{"database": "deitydb", "table": "tradition_profile", "is_view": false, "human_description_en": "", "rows": [["19th-century occultism", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "A learned ritual-magic / grimoire tradition \u2014 historically present and genuinely influential, but a textual subculture of a few literate specialists, framed within and drawing on the dominant religion rather than a mainstream faith in its own right."], ["Aksumite", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Alawite", "heterodox-sect", "living-minority", "Alawite / Nusayri \u2014 a living Syrian religion with the \u02bfAyn-Mim-Sin trinity; an esoteric offshoot of Twelver Shi'a Islam."], ["Alchemical", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "Western alchemy as a spiritual-symbolic system \u2014 the personified principles (tria prima, the King & Queen, the Rebis, Azoth)."], ["Alevi", "mystical-current", "living-minority", "Alevi-Bektashi \u2014 a living Anatolian tradition blending Shi'a, Sufi and folk elements around the Allah-Muhammad-Ali trinity and the Assembly of the Forty."], ["Ammonite", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Anglo-Saxon", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The pre-Christian Old English pantheon (Woden, Thunor, Tiw, Frige, \u0112ostre), reconstructed from royal genealogies, place-names, Bede and charms."], ["Anthroposophy", "modern-esoteric", "modern-revival", "A modern (19th-20th c.) esoteric movement \u2014 an organized but comparatively small new-religious / occult current, not a mainstream faith."], ["Aramean", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Armenian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Armenian Christian", "mainstream-scriptural", "regional", "The Armenian Apostolic Church \u2014 the world's first state church; distinct from the pre-Christian Armenian pantheon."], ["Arthurian", "legendary-literary", "literary", "A legendary/literary mythos rather than a practiced religion \u2014 its figures live in story (and, for the Grail, in Christian devotion), but it was never the cult of a community."], ["Astral Magic", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "A learned ritual-magic / grimoire tradition \u2014 historically present and genuinely influential, but a textual subculture of a few literate specialists, framed within and drawing on the dominant religion rather than a mainstream faith in its own right."], ["Bah\u00e1'\u00ed", "mainstream-scriptural", "modern-worldwide", "The Bah\u00e1'\u00ed Faith \u2014 an independent modern world religion of Abrahamic lineage built on progressive revelation through the Manifestations of God."], ["Baltic", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Basilidean", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "A heterodox or minority sect \u2014 a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith."], ["Basque", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Canaanite/Ugaritic", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Carian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The Carian civic polytheism of SW Anatolia, centered on Zeus Labraundos and the great Hecate of Lagina."], ["Carpocratian", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "A heterodox or minority sect \u2014 a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith."], ["Celtic/British", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Celtic/Gaulish", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Celtic/Gaulish/Roman", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Celtic/Irish", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Celtic/Welsh", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Christian", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Christian demonology", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "The learned Christian demonological tradition beyond the Goetia \u2014 the demonologists' chief-demon hierarchies (the Seven Princes, the Loudun possession demons)."], ["Christian reception", "mainstream-scriptural", "regional", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Christian/Biblical", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Christian/Heterodox", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "Intra-Christian heresies and dualist movements (Arian, Nestorian, Pelagian, Bogomil, Cathar) \u2014 condemned/suppressed by the mainstream church."], ["Christian/Orthodox", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Christian/Theurgic", "mystical-current", "widespread", "The Pseudo-Dionysian / Christian-theurgic current \u2014 mainstream Christian theology of the angelic hierarchy, contemplative rather than a separate religion."], ["Commagene", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The syncretic Hellenistic-Iranian royal cult of Commagene (Antiochus I, Nemrud Da\u011f): Zeus-Oromasdes, Apollo-Mithras, Artagnes-Heracles."], ["Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion", "vernacular-folklore", "emergent", "Contemporary vernacular & digital folklore \u2014 emergent supernatural beings people genuinely engage ritually (summoning), devotionally (petition/veneration), or apotropaically (warding/protection), outside any organized