Coverage

Counted,
not scored.

What each collection holds, and what it is missing: counts of records, citations, places and undated entries — and the gaps an editor wrote down.

What is held,
and what is missing.

Counted, not scored

All 18 collections

What is held, in counts.

Added up across the collections. Nothing here is a percentage or a grade.

Records: 21,160
Statements: 96,773
Cite outside Wikimedia: 23,868
Places: 8,525
Known gaps, written down: 54
Reviewed here: 0

The 728 records filed under more than one collection count once in each, and the 6,188 records filed under none are in no collection’s count.

Coverage is not a confidence score. The numbers are not comparable between collections: a collection with ten times the records has ten times the editors upstream, which is a fact about Wikidata rather than about any tradition. Nothing here measures how good the material is.

Collection by collection

In the collections’ own order, never by size. Open a row for its known gaps and how it was gathered.

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Greek and Roman

Aegean, Italy and the Roman provinces, roughly 1600 BCE to 400 CE. 3 known gaps, written down Records 2,123 Statements 12,969 Cite outside Wikimedia 2,858 Places 322 Undated 2,000

Known gaps

Local cults are thin: Wikidata records the Panhellenic gods far better than the deity of a single Arcadian valley.
Roman equivalence is recorded as identification, and the identification is usually Roman rather than Greek — asserted by the borrowing side.
Almost no narrative variant is attributed to a specific line of a specific work yet; the ones that are, are marked.

The Olympians and their Roman equivalents, the mystery cults, and the poets whose accounts disagree.

Stories: 81
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

How it was gathered. Discovered from Wikidata by class and by religion, ranked by incoming links, then filtered against each item’s own claims. Relationships are imported statements unless a row says otherwise; none of them has been read here. Published 2026-09-25.

Cover · Parthenon · Steve Swayne · CC BY 2.0

Open Greek and Roman

Ancient Egypt

Nile valley and Nubia, roughly 3100 BCE to 400 CE. 3 known gaps, written down Records 377 Statements 915 Cite outside Wikimedia 62 Places 145 Undated 315

Known gaps

Egyptian theology is local and periodised, and a single 'parent of' row flattens a god who was a different god at Memphis and at Thebes.
Transliterated names vary by school; the label shown is Wikidata's, not a normalised one.
Temple activity is recorded as a building date far more often than as documented worship.

Three thousand years of gods whose names, forms and relationships changed with the dynasty and the city.

Stories: 4
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Karnak Temple Complex · Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0

Open Ancient Egypt

Mesopotamia and the Levant

Tigris–Euphrates, Anatolia and the eastern Mediterranean coast, roughly 3500 BCE to 200 CE. 3 known gaps, written down Records 247 Statements 910 Cite outside Wikimedia 108 Places 49 Undated 203

Known gaps

Sumerian and Akkadian names for one god are often two records upstream, and merging them would be an editorial claim this collection has not made.
Coverage follows excavation and publication, not antiquity: Ugarit is well recorded and its neighbours are not.
Dates are composition dates of tablets far more often than dates of practice.

Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hittite-adjacent and Canaanite gods, and the texts that carry them.

Stories: 2
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Inanna · Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open Mesopotamia and the Levant

Iranian traditions

Iranian plateau, Mesopotamia and the Roman frontier, roughly 1500 BCE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 94 Statements 384 Cite outside Wikimedia 57 Places 24 Undated 58

Known gaps

The Mithraic mysteries left almost no text and a great deal of iconography; the relationships here lean on the second.
Living traditions in this group are small and under-recorded on Wikidata relative to their age.
Avestan chronology is disputed by centuries, and this site keeps the dispute rather than choosing.

Zoroastrianism, the Mithraic mysteries, Manichaeism, Yazidism and the Mandaeans.

Stories: 2
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Parsi Fire Temple, Secunderabad · PersianDutchNetwork · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open Iranian traditions

South Asian traditions

Indian subcontinent and its diaspora, roughly 1500 BCE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 1,718 Statements 3,193 Cite outside Wikimedia 378 Places 986 Undated 1,505

Known gaps

Hinduism is not one tradition, and a single 'Hinduism' affiliation row on a deity says much less than it appears to.
Regional and household deities vastly outnumber the recorded ones.
Puranic genealogies differ between Puranas; where a relationship is drawn without an account, that is what the label says.

Hinduism and its schools, Jainism, Sikhism, and the Vedic material behind them.

