There are some things where I learn better through visual tools. I think I would benefit from a timeline chart of the various religions (including greek/roman religion/mythology, egyptian gods, etc). Ideally with Eastern religions included as well.

I'd like to get a wall poster of these timelines; hopefully not too expensive and from a reliable source / seller (not some fly by night seller, but actual Prime, or brick and mortar store like B&N or something).

I found a couple of examples that are close (and maybe what I might have to accept). But asking if anything better available and from where.

https://a.co/d/07KjBrV8 (this is for eastern religions; can't find one for western, only one for christianity).

https://a.co/d/035Wk06p (one for christianity but would like other western religions including greek/roman).

Other info that would be nice if included in the chart might be things like (as part of timeline flow) - percentage of global population as followers, global regions of prevalence,

Thanks. That looks like it goes into some fair amount of detail in judaism, christianity. And perhaps other (US centric by comments) other (irrelevant) social-political trends.

I'm looking for a simpler linear timeline (with some scale) that includes various western and eastern religions, including greek/roman mythology.

Something conceptually like this: https://a.co/d/0jgxY4pB

How about UsefulCharts ?

Ask your chosen AI assistant. Simply ask it to create a table and chart if it cannot find one already made. Define major for it as a religion with at least xx,xxx,xxx adherents. Require that it give its references as an appendix as typically cited in an academic paper.

While not directly what you described, there a quite a few visual aids that fit your comment about learning visually here: Wes Huff Infographics

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How about UsefulCharts ?

Pretty good - almost there. But the timeline seems hard to follow. Also, (perhaps not critical) would like to see things like greek/roman mythology and/or whatever was displaced in Rome by Catholicism, when the Vatican was created, when/how islam crept into india / southeast issue (how did it grow over time, what did it displace). This latter stuff could be separate charts. But looking for a decent foundational timeline as a foundation.

This chart is still good - beginnings and evolution of major religions. I may pick it up. But looking for more....

Thanks!

I think this is what I'm looking for - trying to clarify what I think I want to see in a chart:

For any particular region (europe, mid-east, india, asia, SE asia, americas (n and s)), what religions evolved / devolved over time, what religions were prevalent at any given moment/period (granularity 100 years?) in that general region. Perhaps by key sects (ie - christian denomination, islam type, whatever).

Trying to better understand how religions evolved and become adapted over time for various global regions, including what got displaced and what displaced them.

TMK the Classical Pagans, didn’t actually believe in their gods.

They had philosophy instead, other than the Isis/Dionysus and Mithras cults.

Talking about those cults, carried the death penalty so I’m not sure how much is known.

There were also a lot of non-Jewish Roman who were worshipping God as well.

From a believer’s perspective, many pagans tend to get “echos”.

The Mithras cult members rapidly became Christian. Pagans worshipping the tree of life, rapidly came to understand the Cross as The Tree of Life and of the body and blood of Christ as the fruit of that tree, which offsets the poison eaten by Adam.

Christianity’s spread was explosive.

This happened in a few ways.

In large part, because there were lots of witnesses, in a culture which bearing false witness was a capital crime, and which had a robust trade network.


(It wasn’t “I saw a guy who saw a guy” it was “5 years ago, 500 of us from this small town all witnessed this. We wrote it down, and now are out talking about it. If you don’t believe me, there’s still lots of witnesses in this town which some of you go to, regularly. I am willing to risk death to tell this to you, because of how important it was.”