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A designation for traditions, figures or concepts that are worldwide rather than tied to a single continent. It is the atlas's own marker rather than a category any tradition uses, and it carries the material whose spread is itself the point.

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Attributions
Tradition
Greek astrological material was translated into Sanskrit, and later into Arabic, Persian and Latin, so the transmission crossed continents repeatedly and in more than one direction. 1Tradition: Traditional Western astrology
Tradition
Horoscopic astrology has Mesopotamian foundations, an Egyptian layer, a Greek synthesis, an Indian line of development, an Arabic and Persian systematisation and a Latin European consolidation, so no single continent holds it. 2Tradition: Traditional Western astrology
Correspondences
Zodiac Rulership
None assigned. As the atlas's own worldwide marker rather than a region any classical chorography maps, Global was never given a quarter, triplicity or ruling sign. 1
Identity
Element
None assigned, for the same reason: Global names material whose reach crosses every quarter rather than a region within one of them. 1
Origins
Region
Worldwide by transmission rather than by origin 2Tradition: Traditional Western astrology
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A Marker, Not a Tradition's Category

Global is the atlas's own designation and not a category any tradition uses, which is worth saying at the top of its own entry.

Every other continent row here corresponds to something a source recognises: a quarter of the inhabited world, a triplicity, a region with sign assignments attached to it. Global corresponds to nothing of the kind. It exists because the atlas has to file material that is not tied to one landmass, and because leaving such material under a continent it merely passed through would put a false claim into the record.

Three kinds of thing end up here. The first is material whose spread is the point, a practice or a body of technique that moved across several continents and belongs to the transmission rather than to any one stop on it. The second is material that arose in several places without a demonstrated line between them, where asserting an origin would be asserting more than the evidence carries. The third is modern and contemporary material that was worldwide from the start.

Naming the marker as a marker is a small piece of honesty with a practical effect. A reader who sees Global on an entry should understand it as the atlas declining to make a geographic claim, rather than as the atlas making a very large one.

Why Some Material Has No Continent

The case for a continent free designation is easiest to see in astrology itself, which is the subject this entry was created alongside.

The technique in this vocabulary has Mesopotamian foundations, an Egyptian layer, a Greek synthesis, an Indian line of development, a Persian and Arabic systematisation, a Latin European consolidation, and a modern revival drawing on all of them. Filing it under a continent means choosing one of those and demoting the rest. Filing it as global states the actual situation, which is that the thing is the transmission.

The same reasoning applies well beyond astrology. Alchemical practice, divinatory geomancy, the great scriptural religions, calendar systems, and a large part of the herbal and mineral correspondence material this atlas records all have histories that cross continents, often repeatedly and in both directions.

There is a discipline that comes with using the marker. Global must not become the place where an unresearched origin goes to hide. A tradition with a known homeland gets that homeland, and a claim about origin that the sources do not support is recorded as an open question rather than dissolved into a category that makes it disappear. Used carefully, the row records a real property of the material. Used carelessly it would be a way of not knowing something quietly, which is why this entry is written as an instruction to the atlas as much as a description for a reader.

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Associated With

This source names Global directly: "from the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Monitor, a US government publication tracking legal developments worldwide, covering the Danish Parliament's repeal of the country's blasphemy..."

Source Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor: Denmark, Blasphemy Law Repealed

This source names Global directly: "from the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Monitor, a US government publication tracking legal developments worldwide, covering the Icelandic parliament's repeal of the country's blasphemy..."

Source Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor: Iceland, Blasphemy Law Repealed

This source names Global directly: "from the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Monitor, a US government publication that tracks legal developments worldwide, covering Kuwait's Penal Code Article 111 blasphemy provision and the..."

Source Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor: Kuwait, Blasphemy Against Islam

This source names Global directly: "from the Law Library of Congress's Global Legal Monitor, a US government publication tracking legal developments worldwide, covering the Norwegian Parliament's removal of the blasphemy provision..."

