Does history operate linearly or cyclically?
29/40 filed · 19 shapes
Line or wheel
A flood plus a last judgment is not the same clock as kalpas, or as Ragnarök, or as extinctions. Group by the kind of time the record actually uses.
Quoted from Destruction / Reset
Toward judgment, restoration, or renewed creation
6
Repeated cosmic / cosmological cycles
4
Successive worlds or a world-ending with a sequel
3
A flood, then kingship lowered again
1
A break and a second beginning in the Sumerian King List. Not a last judgment and not a kalpa wheel.
Great ages and celestial recurrence
1
Physical time with extinctions; cycles inside a scientific cosmos
1
Personal recurrence without one-world apocalypse
1
Succession, with philosophical cycles only in some schools
1
Eras in a beginningless universe
1
Created history plus a round of births
1
Ritual year, not a cosmic wheel or a last day
1
Dynastic and correlative cycles
1
Fall and return, not a good endless wheel
1
Cosmic cycles, and one text’s crisis
1
Not filed as line-to-judgment or as kalpas
1
A sequence of settlements, not a cosmic wheel
1
Not a simple past and not a kalpa
1
Ages and turnings
1
A line of Manifestations
1
Unplaced
These records were not filed in any shape of this metric. The cell is still quoted.
- MesopotamianGreat flood and catastrophe traditions.
- HaudenosauneeUnclassified / Source Needed.
- LakotaUnclassified / Source Needed.
- DakotaUnclassified / Source Needed.
- DinéNaayééʼ, the monsters, are overcome in the narratives. A future end of the world is Unclassified / Source Needed.
- HopiEarlier worlds were left. Continuation of this world is tied to keeping the covenant. A single prophecy text is not filed.
- WelshUnclassified / Source Needed.
- GaulishUnclassified / Source Needed.
- MāoriUnclassified / Source Needed.
- HawaiianUnclassified / Source Needed.
- TahitianUnclassified / Source Needed.