Observe the similarities

Yes — reality itself is alive; humanity participates in the organism

• Living RealmReality itself is alive.

Relational living world; other-than-human persons

Among the strongest living-world records. Not identical to the working synthesis.

• AnishinaabeCreation understood relationally; accounts vary.

Interconnected process (Heaven / Earth / humanity, or cosmic pattern)

• DaoistDao underlying or preceding differentiation.
• AstrologyCosmos and human life participate in an interconnected order; celestial configurations are traditionally understood as corresponding with terrestrial conditions and events.

Created, ordered, or conditioned — not recorded as one organism

• JudaismCreation by God.
• ChristianityCreation by God.
• IslamCreation by Allah.
• EnochicCreated cosmos under divine order.
• HinduReality and cosmos expressed cyclically; varies enormously by school.
• BuddhistNo single creator required.
• EgyptianOrdered cosmos emerges from primordial state.
• MesopotamianGods establish cosmic order.
• SumerianNo single cosmogony in the texts filed here. Kingship is lowered from heaven.
• NorseCosmos organized from primordial processes.
• MayaCreation involves successive ordering or attempts.
• ZoroastrianOrdered creation opposed by destructive force.
• LDSEternal or preexistent elements/intelligences; God organizes creation.
• ScientologySpiritual beings precede present embodied existence.

Physical processes; life is biological within the cosmos

• ScienceCosmos governed by physical processes.

A living cosmos in one philosophical text, not in all

• GreekA cosmos from primordial conditions. Chaos, divine succession, and philosophical ordering are not one account.

Full of living souls — not one organism

• JainNo creator god. The universe is eternal and runs by its own order.
• YorubaOlódùmarè as source, with òrìṣà carrying creation in many accounts. Not one written canon.

Creation pervaded or populated — not filed as one organism

• SikhOne God, who creates and pervades the world.
• ShintoLand and kami arise in myth. There is no single creator-god doctrine across Shinto.
• ChineseHeaven and generative process. Not one creation myth across Chinese tradition.
• IncaViracocha, or other figures, orders the world in some Inca and Andean accounts. Local origins differ.

Cosmos often a prison, not a living heart

• GnosticA highest divine reality, and in many systems a lesser maker of the material world. Schools differ.

Cosmos called living in several Hermetic texts

A Hermetic sentence. Not the working synthesis.

• HermeticDivine Mind and an ordered cosmos, often called living. The Hermetica do not agree in every treatise.

Country lived with — not one continental organism

• AboriginalAncestral beings shape country. There is no single Aboriginal creation story.

Creation valued, not one organism

• BaháʼíOne God, revealed through a series of Manifestations. Baháʼu’lláh is claimed as the latest.