The Rabbit Hole

Advanced system architectures

How each record is wired

Architecture means layers, agents, time, and the human slot. Watch where circuits rhyme. Leave every establishment’s language untouched — similarity is observation, not an edit.

Wiring patterns

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Heaven, ancestors, correlative order

Heaven and Earth, with humans and ancestors between. Gods and ghosts populate popular cult. Correlative cosmology is one layer, not the whole.

Not Daoism, not Confucianism alone, and not Chinese Buddhism, even though people may practice more than one.

Chinese Traditional Religion/Cosmology23

Heaven, Earth, humanity, and ancestors. Popular gods and ghosts. Correlative cosmology beside temple practice. Not Daoism.

  1. 01

    Heaven’s generating

    Not one founder myth for all Chinese tradition.

  2. 02

    Heaven, Earth, humanity

    Yin-yang and five phases in the classical layer.

  3. 03

    Gods, ancestors, ghosts

    A crowded world. Lists differ by place and century.

  4. 04

    Person in relation

    Duties to the dead and the living. Soul-division is not universal.

  5. 05

    Ancestor rite, sometimes an underworld

    Buddhist rebirth is an added layer where it is present.

Time
Mandate and dynasty, and correlative cycles. Not one apocalypse.
Agents
Heaven, gods, ancestors, the living.
Human slot
Between Heaven and Earth, responsible to both and to the dead.
Break
Disorder and failed order. Not one devil who explains the system.

All stacks

33 wirings, 40 records. Scan the one-line circuit, then open the pattern.

  1. 01ScienceA one-way stack from physical process to biological organism, with consciousness left open and no established layer above death.
  2. 02JudaismCreator → ordered world → moral human → (varied afterlife) → flood/judgment/restoration. Rebirth is generally off the main circuit.
  3. 04ChristianityCreator → created cosmos (heaven/earth/hell) → embodied spiritual-moral human → death → resurrection, judgment, eternal destiny.
  4. 05IslamAllah creates seen and unseen. Humans are moral agents. Multiple heavens. Circuit closes in judgment and continued existence, without rebirth.
  5. 03EnochicDivine order is layered. Watchers, angels, and giants entangle heaven with the human realm. Judgment is of beings and world together.
  6. 06HinduCyclic expression of cosmos. Lokas, beings, often Meru. Death changes embodiment. Self/ātman is school-dependent, so the inner socket is not one part.
  7. 07BuddhistConditioned arising without a required creator. Multiple realms, traditional Meru maps. Continuity without a permanent self. Liberation is exit from the cycle, not perfection of a soul.
  8. 08DaoistDao precedes differentiation. Heaven–Earth–humanity is one process. The human aligns by cultivation. Death and rebirth teachings vary by stream.
  9. 09EgyptianOrdered cosmos emerges from a primordial state. Personhood has multiple components. The dead travel. Solar cycle and renewal are the clock.
  10. 10MesopotamianGods establish order. Humans relate to those gods through temple, text, and divination. Death goes underworld. Flood is the remembered break.
  11. 18SumerianWhat is filed is a set of compositions, not one canon. Humans are made to carry the gods’ work. The me move from Eridu to Uruk. The netherworld has gates. A flood breaks the king list, and kingship is lowered again.
  12. 11NorsePrimordial process → multiple worlds on Yggdrasil → many kinds of beings → humans in one world → several deaths → Ragnarök and a renewed world.
  13. 12AnishinaabeRelational creation. Land, water, and cosmos are not a machine-map. Other-than-human persons are on the same living field. Ceremony, dream, and elders are the interface.
  14. 13MayaSuccessive creations. Layered heavens and underworlds around a world tree. Humans owe the cosmos. Astronomy sits with ritual as a way of knowing.
  15. 14ZoroastrianOrdered creation is opposed by a destructive force. Humans choose inside that struggle. Judgment and continuance; generally no rebirth. The clock ends in restoration.
  16. 15LDSPreexistent intelligences and elements. God organizes. Premortal human → mortality → spirit world → resurrection. Vast inhabited creation. Not saṃsāra.
  17. 16ScientologyThetan is prior. Body and universe are not identity. Repeated embodiment is the condition. Auditing is the operator. No one-world apocalypse as the center.
  18. 17AstrologySky and ground are an interface. Birth maps a person onto the pattern. Afterlife and rebirth are borrowed from whatever religion hosts the sky-method.
  19. 44Living RealmReality is an organism. Meru is heart/axis. Multiple realms and mixed being-classes. Humanity participates. Moon interval, rebirth, periodic reset/canopy opening. Knowing is comparison of fragments plus experience.
  20. 19GreekCult and myth of many gods; mortals die into varied underworlds; mysteries and philosophy are additional circuits, not corrections of Homer.
  21. 20JainNo creator. Eternal loka. Jīva bound by karma moves through births, including god-births, until liberation.
  22. 21SikhOne God creates a real world. The soul cycles in self-centeredness until hukam, remembrance, and liberation.
  23. 22ShintoKami and people share the land. Myth has a heavenly plain and Yomi. Practice is rite and purity more than creed.
  24. 23ChineseHeaven, Earth, humanity, and ancestors. Popular gods and ghosts. Correlative cosmology beside temple practice. Not Daoism.
  25. 24GnosticFullness above. In many systems a demiurge and archons below. A divine element in the human seeks return by gnosis.
  26. 25HermeticMind and a cosmos often alive. The human can know and ascend. Above corresponds to below. The Asclepius’s Egyptian crisis is one text.
  27. 26YorubaOlódùmarè, distinct òrìṣà, ancestors, orí, ayé and òrun. Ifá knows by divination. Diaspora is adjacent, not the same entry.
  28. 28AboriginalAncestral beings shape country. Law, kin, and ceremony are how people know. No continental system is filed.
  29. 29IncaLayered pacha, reciprocity, huacas and ancestors. Inca cult of the sun and Cusco is an imperial layer on a wider Andean field.
  30. 31BaháʼíOne God speaks through successive Manifestations. Baháʼu’lláh is claimed as the one for this age. The soul progresses after death and does not return. Knowing runs through authorized writings.
  31. 33HaudenosauneeSky Woman falls. The earth is placed on the turtle. The twins shape that world in opposite ways. The Great Law keeps the Confederacy. Death, rebirth, and a future end are not filed.
  32. 34LakotaWhat is filed is Lakota and marked as Lakota: Wind Cave, the pipe, Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka, the spirit road, the hoop. Dakota is not filled from those lines.
  33. 36DinéPeople emerge onto the surface within four mountains. Hózhǫ́ is the aim. Holy People are not renamed as gods of another tradition. Chants are not retold.
  34. 37HopiEmergence by the sipapu. Maasaw meets the people. Katsinam are their own beings. The covenant is clan and land. A prophecy book is not the source.