Source Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor: Norway, Blasphemy Provision to Be Removed from Penal Code

This source names Global directly: "article analyzing Falun Gong's global outreach, including Shen Yun Performing Arts, read directly for this entry."

Source Lin, "A China without the Chinese Communist Party: The Geopolitics of the Falun Gong," Geopolitics, 2020Weihsuan Lin

This source names Global directly: "treated with nutrition therapies, with global project spending of approximately 74.5 million euros and 1,202 employees worldwide across five project regions."

Source Malteser International 2024 Activity ReportMalteser International

This source names Global directly: "A combined citation covering the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online's entry on the Martyrs' Mirror and the Anabaptist Historians blog's published essay on Jan Luyken's engravings for..."

Source Martyrs Mirror and Jan Luyken (GAMEO and Anabaptist Historians)Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) contributors; Anabaptist Historians contributors

This source names Global directly: "and translators as part of Moody Global Media."

Source 100 Years of Moody Radio Proclaiming the Unstoppable Gospel (Moody Radio)

This source names Global directly: "and its more recent digital and global expansion of music resources, so a claim about current LDS musical practice needs a more recent source alongside this history."

Source Mormonism and Music: A HistoryMichael Hicks

This source names Global directly: "to about 450 radio stations, and the global distribution of the booklet The Kingdom, the Hope of the World that carried the new name."

Source Ninety Years Embracing the Name Jehovah's Witnesses (jw.org)

This source names Global directly: "Global Times' contemporary report, published 27 September 2023, on the opening of the ninth Nishan Forum on World Civilizations in Qufu, Shandong province, Confucius's traditional hometown, naming..."

Source Ninth Nishan Forum on World Civilizations Opens in Qufu (Global Times)

This source names Global directly: "Separate After 500 Years, a 2017 Global Legal Monitor note by Law Library of Congress staff, confirms the 2012 constitutional amendments and the 1 January 2017 legal separation, including the shift..."

Source Norway: State and Church Separate After 500 Years (Global Legal Monitor)Law Library of Congress staff

This source names Global directly: "Center's November 8, 2017 study of global Orthodox Christianity, finding the worldwide Orthodox population had roughly doubled over the preceding century, from an estimated 124 million in 1910 (7..."

Source Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century

This source names Global directly: "the organization's survey work on global Pentecostalism."

Source Pentecostal Resource Page (Pew Research Center, 2006)Pew Research Center

This source names Global directly: "history or its contemporary global presence needs a source addressing that separate, more recent material."

Source Prophecy Continuous: Aspects of Ahmadi Religious Thought and Its Medieval BackgroundYohanan Friedmann

This source names Global directly: "Selassie, and its development into a global movement."

Source Rastafari: A Very Short IntroductionEnnis B. Edmonds

This source names Global directly: "cultural history rather than a global comparative study, so a claim about red's meaning in a tradition well outside that frame, an East Asian or Indigenous American context for instance, needs a..."

Source Red: The History of a ColorMichel Pastoureau

This source names Global directly: "to Pew Research Center's 2010 Global Religious Landscape estimate."

Source Religion in Bhutan

This source names Global directly: "It is a strong source for global demographic trend figures, stated with whatever caveats Pew itself attaches, such as its own noted uncertainty around figures for China."

Source Religious Composition of the World, 2010-2020Pew Research Center

This source names Global directly: "feeling shape material outcomes, to a global mass audience and made Byrne one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in 2007."

Source Rhonda Byrne (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Global directly: "the National Religion, a 2017 Global Legal Monitor note by Law Library of Congress staff, is an official United States government legal research note explaining the amendment's text, its move from..."

Source Samoa: Constitutional Amendment Makes Christianity the National Religion (Global Legal Monitor)Law Library of Congress staff

This source names Global directly: "Wolfgang Schwentker and published by Global Oriental in 2008, examines the political use of national memory in the campaign to restore 11 February as National Day, tracing Prime Minister Eisaku..."

Source Sato Eisaku, Yasuoka Masahiro and the Re-Establishment of 11 February as National Day (The Power of Memory in Modern Japan)Eddy Dufourmont

This source names Global directly: "had outlined, and organized the global teaching plans that carried the Faith from a community centered on Persia and the Ottoman Levant into a religion established on every continent."

Source The Life and Work of Shoghi Effendi (Baha'i Reference Library)

This source names Global directly: "read 2026-08-16, the first dedicated global estimate of Haredi population size, putting the worldwide total at about 2.1 million, roughly fourteen percent of the global Jewish population, with..."

Source Staetsky, Haredi Jews around the world: Population Trends and Estimates (JPR, 2022)L. Daniel Staetsky

This source names Global directly: "from its early formation through its global transformations into the modern period, tracing documented lines of transmission between specific regions rather than describing Sufism as one uniform..."

Source Sufism: A Global HistoryNile Green

This source names Global directly: "the figure is likely impacted by the global COVID-19 pandemic."

Source Summary Statistics 1955-2020

This source names Global directly: "shaped how yoga was transmitted to a global audience in the second half of the twentieth century."

Source Yoga NidraSwami Satyananda Saraswati

This source names Global directly: "it predates Tenrikyo's more recent global expansion."

Source Tenrikyo: A Pilgrimage Faith: The Structure and Meanings of a Modern Japanese ReligionRobert S. Ellwood

This source names Global directly: "Oxford University Press, Religion and Global Politics series, is the first full academic examination of the religious dimensions of Guatemala's violencia under the Pentecostal general Efrain Rios..."

Source Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efrain Rios Montt, 1982-1983Virginia Garrard-Burnett

This source names Global directly: "missionary societies to coordinate the global spread of Christian mission and to reduce competition and duplication between denominations working in the same regions."

Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

This source names Global directly: "and spiritual leaders, of "Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration," a statement drafted principally by the Catholic theologian Hans Kung setting out ethical commitments its signers held to..."

Source Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial DeclarationDrafted principally by Hans Kung, endorsed by the Parliament of the World's Religions Assembly of religious and spiritual leaders

This source names Global directly: "It was the first global confessional federation any Reformed tradition had formed, holding regular councils with moral rather than legislative authority, and it grew to represent roughly ninety..."

Source WCRC History and Timeline (World Communion of Reformed Churches)

This source names Global directly: "the event from which the modern global Pentecostal movement traces its origin."

Source The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal MovementCecil M. Robeck Jr.

This source names Global directly: "not in North America but across the Global South: by the year 2000, Pentecostal and charismatic Christians numbered over five hundred million worldwide, growing at roughly four times the rate of..."

Source The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal MovementCecil M. Robeck Jr.

This source names Global directly: "across Canada, Europe and the global South."

Source Cardston Alberta Temple (Church News Almanac)

This source names Global directly: "treatment across a genuinely global movement is the volume's real evidentiary basis."

Source The Century of the Holy Spirit: 100 Years of Pentecostal and Charismatic Renewal, 1901-2001Vinson Synan (ed.)

This source names Global directly: "The plan built on the association's 1995 Declaration on Global Ecology, its 2003 Daoist Faith Statement and the 2006 Qinling Declaration produced at the association's first ecology conference at the..."

Source Global Capital, Local Conservation, and Ecological Civilization (Lemche and Miller, Religions, 2019)Jennifer Lemche and James Miller

This source names Global directly: "at roughly ten year intervals, of a global gathering of Anglican bishops that debates and issues resolutions but holds no legislative or canonical power to bind any member church."

Source The Lambeth Conference: A Global Gathering of Bishops (Anglican Communion Office)

This source names Global directly: "report projecting the growth of the global Muslim population, stating that Muslims numbered about 1.6 billion worldwide as of 2010, 23.4 percent of the estimated 6.9 billion global population, and..."

Source The Future of the Global Muslim Population

This source names Global directly: "Pew Research Center's report on the global Sunni-Shia Muslim split, read 2026-08-22, estimating that 87 to 90 percent of the world's Muslims are Sunni and 10 to 13 percent are Shia."

Source The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Sunni and Shia (Pew Research Center, 2011)Pew Research Center

This source names Global directly: "Nelson's own account, hosted by Princeton University, of the Global Consciousness Project, a network of random-number generators he directs that is claimed to show statistically anomalous deviation..."

Source The Global Consciousness ProjectRoger D. Nelson (Global Consciousness Project)

This source names Global directly: "organized a new denomination, the Global Methodist Church, which launched on 1 May 2022."

Source Global Methodist Church (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors

This source names Global directly: "Published on the Global Methodist Church's own site 29 June 2022, bylined to Walter B."

Source The Global Methodist Church in the Public Square: Restraint and Modesty (globalmethodist.org)the holders' own account

This source names Global directly: "A century later the balance had reversed entirely: by 2010 the Global South, Africa, Latin America and Asia together, held a clear majority of the world's Christian population, roughly sixty-one..."

Source Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian PopulationPew Research Center

This source names Global directly: "Jerusalem Declaration, issued at the Global Anglican Future Conference held in Jerusalem from 22 to 29 June 2008."

Source The Jerusalem Statement (GAFCON)

This source names Global directly: "issued in 2023 by the fourth Global Anglican Future Conference, is that conference's own communique calling for a reset of authority within the Anglican Communion."

Source The Kigali CommitmentGlobal Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON IV)the holders' own account

This source names Global directly: "lines, well before the movement's global growth was recorded again in 2006, already recorded here."

Source The Memphis Miracle (International Pentecostal Holiness Church)

This source names Global directly: "Common Values of All Humanity and a Global Community of Shared Future."

Source Ninth Nishan Forum on World Civilizations Opens in Qufu (Global Times)

This source names Global directly: "of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement's global outreach network, based on Fishkoff's own reporting and interviews with Chabad emissaries across many countries rather than on archival research."

Source The Rebbe's Army: Inside the World of Chabad-LubavitchSue Fishkoff

This source names Global directly: "Covers the USA territory only, not The Salvation Army's global operation, which the fact this backs states explicitly."

Source The Salvation Army 2024 Annual Report (USA National)The Salvation Army USA

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Contrasts With

Africa, Continents

Global is not a landmass. It marks material whose spread crosses the continents rather than belonging to one of them.

Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Americas, Continents

Global is not a landmass. It marks material whose spread crosses the continents rather than belonging to one of them.

Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Asia, Continents

Global is not a landmass. It marks material whose spread crosses the continents rather than belonging to one of them.

Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Europe, Continents

Global is not a landmass. It marks material whose spread crosses the continents rather than belonging to one of them.

Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion

Spread Events Here

Anchored to the same Global continent entity the Latter-day Saints' own global-south growth event already uses, since this fact is genuinely worldwide rather than tied to one country or region.

Source Pentecostal Resource Page (Pew Research Center, 2006)Pew Research Center

This shift spans Latin America, Africa and Asia at once, unlike this movement's earlier, place-specific events, so it is not pinned to any one continent on the map; the specific regions and the 1996 milestone are named in the description above.

Source Over Half LDS Now Outside U.S. (Church News)John L. Hart
Sources
1. A History of Horoscopic Astrology
James Herschel Holden, American Federation of Astrologers, 2006View the Source
2. A History of Western Astrology
Nicholas Campion, Continuum, 2009Publisher's book description, on the volume's scope
Quote, Publisher's book description, on the volume's scope
This is the first comprehensive examination of the origins of western astrology from ancient times to the end of the classical world, around 500 BCE.
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