HUMAN TIMELINE OF MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGION

EUROPE AFRICA MIDDLE EAST INDIA EAST ASIA ARCTIC N. AMERICA CENTRAL/MESOAMERICA S. AMERICA NEW GUINEAN/AUSTRALIA TERRITORIES OCEANA

100,000 BC Animism
100,000 BC
90,000 BC
80,000 BC
70,000 BC
60,000 BC
50,000 BC
Europe Aboriginal New-Guinea
40,000 BC Polytheism San Middle East Central Asian East / South Asian Fosna Paleo-Indian Dreamtime Animism
40,000 BC Animism Shamanism Shamanism Shamanism Shamanism Shamanism 40,000 BC 40,000 BC
30,000 BC 40,000 BC 12,500 BC 12,500 BC 10,000 BC 8000 BC 12,000 BC
Proto-Nostratic
20,000 BC 15,000 BC

10,000 BC
Berber Yoruba
Wuism
Animism Animism
(Chinese
5000 BC 9,000 BC 9,000 BC
Shamanism) Seidis Archaic India
5000 BC Shamanism Shamanism
4500 BC Mesopotamian
Muism
(Korean 6000 BC 4500 BC
Polytheism
4000 BC Shamanism)
Proto-Indo 4000 BC Indus
Bantu Nilotic 4500 BC
Europe Valley
3500 BC Polytheism
Animism Animism Egyptian Shamanism
3000 BC 3000 BC Indo-Iranian Canaanite
3500 BC Polytheism 3300 BC Finnish Sami
Polytheism Polytheism Melanesian
3000 BC 3000 BC
3000 BC Vedic Shamanism Shamanism Animism
2500 BC
(Early Hindu) 2000 BC 2000 BC 1650 BC
2500 BC Polytheism
Greek Phoenician 1700 BC
2000 BC Polytheism Ethiopian Polytheism
2000 BC Zoroastrianism 2000 BC Shenism: Chinese
Polytheism Atenism Hinduism folk religions
1500 BC Baltic 900 BC 1100 BC Anasazi
Polytheism 1348 BC 1000 BC Shamanism Polynesian
Germanic Greco-Roman Buddhism Olmec
2000 BC 1200 BC Animism
1000 BC Polytheism Mystery Cults Judaism 520 BC Shamanism
1700 BC 750 BC 950 BC Jainism 1500 BC 1650 BC
Micronesian
500 BC 1000 BC Animism
Slavic Theravada Hopewell 1200 BC
0 AD Polytheism Celtic Buddhism Taoism Shinto Confucianism Tengrism Shamanism
600 BC Polytheism 250 BC 500 BC 500 BC 500 BC 300 BC 200 BC
Mayan
500 BC Hellenism Gnosticism Hellenistic Islam
(Sunni) Polytheism
300 BC 940 AD Christianity Judaism
250 AD Mithraism 620 AD 250 BC
33 AD 300 BC
Hermeticism 70 BC Teotihuacan
Norse Neo-Platonism Mahayana
100 AD Polytheism
500 AD Polytheism 250 AD Bogomilism Manichaeism Buddhism
100 BC
200 AD 940 AD 270 AD 100 AD
750 AD Islam Vajrayana Bon
East Orthodox Catholicism (Shi’ite)
Theosophy 1054 AD 1054 AD Buddhism Buddhism Iroquois
1200 AD 858 AD 600 AD 600 AD
1000 AD Sufism
Mississippian Shamanism
Rosicrucian Sikhism Haitian Voodoo Shamanism 1000 AD
1407 AD 850 AD 1500 AD 1685
1250 AD Inuit 800 AD
Protestantism Incan
Shamanism
Catharism 1517 AD Pueblo Aztec Polytheism
1000 AD
1500 AD 1143 AD Kabbalah Shamanism Polytheism 1100 AD
1270 AD 1450 AD 1200 AD
1750 AD African Plateau Santo
Indians Candomblé Santeria Daime
Polytheism
2000 AD 1550 AD Shamanism Plains 1550 AD 1550 AD Spiritism
Neo The Reform 1500 AD Indians
Asatrú Rodnovery Romuva Druidism Wicca Thelema Bahai Faith Ayyavazhi Mormonism Scientology Hoodoo Shamanism Macumba Umbanda 1930 AD
1870 AD 1890 AD 1890 AD 1772 AD 1954 AD 1904 AD Golden Anthroposophy Judaism 1833 AD 1830 AD 1954 AD 1800 AD
1844 AD 1700 AD 1900 AD 1900 AD
Dawn 1912 AD 1809 AD
1887 AD