A living reference atlas

Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages

Five thousand religious, mystical, Indigenous and esoteric lineages from around the world — what they are, where they came from, and where to read more.

Source-linked and transparently qualified. Editorial standards and correction criteria are public.

Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA

Entries: 5,000
Candidate geography relations: 7,326
Candidate country vocabulary: 162

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Atlas 0942Community-bound / restricted

Ichapekene Piesta of San Ignacio de Moxos

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Colonial-era syncretic formation; living
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 0943Community-bound / restricted

Ch’utillos festival complex

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Colonial-era layering over older Andean sacred geography; living
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 1450Closed ethnoreligion

Uru-Chipaya religious and sacred-landscape traditions

Indigenous Americas Religious tradition

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Historically documented; living under community authority
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 1463Community-bound / restricted

Pujllay and Ayarichi of Yampara culture

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Historically documented; living
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 1902Open / public

Oruro Carnival ceremonial complex

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Precolonial roots; colonial transformation; living
Evidence status: Cluster-level source

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 1903Open / public

La Paz Alasita ritual-journey tradition

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Historically layered; living
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 1904Open / public

La Paz Gran Poder festival tradition

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: 20th century–present with older devotional roots
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 1905Open / public

Tarija Fiesta Grande of Saint Roch

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: 19th century–present
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 1935Varies by lineage

Aymara Willkakuti solar-new-year traditions

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia, Chile, Peru
Period / origin: Historically layered; living and revitalized
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia, Chile, Peru

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Atlas 1936Community-bound / restricted

Northern Potosí Tinku ritual-encounter tradition

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Historically documented; living and transformed
Evidence status: Classification contested

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 2909Scholarly / historical only

Tiwanaku spiritual and political center

Indigenous Americas Sacred site / complex

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: 500–1000 CE
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 3419Scholarly / historical only

Fuerte de Samaipata

Indigenous Americas Sacred site / complex

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: 14th–16th centuries and earlier
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 4369Community-bound / restricted

Guaraní Arete Guasu

Indigenous Americas Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay
Period / origin: Ancestral Guaraní tradition; active
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesArgentina, Bolivia, Paraguay

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Atlas 4387Community-bound / restricted

Isla del Sol sacred landscape

Indigenous Americas Sacred site / complex

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: Pre-Inca and Inca periods–present descendant significance
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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Atlas 4903Community-bound / restricted

Festivity of the Virgen of Guadalupe, Patroness of Sucre

Other / Cross-cultural Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Bolivia
Period / origin: 17th century–present
Evidence status: Directly cited

Candidate countriesBolivia

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