religion: urban legends, cryptids, sleep-paralysis and entheogenic encounter-entities, meme-magic egregores, and New Age / Gen-Z devotional currents. Lived belief and practice (ostension), NOT fiction \u2014 purely fictional creepypasta and franchises are excluded."], ["Continental Germanic", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The Romano-Germanic continental deities and the Matronae (triple mother-goddesses) of the Rhineland, attested mostly in Roman-era votive inscriptions."], ["Coptic Christian", "mainstream-scriptural", "regional", "Coptic (Egyptian) Christianity \u2014 the church of Athanasius and Shenoute, cradle of monasticism."], ["Cross-traditional", "comparative", "abstraction", "Not a religion: a cross-traditional layer of shared abstractions used for comparison."], ["Dacian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Discordianism", "modern-esoteric", "modern-worldwide", "Discordianism \u2014 a genuinely-engaged absurdist religion venerating Eris/Discordia (Principia Discordia, 1958+)."], ["Druze", "heterodox-sect", "living-minority", "The Druze (Muwahhidun) \u2014 a closed living religion of the Levant, an offshoot of Ismaili Islam with its own cosmology of the five luminaries (al-hudud)."], ["Edomite", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Egyptian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Elamite", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Ethiopian Christian", "mainstream-scriptural", "regional", "Ethiopian Tewahedo Christianity \u2014 a major non-Chalcedonian church with the Kebra Nagast cycle and its own saints and angelology."], ["Etruscan", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Finnish", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Folk Catholic", "vernacular-folklore", "living-regional", "The folk-canonized (unofficial) saints of Latin America \u2014 genuinely venerated but unrecognized by Rome (Santa Muerte, Maxim\u00f3n, Jes\u00fas Malverde)."], ["Germanic Legend", "legendary-literary", "literary", "The Germanic heroic-legendary cycle (the V\u00f6lsung/Nibelung matter \u2014 Sigur\u00f0, Brynhild, Wayland) \u2014 a mythos in saga and epic, like the Arthurian material."], ["Germanic/Norse", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Gnostic", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "A heterodox or minority sect \u2014 a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith."], ["Goetic/Solomonic", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "A learned ritual-magic / grimoire tradition \u2014 historically present and genuinely influential, but a textual subculture of a few literate specialists, framed within and drawing on the dominant religion rather than a mainstream faith in its own right."], ["Greco-Egyptian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greco-Egyptian Magical", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "A learned ritual-magic / grimoire tradition \u2014 historically present and genuinely influential, but a textual subculture of a few literate specialists, framed within and drawing on the dominant religion rather than a mainstream faith in its own right."], ["Greco-Egyptian/Libyan", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek/Anatolian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek/Orphic", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek/Phrygian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek/Phrygian/Cretan", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek/Rhodian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek/Roman", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Greek/Roman/Egyptian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Hermetic/Greco-Egyptian", "mystical-current", "learned-subculture", "A mystical or contemplative current embedded WITHIN a mainstream faith, practiced by a devout minority \u2014 not a separate religion."], ["Hermetic/Theurgic", "mystical-current", "learned-subculture", "A mystical or contemplative current embedded WITHIN a mainstream faith, practiced by a devout minority \u2014 not a separate religion."], ["Hittite", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Hittite/Hurrian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Hungarian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Iberian/Lusitanian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Illyrian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The Illyrian pantheon of the western Balkans (Medaurus, Redon, En), attested in inscriptions and Roman interpretatio."], ["Islamic", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Islamic/Shi'a", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Islamic/Sufi", "mystical-current", "widespread", "A mystical or contemplative current embedded WITHIN a mainstream faith, practiced by a devout minority \u2014 not a separate religion."], ["Islamic/Sufi/Shi'a", "mystical-current", "regional", "A mystical or contemplative current embedded WITHIN a mainstream faith, practiced by a devout minority \u2014 not a separate religion."], ["Israelite", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Israelite/Second Temple", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Italic/Sabine", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Jewish", "mainstream-scriptural", "dominant", "A