation, devotion, discipline, and philosophical practice across South Asia.

HinduismPlural path of dharma. Ritual, devotion, philosophy, liberation, cosmic order. ShaivismLord of dissolution and ascent. Ascetic power, tantra, Shiva, transformation. VaishnavismDevotion to the preserving divine. Bhakti, avatar, surrender, preservation, grace. ShaktismThe divine as power. Goddess, energy, tantra, embodiment, force. BuddhismThe path beyond attachment. Awakening, suffering, insight, discipline, liberation. TheravadaElder way of discipline. Monastic clarity, direct practice, pali lineage. MahayanaGreat vehicle of compassion. Bodhisattva ideal, emptiness, compassion, vast path. VajrayanaLightning vehicle. Mantra, tantra, initiation, subtle body, transformation. ZenDirectness beyond clutter. Stillness, koan, discipline, presence, cut through. JainismRadical nonviolence. Austerity, multiplicity of truth, harmlessness, release. SikhismSword and remembrance. Oneness, seva, courage, song, discipline.

East Asian

Ways of harmony, rite, social order, spirit presence, and cosmological balance.

TaoismWay and natural pattern. Flow, non-forcing, immortality, harmony, subtle power. ConfucianismRitual and social order. Relation, role, cultivation, order, virtue. ShintoKami and sacred place. Purity, shrine, nature, ancestry, local sacredness. Chinese Folk ReligionAncestry, gods, and lived cosmology. Household rites, ancestors, local gods, continuity. TenrikyoJoyous life tradition. Divine parenthood, healing, service, communal joy. Cao DaiSyncretic Vietnamese revelation. Fusion, spirits, scripture, global synthesis.

Modern

Modern high-structure movements with strong systems of ascent, narrative, and organization.

ScientologySystem of ascent and auditing. Levels, doctrine, self-work, hierarchy, control.

Esoteric

Hidden schools, initiatory bodies, symbolic orders, occult syntheses, and ritual fraternities.

MasoniOrder, rite, and symbol. Lodge, initiation, architecture, secrecy, fraternity. GnosticismSalvation through hidden knowledge. Demiurge, spark, ascent, hidden truth, release. RosicrucianismMystical reform and symbol. Alchemy, secret wisdom, inner transformation, signs. TheosophyOccult synthesis of traditions. Hierarchy, hidden masters, comparative mysticism. WiccaModern ritual paganism. Wheel of the year, polarity, rite, sacred craft. DruidrySacred nature and memory. Grove, season, poetry, land, restoration.

Reconstructionist

Revived ancient forms and reconstructed ritual worlds rooted in historical pantheons.

HellenismReturn of Greek sacred forms. Olympians, rite, offering, order, civic sacredness. AsatruNorse ancestral return. Honor, gods, fate, kinship, old northern forms. KemeticismRevival of Egyptian sacred order. Ma'at, gods, ritual order, cosmic balance.

African

African sacred systems with divination, spirit mediation, and destiny work.

IfaDivination and destiny. Orisha, verse, destiny, consultation, sacred pattern.

African Diaspora

Diasporic continuities where African lineages survived through adaptation, syncretism, and ceremony.

VodouSpirit relation and service. Lwa, possession, relation, protection, ceremony. SanteriaOrisha in syncretic continuity. Saints, orisha, offerings, rhythm, survival. CandombleBrazilian house of orisha. Terreiro, trance, drums, lineage, force.

Indigenous

Land-based traditions where place, ancestor, relation, and ecology remain inseparable from the sacred.

Native American SpiritualityLand, ancestor, relation. Ceremony, land, kinship, sacred ecology. Andean CosmologyMountain, reciprocity, cosmos. Ayni, mountain spirits, reciprocity, woven world. Aboriginal DreamingSonglines and ancestral world. Dreaming, land, ancestral pattern, sacred route. Maori SpiritualityGenealogy and sacred relation. Whakapapa, mana, tapu, relation, continuity.