Stories: 1
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Trimurti · Saileshpat · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open South Asian traditions

Buddhist traditions

India, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Korea and Japan, roughly 500 BCE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 1,943 Statements 7,684 Cite outside Wikimedia 2,099 Places 1,180 Undated 1,022

Known gaps

Teacher transmission is the backbone of these traditions and the thinnest thing in the structured data: most lineages here are incomplete.
One figure has different names in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese, and upstream sometimes has several records.
Recognition of a lineage is contested in living cases, and only some contests are represented.

Theravāda, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna, their figures, sutras, lineages and monasteries.

Stories: 2
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Borobudur Temple · Gunawan Kartapranata · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open Buddhist traditions

East Asian traditions

China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and the diaspora, roughly 1200 BCE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 1,007 Statements 3,597 Cite outside Wikimedia 384 Places 441 Undated 690

Known gaps

Whether a given practice is 'a religion' is a live argument in this group, and this site does not settle it.
Local shrine deities in Japan and China number in the tens of thousands; a few hundred are recorded.
Daoist canon dating is compiled and re-compiled, so a text's date is the edition's more often than the composition's.

Daoism, Confucian practice, Chinese folk religion, Shinto and Korean tradition.

Stories: 8
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Amaterasu · Utagawa Kunisada (歌川国貞; b. 1786, d. 1865) · Public domain

Open East Asian traditions

Judaism

Levant, Mesopotamia, Europe, North Africa and the diaspora, roughly 1000 BCE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 1,562 Statements 6,759 Cite outside Wikimedia 1,357 Places 772 Undated 550

Known gaps

Rabbinic transmission is long and well documented in the sources and poorly recorded in structured data.
Biblical figures carry narrative time and no historical date; where a date appears it is a source's.
Movement affiliation after 1800 is recorded unevenly.

Texts, sages, institutions and places, and the schools that read them differently.

Stories: 3
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Book of Genesis · User:KetefHinnomFan · CC0

Open Judaism

Christianity

Worldwide, 1st century CE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 8,680 Statements 47,069 Cite outside Wikimedia 14,428 Places 3,051 Undated 1,757

Known gaps

Wikidata's coverage of Christianity is far denser than of any other tradition here, which distorts every count that compares them.
Saints are recorded in bulk and read in detail almost nowhere.
Parish churches dominate the place data by volume; the atlas ranks by how widely a site is linked to keep that from swamping it.

Its branches, councils, saints, offices and buildings — and where they stopped recognising each other.

Stories: 7
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Hagia Sophia · Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open Christianity

Islam

Arabia, North Africa, the Near East, South and Southeast Asia and beyond, 7th century CE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 2,177 Statements 9,841 Cite outside Wikimedia 1,341 Places 1,326 Undated 573

Known gaps

Isnād — chains of transmission — is the tradition's own model of a lineage and is barely present in structured data.
Sufi orders are recorded as organisations more often than as transmissions.
Figurative representation is an editorial decision per subject here, never a rule applied to the tradition.

Schools of law and theology, the scholars who transmitted them, and the places they taught.

Stories: 2
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Sultan Ahmed Mosque · Moonik · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open Islam

Norse and Germanic

Scandinavia, the North Sea and the Germanic-speaking world, roughly 500 BCE to 1200 CE. 3 known gaps, written down Records 212 Statements 1,124 Cite outside Wikimedia 547 Places 0 Undated 192

Known gaps

Almost everything written down is 13th-century Icelandic, which is five hundred years after the practice it describes; the source clock says so.
Continental Germanic religion is recorded through Roman and Christian observers, and both had an argument to make.
Sacred sites are largely reconstructed from place names, which is a different kind of evidence from a standing building.

The Æsir and Vanir as the Eddas tell them, and what the archaeology says instead.

Stories: 6
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Freyja · John Bauer · Public domain

Open Norse and Germanic

Celtic, Slavic and Baltic

Western, central and eastern Europe, roughly 500 BCE to 1500 CE. 3 known gaps, written down Records 321 Statements 795 Cite outside Wikimedia 95 Places 4 Undated 310

Known gaps

The written sources are Greek, Roman, Christian or nineteenth-century folklorists, and the last of those often reconstructed what they went looking for.
Several well-known figures rest on a single line in a single chronicle, and the page says which line.
Interpolations by Romantic-era scholars are a known hazard here and are not all identified.

Traditions recorded mostly by outsiders, or after conversion, or from folklore.

