Observe the similarities

Toward judgment, restoration, or renewed creation

• JudaismFlood, judgment, restoration.
• EnochicJudgment of corrupt beings and the world.
• ChristianityApocalypse, judgment, renewed creation.
• IslamFinal judgment and transformation.
• ZoroastrianFinal restoration.
• LDSJudgment and renewal.

Repeated cosmic / cosmological cycles

• HinduRepeated cosmic cycles.
• BuddhistCyclic existence; cosmological cycles in many traditions.
• DaoistTransformation and cycles.
• EgyptianCyclical death and renewal.

Successive worlds or a world-ending with a sequel

• MayaPrevious creations and transformations.
• NorseRagnarök followed by a renewed world.
• AnishinaabeFlood and re-creation traditions exist.

A flood, then kingship lowered again

A break and a second beginning in the Sumerian King List. Not a last judgment and not a kalpa wheel.

• SumerianA flood. Ziusudra survives. Kingship is lowered from heaven again, to Kish.

Great ages and celestial recurrence

• AstrologyGreat ages, conjunction cycles, precessional/world-age concepts, and recurring celestial cycles appear in different systems.
• Living RealmPeriodic reset / apocalypse / canopy opening.

Physical time with extinctions; cycles inside a scientific cosmos

• ScienceExtinctions and catastrophes; cosmic endings possible.

Personal recurrence without one-world apocalypse

• ScientologyNot centered on one world apocalypse.

Succession, with philosophical cycles only in some schools

• GreekDivine succession and catastrophic episodes. Not one universal apocalypse.

Eras in a beginningless universe

• JainThe universe is not destroyed. Time moves in ascending and descending eras.

Created history plus a round of births

• SikhCreation does not last forever. A dated apocalypse is not the center of the teaching.

Ritual year, not a cosmic wheel or a last day

• ShintoNot centered on a world-ending apocalypse.

Dynastic and correlative cycles

• ChineseDisorder and the loss of Heaven’s mandate are recorded. Not one apocalypse.

Fall and return, not a good endless wheel

• GnosticThe lower order is to be escaped or undone for the spiritual. Not one flood of a civilization.

Cosmic cycles, and one text’s crisis

• HermeticThe Asclepius laments a loss and return of sacred order in Egypt. Not a universal Hermetic apocalypse.

Not filed as line-to-judgment or as kalpas

• YorubaNot centered on one world-ending apocalypse.

A sequence of settlements, not a cosmic wheel

• IrishInvasions, floods, and the end of a people’s age appear in Irish legend.

Not a simple past and not a kalpa

• AboriginalNot centered on a future end of the world. Local catastrophe stories are not one myth.

Ages and turnings

• IncaWorld-turnings are recorded. Not one flood and not a final judgment.

A line of Manifestations

• BaháʼíEarlier religious cycles are said to be fulfilled, not repeated as equal kalpas.