Articles

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Long form writing on figures, events, ideas and controversies across every tradition the atlas covers, distinct from the shorter facts on the subject's own page. An article takes on a single topic in depth, from a saint's life to a doctrinal dispute to the history of a sacred site, usually running well beyond what a fact card can hold.

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Entries in the Atlas: 31331

Sochial in the Enochian System

Social Science: Studying How a Religious Institution Actually Behaves

Soft Flesh, and the Nose That Vanishes into the Bite

Soft Water, Hard Advantage

Soft When Alive, Stiff When Dead

Soga's Ama-Xosa, Written by the Community It Describes

Sogdian Gods, and the Religions That Travelled the Road

Soka Gakkai International and Komeito

Soka Gakkai: from Educational Society to Buddhist Movement

Sol

Sol Across the Norwegian and Icelandic Poems

Sol and the Sixteen-Rune Reduction

Sola Busca's Reach into the Rider-Waite-Smith

Solar by Agrippa, Not by Culpeper

Solar Warfare, and the Meaning of the Myth of His Birth

Solar, Lunar and Lunisolar

Solar, lunar, lunisolar

Sold for a Pair of Sandals, and a Lion's Roar That Cannot Be Ignored

Sold Rather Than Given, and Never Meant to Be Opened

Soldier and Satanist

Sole Authority, Not Sole Source

Sole Trustee of All Waqf Land in Selangor

Solitary in the Estrangement, and the Meeting of Two Strong Lines

Solitude in the Crowd

Solmisation, a Hymn, and the Problem With Hertz

Solomonic and Angelic Texts

Solomonic and Goetic texts

Solomonic and Kabbalistic Texts

Solomon's Goddess, and Josiah's Demolition

Solomon's House for the Name of the Lord

Solomon's Name, and the Wisdom Traditions Around It

Solomon's Servants, and the Western Genie

Solstice Fires North and South

Solutio in the Laboratory, and the Trouble With Counting Seven

Soma in the Vedic Sacrifice

Soma, Eleusis and the Entheogen Hypothesis

Some Days Get the Whole Song, Others Get Half

Some Modern Pagans Reject the Name Outright

Something Like a Forge Beneath the Surface of the Earth

Something Small That Has Just Arrived

Son of the Sun, Slayer of Monsters

Song and Drum as the Vehicle of Prayer

Song as Worship

Songkran: the Thai New Year

Songs Meant to Travel Outside the Liturgy

Songs of Praise for the Festivals

Songs Set Into the Narrative

Sons and Grandsons Will Not Stop the Sacrifices

Sophia in Gnostic Myth and Later Christian Sophiology

Sophia in Wisdom Literature

Sophia's Error and the Birth of Yaldabaoth

Sophrosyne, the Fourth Stoic Cardinal Virtue

Sorcery Accusation, and a Legal Defence That Was Repealed

Sorrow in the Advance, and the Blessing From the Grandmother

Sorrow Put Into Words

Sorting a Flood of Translation

Sorting Every Category Into Every Other Category

Sorting New Questions into Old Categories

Sorting the Canon: The Tiantai Classification

Sothis, the Nile, and the Oldest Use of a Star

Sotz in the Calendar Round

Sotz, the Month of the Bat

Sou and How Coptic Manuscripts Count

Sou: The Coptic Numeral Sign (Value 6), from Greek Stigma

Soul or Force: A Deliberately Blurred Category

Soul Travel and the Inner Teaching

Soulmates, Karmic Partners, and Soul Contracts

Souls Across Traditions

Sound as Substance

Sounds the Classical Language Did Not Have

Sounds the Table Does Not Have

Sources Braided Into a Single Myth

Sources, Reconciliation and the Reading Cycle

Sources, the Galli, and a Disputed Identity

South Across the Traditions

South Asia's General-Purpose Ghost

Southeast, the Intercardinal Quarter

Southern Skies and Southern Quarters

South-Southeast, a Secondary Point of the Compass Rose

South-Southwest, a Secondary Point of the Compass Rose