Stories: 3
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Cernunnos · Nationalmuseet, Roberto Fortuna og Kira Ursem · Public domain

Open Celtic, Slavic and Baltic

Anatolia and the ancient Balkans

Anatolia, the Aegean and the Balkans, roughly 1700 BCE to 300 CE. 3 known gaps, written down Records 156 Statements 480 Cite outside Wikimedia 16 Places 63 Undated 145

Known gaps

Etruscan and Illyrian religion are known mainly through material culture and Roman description.
Hittite archives are rich and localised; what survives is what Hattusa kept.
Names are transliterated from several scripts with no agreed convention.

Hittite, Phrygian, Etruscan, Thracian and Illyrian religion.

Stories: 1
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Sun goddess of Arinna · PHGCOM · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open Anatolia and the ancient Balkans

Steppe, Siberia and the Arctic

Eurasian steppe, Siberia and northern Scandinavia, roughly 800 BCE to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 45 Statements 157 Cite outside Wikimedia 21 Places 0 Undated 39

Known gaps

Much of this is recorded through Chinese, Persian, Russian and missionary observers.
'Shamanism' is a category imposed from outside and is used here only where a source uses it.
Living practice is under-recorded relative to the historical material.

Tengrism, Scythian religion, Siberian and Sámi tradition.

Stories: 3
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Decorative mark · not a source image

Open Steppe, Siberia and the Arctic

African traditions

Sub-Saharan Africa and the Atlantic diaspora, antiquity to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 96 Statements 152 Cite outside Wikimedia 32 Places 2 Undated 93

Known gaps

Oral traditions are systematically under-recorded in structured data, and this collection is the clearest case of it on the site.
Diaspora traditions — Vodou, Candomblé, Lucumí — are recorded through their Atlantic forms more than their West African ones.
Colonial-era ethnography is the source for much of this and its categories are not neutral.

Yorùbá, Akan, Igbo, Dogon, Zulu and diaspora traditions, and the Ethiopian and Coptic churches.

Stories: 0
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Yemaja · Samuel Tobbytex007 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Open African traditions

Mesoamerica and the Andes

Mexico, Central America and the Andes, roughly 1500 BCE to 1600 CE and after. 3 known gaps, written down Records 287 Statements 561 Cite outside Wikimedia 59 Places 143 Undated 270

Known gaps

Most surviving accounts were written after the conquest, by or for the people who ended the practice.
Four Maya books survive out of an unknown number; the glyphic record is otherwise monumental.
Andean religion had no script of its own, and the khipu record is not read.

Aztec, Maya, Zapotec and Inca religion, and what the conquest left of them.

Stories: 1
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Tezcatlipoca · Unknown author · Public domain

Open Mesoamerica and the Andes

Oceania and Australia

The Pacific and Australia, antiquity to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 68 Statements 116 Cite outside Wikimedia 18 Places 5 Undated 67

Known gaps

Aboriginal Australian traditions are held by their communities, and much is not public and should not be.
Coverage here is the thinnest on the site relative to the traditions' depth.
Recorded sacred places are those already publicly designated; absence on the atlas means nothing about significance.

Polynesian, Melanesian, Māori, Hawaiian and Aboriginal Australian traditions.

Stories: 3
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Makemake · Rivi · CC BY-SA 3.0

Open Oceania and Australia

Native North America

North America, antiquity to the present. 3 known gaps, written down Records 47 Statements 67 Cite outside Wikimedia 8 Places 12 Undated 44

Known gaps

A great deal is deliberately not public, and this site does not attempt to reconstruct it.
Nineteenth-century ethnography dominates the sources and was often collected without consent.
Nation-level distinctions are frequently collapsed upstream; where the record says only 'Native American religion', the page says that.

Traditions of the peoples of North America, as publicly recorded.

Stories: 1
Accounts: 0
Reviewed here: 0

Cover · Hé-no · Jesse Cornplanter (Hayonhwonhish) (Life time: 1889–1957) · Public domain

Open Native North America

Two zeros, explained

Why “accounts” and “reviewed here” are zero

An account is one named source’s version of a story, with its own cast and its own relationships. The structured data this site imports has no equivalent, so there are none yet — a zero, which means none, rather than a missing row, which would mean nobody measured.

Reviewed here counts claims a person at HistorIQly has read and signed with a date. Nothing has been, and until something is, every relationship on this site is labelled as an import. That label is the honest one and it is not going to be quietly upgraded.

Where the counts come from

How this site reads its sources.

Three licences, three clocks, and a word for how far each claim has been checked — the mechanism behind every number above.

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