Science01
No sacred mountain, tree, or world-axis is required. The structure is the observable cosmos.
Asked of every system
Twenty-two questions
The same questions, asked in the same order. Read down a question to see where they rhyme and where they do not. No establishment is rewritten to fit the others.
- 01Where are we?
- 02What is reality made of?
- 03What is a human being?
- 04What is consciousness?
- 05Where did humanity come from?
- 06What happens at death?
- 07Does consciousness return to embodiment?
- 08Where is consciousness between lives?
- 09Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
- 10Can those beings become human or appear human?
- 11Are there multiple realms or worlds?
- 12Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
- 13Is the world itself alive?
- 14Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?
- 15Does history operate linearly or cyclically?
- 16Is there an opposing positive/negative force?
- 17What is humanity supposed to become?
- 18Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?
- 19What lies beyond the visible world?
- 20How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
- 21Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?
- 22Why did humanity forget?
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Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
- Judaism02
A created, ordered world. Sacred center traditions (Temple, Zion, and related geography) exist in many streams without a universal Meru-style cosmic mountain in this chart.
A layered supernatural cosmos. A single named world-mountain is not the center of this record.
A created cosmos. Sacred centers exist in tradition and pilgrimage; a single cosmic mountain/tree as world-axis is not the governing image here.
- Islam05
Ordered creation. Sacred geography (including the Kaaba as earthly orientation) is not the same claim as a cosmic Mount Meru.
Mount Meru appears in cosmological traditions.
Meru cosmology appears in traditional cosmologies.
Heaven, Earth, and humanity interconnected — an axis of relationship more than a single named mountain in this chart.
Cosmic order and solar journey, rather than a single world-tree or Meru in this record.
Cosmic geography varies. A single universal axis is not isolated here.
Yes. Yggdrasil / world axis.
Land, water, and cosmos understood relationally rather than as a simple mechanical map. Not a Meru/Yggdrasil diagram.
Yes. World tree / cosmic axis.
Ordered creation. A single world-tree or Meru is not the governing image in this chart.
Vast inhabited creation. A single terrestrial world-axis is not the governing image here.
The material universe is not ultimate identity. No Mount Meru or world-tree is recorded as the axis of this teaching.
Zodiac, planetary spheres, houses, directions, celestial cycles, and geometric relationships — a celestial, not mountainous, structure.
No single cosmic mountain, tree, or axis in the texts filed here. The me move from Eridu to Uruk. Cities matter. That is not a world-axis.
Delphi’s omphalos is a sacred center for some Greeks, not a cosmic mountain holding the universe. No single axis is required.
- Jainism20
Traditional cosmology places Mount Meru at the middle world. It is a Jain cosmological object, not a claim that Jainism is Hinduism.
- Sikhism21
No cosmic mountain, tree, or axis is the structure of the faith. The community and the scripture are the practical centers.
- Shinto22
A shrine sanctifies a place. That is local, not a world-pillar doctrine. Some myths speak of a heavenly pillar; that is myth, not a requirement of every shrine.
Heaven over Earth, with the human realm between, is the usual vertical. A world-tree is not the standard. Beijing’s altar is imperial ritual, not every village’s axis.
No Meru and no world-tree. The ‘center’ that matters in these systems is the fullness, not a mountain on earth.
The structure is spheres around the earth in the ancient picture, not a tree or a Meru.
Ayé and òrun are paired. A single sacred mountain as world-axis is not the governing image. Cities and groves are local centers.
The structure is country and track. Sacred sites are many. They are not one continental axis.
Layers, and in the Inca state a political center at Cusco. Other Andean peoples have their own huacas. Not a world-tree.
No cosmic mountain, tree, or axis is the structure of the faith.
No world-tree and no Meru. The world is on the turtle’s back. The hole Sky Woman fell through is an opening in the sky world, not an axis for other nations.
The Lakota sacred hoop is not a world-tree and not Meru. It is not assigned to Dakota here.
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Sisnaajiní, Tsoodził, Dookʼoʼoosłííd, and Dibé Ntsaa bound Dinétah. They are not Meru and not a world-tree.
The sipapu is an opening, not a world-mountain and not a tree.
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Working synthesis · not a verdict
Mount Meru is the heart / axis.