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Pantheon Correspondence Grid

Which of these gods are actually related — and how would we know? Select a role row to draw the connections the vault can defend, colored by verdict: descent (sound-law name cognacy) · contact (documented borrowing) · convergence (same idea, no shared word). Unconnected tiles are unconnected on purpose. Every tile links to its vault note; dashed cells are honest gaps.

Mesopotamianreligious texts from c. 2600–2500 BCE
EgyptianPyramid Texts c. 2375–2345 BCE
Ugaritic / Canaanitetablets c. 1400–1200 BCE
Levantine / IsraeliteSoleb “Shasu of Yhw” c. 1390–1352 BCE
VedicRigveda composed c. 1500–1200 BCE (oral)
GreekLinear B c. 1400–1375 BCE
Italic / Romanarchaic Latin, c. 6th c. BCE
Norse / GermanicKylver stone c. 400 CE
Chineseoracle bones c. 1250 BCE · non-IE control
An / Anu
god-lists c. 2600–2500 BCE (ED III, Nippur/Fara)
2-text
convergence
no vault note yet
El is “father of gods” but not the sky — see el-yahweh-identification-canaanite
El/Yahweh are high-god “father” figures, not the sky itself
Dyáuṣ pitṛ́
composed c. 1500–1200 BCE (oral; oldest mss c. 1040 CE)
2-text · oral gap
Zeus (di-we)
c. 1400–1375 BCE, Knossos tablet KN Fp 1
2-text
Iūpiter / Diēspiter
archaic Latin prayers & inscriptions, c. 6th–3rd c. BCE
2-text
Týr (*Tīwaz)
t-rune, Kylver stone c. 400 CE; Eddas 13th c. CE
2-text
Tiān 天
Western Zhou bronzes, c. 1046–771 BCE
2-text
convergence
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
Baʿal-Hadad
tablets c. 1400–1200 BCE (KTU 1.1–1.6, Ugarit)
2-text
Yahweh's storm-theophany profile is documented but contested — Q18
Indra
Mitanni treaty c. 1380 BCE (external anchor); Rigveda c. 1500–1200 BCE
2-text
Zeus wields the storm, but his vault dossier is the sky-father row
no vault note yet
Þórr (Thor)
Eddic literature, 13th c. CE
2-text
storm god — NOT a *Dyḗus cognate. Þórr continues *þun(a)raz “thunder”; by sound law (*dy- → Gmc t-) Zeus's true Germanic relative is Týr, one cell over.
no vault note yet
Inanna / Ištar
Enheduanna's Exaltation, fl. c. 2300 BCE (OB copies c. 1800–1600 BCE)
2-text
no vault note yet
ʿAnat
tablets c. 1400–1200 BCE (KTU 1.5–1.6: mourns Baal, destroys Mot)
2-text
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
Aphrodite enters the vault only via the Adonis dossier so far
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
Inanna's Descent attests the netherworld; its queen has no vault note yet
Osiris
Pyramid Texts, c. 2375–2345 BCE — revived INTO the netherworld, as its king
2-text
Môt (Death)
tablets c. 1400–1200 BCE (KTU 1.5–1.6: swallows Baal)
2-text
no vault note yet
Yama has no vault note yet
Hades has no vault note yet
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
Dumuzi
ED god-lists, mid-3rd mill. BCE; OB tablets c. 1900–1600 BCE
2-text
Osiris
Pyramid Texts c. 2375–2345 BCE (allusive; first narrative Plutarch, 2nd c. CE)
2-text
unconnected — earliest attestation of all, yet no documented Mesopotamia link; he rises into the netherworld, not back to the living. Unresolved — Q7.
Baʿal
KTU 1.5–1.6, c. 1400–1200 BCE — “mightiest Baal lives”
2-text
the one securely dated pre-Christian die-and-return text. Mettinger's NW-Semitic regional cluster is plausible but rests on thinner evidence — Q6.
Tammuz (mourning rites)
Ezekiel 8:14, early 6th c. BCE — “women weeping for Tammuz” in Jerusalem
2-text
no vault note yet
Adonis (*adōn “lord”)
Sappho fr. 140, c. 600 BCE (mourning only; return claims 2nd–3rd c. CE)
2-text
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
no vault note yet
Hover or click a connection line to see the evidence behind it.

Curated from vault notes only — no edge without a tier-1/2 note behind it. The sky-father row is the benchmark: Dyaus–Zeus–Jupiter–Týr share one inherited word (*dyḗus) transformed by each branch's own sound laws, while Thor — the storm-wielder in Zeus's role — shares none of it: names are inherited; jobs are reassigned (Q10). Data: sky-father · dying-rising-god · proposal: pantheon-correspondence-grid.