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Martijn Faassen

@whybird

@elithebearded @makeworld

"Nostratic pantheism" sounds cool but makes the warning in this chart about it being speculative rather understated.

The Nostratic language hypothesis is already extremely speculative, let alone anything about the religion practices of those hypothesized speakers.

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Mark Whybird

@faassen @elithebearded @makeworld Your comment made me go looking to see if the chart’s designer had made any updates… and wowsers, look what I found!

Source: patreon.com/posts/all-religion

Holy moley, there are about 500 to 600 religions/faiths/sects/whatever’s in this version of the chart. It is REALLY busy. From afar, it is an amazing rainbow of lines.
Martijn Faassen

@whybird

@elithebearded @makeworld

Looks cool for sure! I can't find the Nostratic pantheism anymore.

I think any connections before recorded history literally spanning thousands of years are speculative at best. Though potentially cultural continuity can be inferred from material artifacts, that doesn't necessarily mean religious continuity.

Whether it even makes sense to call ancient practices a religion is debatable. It's a pretty modern term with implications that may not work

Martijn Faassen

@whybird

@elithebearded @makeworld

In Indo European languages there are hints of shared names for divinities reflected in Greek, Roman, Germanic and Hindu pantheons. This is fascinating!

I am not sure whether such shared linguistics roots exist in other languages. Various middle eastern groups have shared mythologies too but they had continuous close cultural contacts, also shown by Greek mythology having things in common with them.

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