Each word stays where it was written

Glossary

Terms already on the chart, defined only in the tradition that uses them. Meru is not Yggdrasil. A world tree is not an omphalos. Similar shapes are not combined here. Cross-links are not drawn yet.

41 entries · 39 terms · none merged

  1. aeons

    Gnostic Traditions

    Aeons appear in many of the systems filed here. Names and ranks differ.

    Not archons, and not the demiurge. Those words sit in the same sentence and stay separate entries.

  2. Æsir

    Norse Traditions

    Named beside Vanir, jötnar, and elves. No further definition is filed.

  3. Anunnaki

    Mesopotamian Traditions

    Standard editions read Anunnaki as a group of gods. The name is in the texts. The chart does not add a sentence of its own to the Mesopotamian cell.

    Not a species with a home planet. That reading is an author’s, and it is not this entry.

  4. archons

    Gnostic Traditions

    Archons appear in many of the systems filed here. Names and ranks differ.

    Not aeons, and not the demiurge.

  5. ātman

    Hindu Traditions

    Ātman, or self, is not one Hindu claim. The cell says the concepts vary by school.

  6. Ayé

    Yoruba Traditions

    Ayé and òrun are paired. A single sacred mountain as world-axis is not the governing image.

    Ayé is not òrun.

  7. ayni

    Inca Traditions

    Ayni is reciprocity with community, the dead, and powers of the land.

  8. Cusco

    Inca Traditions

    Cusco is an Inca center.

    Not a universal Andean axis, and not Meru.

  9. Dao

    Daoist Traditions

    Heaven, Earth, and humanity as an interconnected process of the Dao.

  10. demiurge

    Gnostic Traditions

    A demiurge appears in many of the systems filed here. Names and ranks differ.

    One famous demiurge story is not the definition of every text grouped under this label.

  11. haumai

    Sikhism

    Awareness is bound up with haumai or with remembrance of God. The cell does not translate haumai into another tradition’s word.

  12. huaca

    Inca Traditions

    Huacas belong with gods and the dead. Other Andean peoples have their own huacas.

    Not a world-tree, and not Meru.

  13. hukam

    Sikhism

    A soul bearing self-centeredness, able to remember God and live in hukam. Hukam is not haumai.

  14. jīva

    Jainism

    An embodied jīva, bound by karma. The jīva is conscious. Karma limits what it knows. This is not an ātman entry.

  15. jötnar

    Norse Traditions

    Named beside Æsir, Vanir, and elves. The cell does not define them as gods, and it does not define them as humans.

  16. Kaaba

    Islam

    The Kaaba is recorded as earthly orientation in sacred geography.

    Not the same claim as a cosmic Mount Meru.

  17. kami

    Shinto

    People live among kami. Shrines, land, and kami are the structure named here. No single world-axis is required.

  18. lokas

    Hindu Traditions

    Many lokas, or realms. The word is not Mount Meru, and it is not a count of them.

  19. mana

    Polynesian Traditions

    Mana is a widespread term. It is not one definition of the person, and it is not the same word as tapu.

  20. manidoog

    Anishinaabe / Ojibwe Traditions

    Manidoog and other-than-human persons. The record stays relational — land, water, and those persons.

    Not rewritten here as a Meru, and not as Yggdrasil.

  21. me

    Sumerian Traditions

    The divine powers of crafts, rites, and offices. Inanna takes them from Enki in Eridu and brings them to Uruk. The Sumerian cell calls them divine offices. No single cosmic axis is in these texts.

  22. Meru

    Buddhist Traditions

    Meru cosmology appears in traditional Buddhist cosmologies. The cell does not say Mount Meru, and it does not say what a Hindu school means by the mountain.

  23. Midgard

    Norse Traditions

    Midgard is one of the worlds organized around Yggdrasil, the one this record places people in. It is not the axis.

  24. moon interval

    The Living RealmWorking synthesis

    The working cell for death is “Moon interval.” No other row uses this phrase.

  25. Mount Meru

    Hindu Traditions

    Mount Meru appears in Hindu cosmological traditions, often placed at the axis. Accounts vary enormously by school. Ātman is a different word and varies by school.

  26. Mount Meru

    Jainism

    Traditional Jain cosmology places Mount Meru in the middle world. It is a Jain cosmological object.

    Not the Hindu or Buddhist Meru, and not a claim that the traditions match.

  27. Mount Meru

    The Living RealmWorking synthesis

    The working line says Mount Meru is the heart, and the axis.

    Working synthesis. It does not replace the Hindu, Buddhist, or Jain entry.

  28. nibiru

    Mesopotamian Traditions

    In the astronomical texts, nibiru is a name used for celestial bodies and for a crossing.

    Not a demonstrated world on a 3,600-year orbit.

  29. omphalos

    Greek Traditions

    Delphi’s omphalos is a sacred center for some Greeks, not a cosmic mountain holding the universe. No single axis is required.

    An omphalos is not a world-tree.

  30. orí

    Yoruba Traditions

    Orí is destiny, or inner head. It is not the word òrìṣà.

  31. òrìṣà

    Yoruba Traditions

    Òrìṣà are kept unmerged. A person lives among òrìṣà and kin. Diaspora houses are not identical with this line.

  32. òrun

    Yoruba Traditions

    Òrun is the other of the pair with Ayé. The cell does not draw it as a Meru.

  33. Ragnarök

    Norse Traditions

    Ragnarök is followed by a renewed world. The cell does not call that flood, and it does not call it Meru.

  34. tapu

    Polynesian Traditions

    Tapu is a widespread term. It is not one definition of the person, and it is not mana.

  35. thetan

    Scientology

    Spiritual beings, called thetans. The thetan precedes the body. The material universe is not the thetan’s ultimate identity.

  36. Vanir

    Norse Traditions

    Named beside Æsir, jötnar, and elves. No further definition is filed. Not another spelling of Æsir.

  37. Watchers

    Enochic / Dead Sea Scroll Traditions

    In the Book of the Watchers they descend, desire human women, and father giants. They teach arts that booklet calls forbidden. The Enochic cell names them beside angels and giants. Those are not one word.

  38. world tree

    Maya Traditions

    The Maya cell says a world tree, or cosmic axis, ordering layered heavens and underworlds after successive creations.

    Not Yggdrasil. The Norse tree keeps its own name.

  39. xin

    Chinese Traditional Religion/Cosmology

    Heart-mind (xin) is a classical term for knowing and feeling. It is not one theory across popular religion, Confucian learning, and later medicine.

  40. Yggdrasil

    Norse Traditions

    Yggdrasil is the world axis. Multiple worlds are organized around it. The cell writes “Yggdrasil / world axis.”

    Not a Mount Meru, and not the Maya world tree.

  41. Ziusudra

    Sumerian Traditions

    King and priest who survives the flood in a boat and is granted life like a god. The survivor is named. The tablet is broken.