Each ribbon is a tradition, from its birth to today (or its quiet end). Dotted lines mark schisms; the † marks faiths now gone. Click any tradition to dive in.
Eight unified categories across sparse anchor years. Scrub or play to explore — values tween smoothly between real measurements only.
Anchor years only — animation eases between measured points, not fabricated yearly census data. Beyond 2026, hatched areas are projections from Pew 2015 and CSGC 2026 models.
The cradle of written myth, city-gods and ziggurats.
Pharaohs, mummification, and the weighing of the heart.
The first great monotheism — light against darkness.
El, Baal, Asherah — the gods of the Levant.
Olympus, oracles, and the rites of the polis.
Odin, Thor, Valhalla, and Ragnarök.
Druids, sacred groves, and the wheel of the year.
A world religion of light and darkness, from Persia to China.
Eternal Blue Sky — the faith of the steppe.
The mystery cult of the bull-slayer Mithras.
The oldest living religion — many paths to one truth.
The Middle Way to the end of suffering.
Radical nonviolence and the soul's absolute freedom.
One creator, equality, and honest work.
The covenant between one God and a people.
Salvation through Christ, God incarnate.
Submission to the will of Allah.
One faith, one humanity, evolving revelation.
Flowing with the Tao — the way of the universe.
Ethics, ritual, and the cultivation of virtue.
The way of the kami — Japan's indigenous faith.
Korea's 'Religion of the Heavenly Way.'
The peacock angel and a people of the mountains.
An esoteric Levantine faith, monotheistic and secret.
Yoruba orisha devotion in the Caribbean.
Olodumare and the orishas of West Africa.
Bondye, the lwa, and the ancestors of Haiti.
Sedna of the sea, shamans, and animal souls.
Hózhó — beauty, balance, and the Blessingway.
Io the supreme, ancestors, and the web of mana.
The world's oldest continuous religion.
The wisdom oracle of the Yoruba and beyond.
Virtue as the only good; master your judgments.
A modern pagan witchcraft of nature and duality.