Death & afterlife
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Kongo cosmology
Related Kongo-speaking traditions that connect cycles of life, the ancestral realm, ritual specialists, and community concerns.
West Central Africa · 5 highlights↗Ancient Egyptian wisdom
Ethical teaching, ritual, cosmology, and conceptions of order from ancient Egypt, firmly part of African history.
Northeast Africa · 5 highlights↗Mesopotamian wisdom and Gilgamesh
Mesopotamian literature asks how people face mortality, friendship, rule, and loss.
Iraq · ancient Near East · 5 highlights↗Buddhist traditions
A family of traditions concerned with suffering, impermanence, ethical action, and paths of liberation.
South · East · Southeast Asia · 5 highlights↗Hindu traditions
A vast family of devotional, philosophical, ritual, and contemplative traditions.
South Asia · 5 highlights↗Jaina philosophy
A living tradition with rigorous ethics, accounts of living beings, and disciplined paths of liberation.
South Asia · 5 highlights↗Sikh teachings
A living tradition of devotion, remembrance, equality, and service rooted in the Sikh Gurus and Guru Granth Sahib.
Punjab and global diaspora · 5 highlights↗Zoroastrian traditions
Zoroastrian traditions join worship, ethical choice, prayer, and the ideal of truth.
Iran · South Asia · diaspora · 5 highlights↗Manichaeism and Mani
Manichaeism was a distinct religion founded by Mani in the third century.
Sasanian Iran · Silk Roads · 6 highlights↗Mandaeism
Mandaeism is a living religion with its own scriptures, priesthood, and repeated rites in flowing water.
Iraq · Iran · diaspora · 6 highlights↗Gnostic movements and the problem of the label
Gnosticism is a modern umbrella for varied ancient writings and groups concerned with knowledge, divine reality, and human estrangement.
Late antique Mediterranean · 6 highlights↗Sethian writings
Sethian is a scholarly name for a group of ancient writings that give Seth, son of Adam and Eve, a distinctive place in stories of origin and revelation.
Late antiquity · 6 highlights↗Valentinian Christianity
Valentinian Christians drew on the teaching associated with Valentinus and developed diverse interpretations of God, Christ, ignorance, and restoration.
Second century and later · 6 highlights↗Christian contemplative traditions
Diverse Christian forms of prayer, silence, scriptural meditation, and disciplined attention.
Africa · West Asia · Europe · global · 5 highlights↗Jewish ethical and mystical traditions
A starting map of Jewish practices and schools of moral reflection, study, rest, and mysticism.
West Asia and global diaspora · 5 highlights↗Islamic ethical thought
A broad field of Muslim ethical reflection spanning scripture, law, theology, philosophy, and spiritual disciplines.
Africa · West Asia · Asia · global · 5 highlights↗Neoplatonism and Plotinus
Neoplatonist thinkers developed accounts of reality, mind, soul, and return toward the One.
Roman world · 5 highlights↗Epicurean philosophy
Epicurean philosophy asks how to live pleasantly by understanding needs, friendship, fear, and the natural world.
Mediterranean · 5 highlights↗