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.

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Created and maintained by Ayara and Kyle Jonathan B@KJB_and_AYARA

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Entries: 5,000
Geographic connections: 7,326
Countries and territories: 162

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Atlas 0961Community-bound / restricted

Yolŋu Madayin and Rom systems

Oceanian & Circumpolar Religious tradition

Public geography: Australia
Period / origin: Ancestral and continuing
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewAustralia

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Atlas 0962Community-bound / restricted

Aṉangu Tjukurpa of the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara

Oceanian & Circumpolar Religious tradition

Public geography: Australia
Period / origin: Ancestral and continuing
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewAustralia

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Atlas 0963Community-bound / restricted

Vanuatu sand-drawing tradition

Oceanian & Circumpolar Practice / discipline

Public geography: Vanuatu
Period / origin: Long-standing; living
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewVanuatu

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Atlas 0964Scholarly / historical only

Rapa Nui Tangata Manu ceremonial complex

Oceanian & Circumpolar Historical religion / cult

Public geography: Broad regional context; no country assigned
Period / origin: Especially eighteenth–nineteenth centuries; discontinued
Evidence status: Directly cited

Broader geographic contextBroad regional context; no country assigned

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Atlas 0965Scholarly / historical only

Society of the ʻArioi in the Society Islands

Oceanian & Circumpolar Historical religion / cult

Public geography: Broad regional context; no country assigned
Period / origin: Documented eighteenth–nineteenth centuries; later cultural revivals
Evidence status: Directly cited

Broader geographic contextBroad regional context; no country assigned

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Atlas 0966Community-bound / restricted

Hawaiian kahuna specialist traditions

Oceanian & Circumpolar Practice / discipline

Public geography: Broad regional context; no country assigned
Period / origin: Precontact to present in transformed forms
Evidence status: Composite record

Broader geographic contextBroad regional context; no country assigned

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Atlas 0967Community-bound / restricted

Kanaka Maoli lāʻau lapaʻau

Oceanian & Circumpolar Practice / discipline

Public geography: Broad regional context; no country assigned
Period / origin: Precontact to present
Evidence status: Directly cited

Broader geographic contextBroad regional context; no country assigned

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Atlas 0968Community-bound / restricted

Samoan taulāaitu spirit-medium traditions

Oceanian & Circumpolar Practice / discipline

Public geography: Broad regional context; no country assigned
Period / origin: Precontact to present in transformed forms
Evidence status: Directly cited

Broader geographic contextBroad regional context; no country assigned

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Atlas 0969Community-bound / restricted

Tongan taula ʻotua spirit-medium traditions

Oceanian & Circumpolar Practice / discipline

Public geography: Tonga
Period / origin: Precontact to present in transformed forms
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewTonga

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Atlas 0970Community-bound / restricted

Fijian bete priestly traditions

Oceanian & Circumpolar Practice / discipline

Public geography: Fiji
Period / origin: Precontact to present in transformed forms
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewFiji

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Atlas 0971Community-bound / restricted

Pohnpeian sakau ceremonial tradition

Oceanian & Circumpolar Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Micronesia
Period / origin: Long-standing; living
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewMicronesia

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Atlas 0972Community-bound / restricted

Chuukese spirit-medium and possession traditions

Oceanian & Circumpolar Practice / discipline

Public geography: Micronesia
Period / origin: Precontact roots; twentieth-century documentation to present
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewMicronesia

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Atlas 0973Community-bound / restricted

Trobriand kula ceremonial-exchange complex

Oceanian & Circumpolar Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Papua New Guinea
Period / origin: Long-standing; living
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewPapua New Guinea

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Atlas 0974Community-bound / restricted

Asmat bisj ancestor-pole ceremonial traditions

Oceanian & Circumpolar Rite / ceremony

Public geography: Indonesia
Period / origin: Long-standing; living and transformed
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewIndonesia

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Atlas 0975Community-bound / restricted

Kanak ancestral sacred-landscape traditions

Oceanian & Circumpolar Religious tradition

Public geography: Broad regional context; no country assigned
Period / origin: Ancestral and continuing
Evidence status: Composite record

Broader geographic contextBroad regional context; no country assigned

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Atlas 0976Open / public

Suomenusko Finnish native-faith revival

Pagan & Reconstructionist Revival / reconstruction

Public geography: Finland
Period / origin: Late twentieth-century revival drawing on older folklore
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewFinland

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Atlas 0977Open / public

Maausk Estonian native religion

Pagan & Reconstructionist Revival / reconstruction

Public geography: Estonia
Period / origin: Modern organized form since the late twentieth century, with older vernacular continuities
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewEstonia

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Atlas 0978Community-bound / restricted

Mari Native Religion

Pagan & Reconstructionist Religious tradition

Public geography: Russia
Period / origin: Long-standing rural practice with post-Soviet organization
Evidence status: Classification contested

Country links · under reviewRussia

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Atlas 0979Community-bound / restricted

Udmurt Vos traditional-religion revival

Pagan & Reconstructionist Religious tradition

Public geography: Global, transnational, diaspora, textual, or doctrinal context; no single country
Period / origin: Long-standing community practice with post-Soviet revitalization
Evidence status: Classification contested

Broader geographic contextGlobal, transnational, diaspora, textual, or doctrinal context; no single country

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Atlas 0980Community-bound / restricted

Erzya Native Religion revival

Pagan & Reconstructionist Revival / reconstruction

Public geography: Global, transnational, diaspora, textual, or doctrinal context; no single country
Period / origin: Revival since the late 1980s–1990s, drawing on vernacular traditions
Evidence status: Directly cited

Broader geographic contextGlobal, transnational, diaspora, textual, or doctrinal context; no single country

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Atlas 0981Institution-specific

Arordineri Ukht (Children of Ara)

Pagan & Reconstructionist Order / organization

Public geography: Armenia
Period / origin: Founded 1991; active in the post-Soviet period
Evidence status: Related-entry source

Country links · under reviewArmenia

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Atlas 0982Open / public

Ossetian Uatsdin and Ætsæg Din revival currents

Pagan & Reconstructionist Revival / reconstruction

Public geography: Historical or contested polity; no modern country assigned
Period / origin: Late twentieth-century organized revival with older customary continuities
Evidence status: Classification contested

Broader geographic contextHistorical or contested polity; no modern country assigned

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Atlas 0983Open / public

Armenian Hetanism revival

Pagan & Reconstructionist Revival / reconstruction

Public geography: Armenia
Period / origin: Organized revival from the late twentieth century
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewArmenia

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Atlas 0984Open / public

Romanian Zalmoxian reconstructionist currents

Pagan & Reconstructionist Revival / reconstruction

Public geography: Romania
Period / origin: Late twentieth to twenty-first century
Evidence status: Directly cited

Country links · under reviewRomania

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