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19th-century occultism esoteric-magic learned-subculture A learned ritual-magic / grimoire tradition — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Alawite heterodox-sect living-minority Alawite / Nusayri — a living Syrian religion with the ʿAyn-Mim-Sin trinity; an esoteric offshoot of Twelver Shi'a Islam.
Alchemical esoteric-magic learned-subculture Western alchemy as a spiritual-symbolic system — the personified principles (tria prima, the King & Queen, the Rebis, Azoth).
Alevi mystical-current living-minority Alevi-Bektashi — 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 — 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, Ēostre), reconstructed from royal genealogies, place-names, Bede and charms.
Anthroposophy modern-esoteric modern-revival A modern (19th-20th c.) esoteric movement — an organized but comparatively small new-religious / occult current, not a mainstream faith.
Aramean civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Armenian civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Armenian Christian mainstream-scriptural regional The Armenian Apostolic Church — 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 — 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 — 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.
Bahá'í mainstream-scriptural modern-worldwide The Bahá'í Faith — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Basilidean heterodox-sect marginal A heterodox or minority sect — a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith.
Basque civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Canaanite/Ugaritic civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — 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 — a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith.
Celtic/British civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Celtic/Gaulish civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Celtic/Gaulish/Roman civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Celtic/Irish civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Celtic/Welsh civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Christian mainstream-scriptural dominant A mainstream scriptural religion — 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 — the demonologists' chief-demon hierarchies (the Seven Princes, the Loudun possession demons).
Christian reception mainstream-scriptural regional A mainstream scriptural religion — the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population.
Christian/Biblical mainstream-scriptural dominant A mainstream scriptural religion — 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) — condemned/suppressed by the mainstream church.
Christian/Orthodox mainstream-scriptural dominant A mainstream scriptural religion — the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population.
Christian/Theurgic mystical-current widespread The Pseudo-Dionysian / Christian-theurgic current — 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 Dağ): Zeus-Oromasdes, Apollo-Mithras, Artagnes-Heracles.
Contemporary Folklore & Vernacular Religion vernacular-folklore emergent Contemporary vernacular & digital folklore — 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 — 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 — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Discordianism modern-esoteric modern-worldwide Discordianism — a genuinely-engaged absurdist religion venerating Eris/Discordia (Principia Discordia, 1958+).
Druze heterodox-sect living-minority The Druze (Muwahhidun) — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Egyptian civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Elamite civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Ethiopian Christian mainstream-scriptural regional Ethiopian Tewahedo Christianity — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Finnish civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Folk Catholic vernacular-folklore living-regional The folk-canonized (unofficial) saints of Latin America — genuinely venerated but unrecognized by Rome (Santa Muerte, Maximón, Jesús Malverde).
Germanic Legend legendary-literary literary The Germanic heroic-legendary cycle (the Völsung/Nibelung matter — Sigurð, Brynhild, Wayland) — a mythos in saga and epic, like the Arthurian material.
Germanic/Norse civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Gnostic heterodox-sect marginal A heterodox or minority sect — 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 — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greco-Egyptian Magical esoteric-magic learned-subculture A learned ritual-magic / grimoire tradition — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek/Anatolian civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek/Orphic civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek/Phrygian civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek/Phrygian/Cretan civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek/Rhodian civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek/Roman civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Greek/Roman/Egyptian civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — 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 — 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 — not a separate religion.
Hittite civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Hittite/Hurrian civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Hungarian civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Iberian/Lusitanian civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — 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 — the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population.
Islamic/Shi'a mainstream-scriptural dominant A mainstream scriptural religion — 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 — 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 — not a separate religion.
Israelite mainstream-scriptural dominant A mainstream scriptural religion — the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population.
Israelite/Second Temple mainstream-scriptural dominant A mainstream scriptural religion — the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population.
Italic/Sabine civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Jewish mainstream-scriptural dominant A mainstream scriptural religion — the dominant faith of its society, worshipped communally by the broad population.
Jewish Mystical mystical-current learned-subculture Kabbalah and Merkavah mysticism — 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 — 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 — a large modern Restorationist branch of Christianity with a distinctive cosmology (premortal existence, exaltation, Kolob).
Luwian civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — 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 — a small gnostic baptismal religion, marginal and surviving as a minority to the present.
Manichaean heterodox-sect marginal Manichaeism — 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 — a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith.
Masonic/Rosicrucian esoteric-magic learned-subculture Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism — fraternal esoteric traditions (the Great Architect, Hiram Abiff, Christian Rosenkreutz).
Meroitic civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — 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 → Our Lady of Guadalupe) — not the full pantheon.
Mesopotamian civic-polytheism dominant An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Mithraic Mysteries mystical-current Roman-imperial initiatory The Roman cult of Mithras — 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 — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Modern Occult modern-esoteric modern-revival A modern (19th-20th c.) esoteric movement — an organized but comparatively small new-religious / occult current, not a mainstream faith.
Modern Paganism modern-esoteric modern-worldwide Reconstructionist & revival paganism beyond Wicca — modern Heathenry/Ásatrú, 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) — symbolic and theistic currents.
Modern reception modern-esoteric modern-revival A modern (19th-20th c.) esoteric movement — an organized but comparatively small new-religious / occult current, not a mainstream faith.
Mycenaean civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Nabataean civic-polytheism regional An established civic/state polytheism — the mainstream public religion of its society in its era.
Nart (Ossetian/Sarmatian) civic-polytheism regional The Nart sagas of the Caucasus — 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 — a real religious community but marginal to, and often suppressed by, the dominant faith.

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CREATE TABLE [tradition_profile] (
   [tradition] TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
   [tradition_class] TEXT,
   [prevalence] TEXT,
   [status_note] TEXT
);