This page groups figures by the parent or ancestor their own tradition names for them. Wikipedia notes that anthropology has "developed a number of related concepts and terms in the study of kinship, such as descent, descent group, lineage, affinity/affine, consanguinity/cognate and fictive kinship." Browsing by child-of lets a visitor trace a figure back to the parent a tradition credits as their origin.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingFigures a tradition names as the origin of its teaching. Not every tradition has one, and where one is named the role differs, teacher, prophet, manifestation, so the heading does not name a single kind of person. 2 What Defines This GroupingJainism rejects the description. Mahavira is presented not as a founder but as the twenty-fourth Tirthankara of the present half-cycle, restating a teaching held to have no beginning. 3Tradition: Jainism Learn More
The Founders
This group holds founders, the figures at the origin of a religion, order or tradition, whose life and teaching set it in motion. Founders occupy a special place, remembered as the source from which a whole community traces itself.
The browser will find the founding figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe each within their tradition, and where a founder is also worshipped as a deity or revered as a saint the atlas notes that their story is told from more than one angle across its pages.
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Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005The classification of religious figuresView the Source 3. The Jains
Paul Dundas, Routledge, 2002Mahavira and the historical foundation of JainismView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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