Science01
Extraterrestrial life is possible; unknown. No established class of spiritual beings is claimed.
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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Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
- Judaism02
Yes. Angels and other spiritual beings.
Yes. Watchers, angels, giants.
Yes. Angels and fallen beings/demons.
- Islam05
Yes. Angels, jinn, Iblis.
Yes. Devas, asuras, and many other beings.
Yes. Devas and numerous classes of beings.
Yes. Immortals, spirits, deities.
Yes. Gods, spirits.
Yes. Gods, spirits, monsters.
Yes. Æsir, Vanir, jötnar, elves, and others.
Yes. Manidoog and other-than-human persons/beings.
Yes. Gods and supernatural beings.
Yes. Beneficent and destructive spiritual beings.
Yes. Angels and divine beings.
Spiritual beings/thetans. Other thetans, not a separate angelology, are the primary class.
Planets, stars, signs, and celestial powers. Some traditions associate celestial bodies with gods, spirits, intelligences, or other beings.
Yes. Gods, including Enki and Inanna, and the powers who rule the netherworld.
Yes. Gods, Titans, heroes, nymphs, daimones, and others. Who counts, and who is worshiped, changes by city and century.
- Jainism20
Yes. Gods and hell-beings are jīvas in those births. They did not create the world.
- Sikhism21
God is one and without equal. Other powers are not a second divine class in the teaching.
- Shinto22
Yes. Kami, of place, of forces, of ancestors in many cases, and of the myths. They are not one roster.
Yes. Gods of locality and office, ancestors, and ghosts. The bureaucracy of gods is a popular image, not a single canon.
Yes in the elaborate systems: aeons in the fullness, and archons or a demiurge below. Shorter texts may not list them.
Yes. Divine Mind, the powers of the spheres, and daimones in some dialogues. Later magic names many more spirits than the ancient treatises do.
Yes. Òrìṣà and ancestors. Each òrìṣà has their own stories, which are not interchangeable.
Yes. Ancestral beings and other presences, specific to country. They are not a pantheon you can lift out of place.
Yes. Regional gods, the Inca sun among others, huacas, and the dead. The Inca state list was an imperial selection.
God is one. Manifestations of God are the revealers in history. They are not a class of peer deities.
Sky Woman, the twins, and animals who act as persons in the creation. Thunderers appear in many tellings. Not the beings of the other rows under this umbrella.
Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka is left untranslated. Wakíŋyaŋ, the Thunder Beings, and White Buffalo Calf Woman are Lakota. Dakota names are not replaced by these.
Unclassified / Source Needed.
Diyin Dineʼé, the Holy People, including Changing Woman and the Hero Twins Naayééʼ Neizghání and Tóbájíshchíní.
Maasaw and the katsinam. Neither name is used for Diné Holy People or for manidoog.
Tuatha Dé Danann are named. The filed line does not give the rest of an Irish list.
Unclassified / Source Needed.
Gaulish names are said to be known from inscriptions and Roman reports. They are not listed. Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Working synthesis · not a verdict
Yes. Angels, Fallen/Watchers, Builders, dragons, and others.