History

Timeline

Follow the people, books and historical breaks that carried esoteric currents into one another. The layers can be combined without claiming that they form one unbroken lineage.

People and corpora: 83
Works: 214
Periods: 18
Sourced events: 37

Additional researched layers 90 entries

Biblical, Merkavah and Kabbalistic: 45
Muslim and Islamicate: 35
Egyptian human figures: 10

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Where the lives overlap

A path through a much wider history. Horizontal marks are lives; a dot is a floruit where no lifespan is known. Dashed marks mean one or both dates are approximate.

The initial scale begins with Pythagoras. Select the researched biblical, Muslim and Islamicate, Egyptian, or historical-event layers to intersperse their material. The Egyptian layer contains ten human figures and no deities; the Islamicate layer limits people to ten major figures while retaining its books, corpora and milestones. Mythological, legendary and pseudepigraphic identities are named explicitly.

Everything the chart can draw is also written out in full: people, works, events, and the other traditions.