Hitchhiker's Guide to Religion
The Universal Moves

Concepts

The patterns religion keeps returning to — creation, flood, sacrifice, return — collected and compared across every tradition.

6 concepts
Cosmogony

Creation

How the world was made — God shaping clay, the cosmic egg, Ymir's body, the Rainbow Serpent.

Hindu Norse Egyptian Abrahamic +1
Catastrophe

Flood

The waters came everywhere — Noah, Utnapishtim, Manu, Tata and Nena. Same scene across continents.

Christian Mesopotamian Hindu Aztec +1
Ritual

Sacrifice

The dying-rising god — Christ on the cross, Mithras over the bull, Inanna on the hook, Odin on the tree.

Christian Norse Persian Sumerian +1
Transformation

Resurrection

Christ rising, Osiris reassembled, Persephone returning, Quetzalcoatl as morning star.

Christian Egyptian Greek Aztec
Eschatology

Afterlife

Anubis weighing the heart, the Styx, Valhalla, the bardo states, heaven and hell mapped.

Egyptian Norse Christian Buddhist +1
Departure

Last Words

Buddha's parinirvana, Christ's cry, Socrates and the cup, Krishna pierced.

Christian Buddhist Hindu Norse