Explore 6,000 years of belief

WorldReligions

An interactive atlas of the faiths, philosophies, and ancient cosmologies that have shaped human consciousness — from Sumer's ziggurats to the modern diaspora.

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Aboriginal Dreaming40,000 BCE Sumerian Religion3,500 BCE†Ancient Egyptian Religion3,000 BCE†Canaanite Religion2,000 BCE†Hinduism2,000 BCE Judaism1,800 BCE Zoroastrianism1,500 BCE Chinese Folk Religion1,500 BCE Mesoamerican Religion1,200 BCE†Tengrism1,000 BCE Inuit Religion1,000 BCE Greco-Roman Religion800 BCE†Jainism600 BCE Norse Paganism500 BCE†Slavic & Baltic Paganism500 BCE†Buddhism500 BCE Taoism500 BCE Confucianism500 BCE Samaritanism450 BCE Celtic Druidism400 BCE†Shinto300 BCE Ifá (Yoruba Divination)300 BCE Stoicism300 BCE Yoruba Religion200 BCE Christianity30 CE Mithraism100 CE†Gnosticism100 CE†Mandaeism100 CE Manichaeism240 CE†Islam610 CE Bön1,000 CE Druze1,000 CE Yazidism1,100 CE Navajo (Diné) Spirituality1,300 CE Māori Religion1,300 CE Sikhism1,500 CE Santería1,700 CE Haitian Vodou1,700 CE Candomblé1,800 CE Cheondogyo1,860 CE Bahá'í Faith1,863 CE Cao Đài1,926 CE Rastafari1,930 CE Wicca1,950 CE

Traditions mapped

Still practiced today

Lost to time

Adherents represented

Four ways to explore

An atlas you can wander

6,000 Years

Interactive Timeline

Drag, zoom, and trace births, schisms, and extinctions across the entire span of recorded belief.

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Sacred Geography

A Living Globe

Fly between Varanasi, Mecca, Jerusalem, and Babylon. See where faiths took root.

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The Ideas

Concept Network

Wander a force-directed map of karma, salvation, sacrifice — and the faiths that hold them.

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Side by Side

Compare Traditions

Line up to four religions and see where they agree, diverge, and quietly echo each other.

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By tradition family

Six great currents

Abrahamic

Covenant, prophecy, and one God — from Sinai outward.

8 traditions

Indian

Karma, rebirth, and liberation across the subcontinent.

5 traditions

Iranian

Light and darkness, from Zarathustra to the Bahá'í.

4 traditions

East Asian

Tao, ritual, and the kami of the rising sun.

6 traditions

Indo-European

Bronze Age pantheons, from Sumer to the Nordic sagas.

7 traditions

African & Diaspora

Orishas, lwa, and ancestors across the Black Atlantic.

6 traditions

Indigenous

The Dreaming, the hózhó, the sacred land itself.

5 traditions

Modern

New religious movements born from 19th-century revelation and reform.

3 traditions