The Cosmological Beliefs

This group gathers cosmological beliefs, the teachings of the traditions about the structure, origin and destiny of the cosmos: how the world came to be, how it is ordered, and how it will end. Every tradition frames human life within some such account of the whole.

The browser will find the cosmological beliefs the atlas gathers. The entries describe each in its own terms, reporting the tradition's own account rather than reconciling the many differing pictures.