Descent Tree Explorer
Three lineage trees grown from vault data — roots in the deep past at the bottom, the present at the top. Hover a deity to ignite its cognate set across branches · click any node to open its vault note. Dashed, translucent wood is reconstruction or inference — honestly marked, never solid.
Proto-Indo-European — the *Dyḗus cognate set
The benchmark descent case: one sky-father formula surfacing across six branches by regular sound law. Hover any fruit — its cognates ignite across the whole tree. Dashed wood is reconstruction (class 3): no PIE text exists.
Canaanite → Israelite → the Abrahamic line
Two streams — the Ugaritic El-pantheon substrate and a southern Yahweh cult — converge into Israelite religion. The merge itself is a scholarly inference (dashed). Judaism → Christianity → Islam is drawn as a context line: those traditions have no vault notes yet.
Vedic → the Dharmic traditions
Vedic religion, externally anchored by the Hittite–Mitanni treaty, continues into Hinduism; the śramaṇa milieu forks toward Buddhism and Jainism. The fork's direction of influence is contested (Greater Magadha hypothesis) — drawn dashed.