In timelines, supreme god timeline refers to the shift of supreme god, typically a form of the sun god, as religious power centers shifted, over time, as dynasties rose and fell, from ancient Egypt to modern America; generally showing how the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead, various stele, e.g. Metternich Stela (Ѻ), morphed into the various modern religious books, the Vedas, Torah, Bible, and Quran in particular, the dominate books of the modern world religions.
Timeline | Supreme god
The following is the work in progress supreme god timeline: [1]
Dynasty | Supreme God | Capital | Person | Publication | Notes |
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Archaic | 5000-3500BC | |||||
Libyan | Savage times | |||||
Pre-Dynastic | 3500-3150 BC / 6750-4900 BG → Heliopolis recension | Heliopolis | ||||
Early | |||||
1st Dynasty | 3150-2890 BC / 4900-4640 BG | Heliopolis | ||||
2nd Dynasty | 2890-2686 BC / 4640-4436 BG→ Memphis recension | Ptah | Memphis | |||
Old Kingdom | |||||
3rd Dynasty | 2686-2613 BC / 4436-4663 BG | Ra | Memphis | Imhotep | Step Pyramid Sahal Island rock inscription [7] | |
4th Dynasty | 2613-2498 BC / 4663-4248 BG | Ra (Ѻ)(Ѻ) / Horus & Ra [?] (Ѻ) | Heliopolis | [200+ gods] | ||
5th Dynasty | 2498-2345 BC / 4248-4095 BG | Heliopolis | Unas | Palermo Stone [8] