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One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

This page groups pantheons by how one generation of gods gave way to the next. Wikipedia notes that "conquests could lead to the subordination of the elder culture's pantheon to a newer one, as in the Greek Titanomachy, and possibly also the case of the Æsir and Vanir in the Norse mythos." Browsing by divine succession lets a visitor trace how a pantheon's ruling generation changed over time.

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Fifty Nine Pantheons That Do Not Fit a Named Category

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

Other Pantheons gathers fifty nine deity type entries that do not belong under one of the atlas's other named pantheon classifications, the largest and most heterogeneous grouping under deity type.

Most of the fifty nine are indigenous and folk traditions of specific peoples, filed here because each is its own tradition rather than a variant of a larger one already catalogued. Sub-Saharan Africa contributes the largest cluster, twenty five entries including West African, Maasai, Bambara, Mossi, Senufo, Tallensi, Ewe, Edo, Amazigh, Zande, Mbuti, Kikuyu, Luo, Ganda, Dinka, Nuer, Xhosa and Chewa, several, Senufo's Poro and Chewa's Nyau among them, built around initiation societies whose deeper knowledge stays closed and is recorded here only as far as each community has made public. South and Southeast Asia contribute twenty two entries, chiefly India's Adivasi and other indigenous communities, the Adivasi, Tani, Meitei, Kirat, Bodo, Garo, Khasi, Gond, Bhil and Santal among them, several campaigning for census recognition as faiths distinct from Hinduism, alongside the Sinhala and Tamil shared cult, the Vedda, Kalash, Dayak, Javanese, Toraja, Balinese, Igorot, Hmong, Burmese, Thai and Khmer traditions further east. East Asia's Yi, Naxi and Ryukyuan traditions form a third cluster. The diaspora in the Americas contributes Mexican Folk, Kumina and Winti, and antiquity contributes Phrygian.

A final cluster of five entries, Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Baha'i and Latter Day Saint, exists so each Abrahamic tradition's own conception of the one God of Abraham stands on its own terms rather than sharing one comparative page.

What unifies the fifty nine is only that none fit elsewhere, not a shared pantheon, cosmology or region.

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded
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Adivasi

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Amazigh

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Baha'i

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Balinese

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Bambara

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Bhil

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Bodo

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Burmese

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Chewa

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Christian

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Dayak

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Dinka

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Edo

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Ewe

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Fang

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Ganda

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Garo

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Gond

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Hmong

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Igorot

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Islamic

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Javanese

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Jewish

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Kalash

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Khasi

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Khmer

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Khoikhoi

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Kikuyu

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Kirat

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Kumina

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Latter Day Saint

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Luba

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Lugbara

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Luo

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Maasai

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Mbuti

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Meitei

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Mexican Folk

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Mossi

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Naxi

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Ndembu

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Nuer

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Phrygian

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Ryukyuan

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Santal

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Senufo

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Shilluk

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Sinhala and Tamil

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Sotho-Tswana

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Tallensi

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Tani

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Thai

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Toraja

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Vedda

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Winti

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Xhosa

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Yi

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded

Zande

One divine generation; no succession between generations is recorded
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, Second Edition Category Descriptions
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