mainstream scriptural religion \u2014 the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population."], ["Jewish Mystical", "mystical-current", "learned-subculture", "Kabbalah and Merkavah mysticism \u2014 a learned esoteric current embedded within Judaism, transmitted among a devout scholarly minority."], ["Late Antique Ritual", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "A learned ritual-magic / grimoire tradition \u2014 historically present and genuinely influential, but a textual subculture of a few literate specialists, framed within and drawing on the dominant religion rather than a mainstream faith in its own right."], ["Latter-day Saint", "mainstream-scriptural", "modern-worldwide", "The Latter-day Saint (Mormon) movement \u2014 a large modern Restorationist branch of Christianity with a distinctive cosmology (premortal existence, exaltation, Kolob)."], ["Luwian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Lycian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The Lycian civic polytheism of SW Anatolia (Trqqas, the Twelve Gods, Eni Mahanahi)."], ["Lydian", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The Lydian pantheon of Iron-Age western Anatolia (Kuvava/Kybebe, Santas), ancestral to several Greek-Anatolian cults."], ["Mandaean", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "The Mandaeans \u2014 a small gnostic baptismal religion, marginal and surviving as a minority to the present."], ["Manichaean", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "Manichaeism \u2014 once a widespread world religion from Rome to China, later suppressed everywhere and extinct; a major but ultimately marginalized sect."], ["Marcionite", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "A heterodox or minority sect \u2014 a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith."], ["Masonic/Rosicrucian", "esoteric-magic", "learned-subculture", "Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism \u2014 fraternal esoteric traditions (the Great Architect, Hiram Abiff, Christian Rosenkreutz)."], ["Meroitic", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Mesoamerican", "civic-polytheism", "pre-Columbian source", "Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican religion, included here ONLY at its documented Catholic-syncretism seams (e.g. Tonantzin \u2192 Our Lady of Guadalupe) \u2014 not the full pantheon."], ["Mesopotamian", "civic-polytheism", "dominant", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Mithraic Mysteries", "mystical-current", "Roman-imperial initiatory", "The Roman cult of Mithras \u2014 an initiatory all-male mystery religion of the imperial army (2nd-4th c. CE), structured around the tauroctony and seven grades."], ["Moabite", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Modern Occult", "modern-esoteric", "modern-revival", "A modern (19th-20th c.) esoteric movement \u2014 an organized but comparatively small new-religious / occult current, not a mainstream faith."], ["Modern Paganism", "modern-esoteric", "modern-worldwide", "Reconstructionist & revival paganism beyond Wicca \u2014 modern Heathenry/\u00c1satr\u00fa, Druidry, the Goddess movement, plus Martinist/New-Thought currents."], ["Modern Satanism", "modern-esoteric", "modern-worldwide", "Organized modern Satanism, Luciferianism and the Temple of Set (Church of Satan 1966, The Satanic Temple, Temple of Set) \u2014 symbolic and theistic currents."], ["Modern reception", "modern-esoteric", "modern-revival", "A modern (19th-20th c.) esoteric movement \u2014 an organized but comparatively small new-religious / occult current, not a mainstream faith."], ["Mycenaean", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Nabataean", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "An established civic/state polytheism \u2014 the mainstream public religion of its society in its era."], ["Nart (Ossetian/Sarmatian)", "civic-polytheism", "regional", "The Nart sagas of the Caucasus \u2014 the surviving Scythian/Sarmatian-Alanic mythology (Batraz, Satana, Uastyrdzhi), a living oral epic among the Ossetians and neighbours."], ["Ophite/Archontic", "heterodox-sect", "marginal", "A heterodox or minority sect \u2014 a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith."]], "truncated": false, "filtered_table_rows_count": 135, "expanded_columns": [], "expandable_columns": [], "columns": ["tradition", "tradition_class", "prevalence", "status_note"], "primary_keys": ["tradition"], "units": {}, "query": {"sql": "select tradition, tradition_class, prevalence, status_note from tradition_profile order by tradition limit 101", "params": {}}, "facet_results": {}, "suggested_facets": [{"name": "tradition_class", "toggle_url": "http://deitydb-explorer.fly.dev/deitydb/tradition_profile.json?_facet=tradition_class"}, {"name": "prevalence", "toggle_url": "http://deitydb-explorer.fly.dev/deitydb/tradition_profile.json?_facet=prevalence"}], "next": "Ophite~2FArchontic", "next_url": "http://deitydb-explorer.fly.dev/deitydb/tradition_profile.json?_next=Ophite~2FArchontic", "private": false, "allow_execute_sql": true, "query_ms": 36.71312799997395, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}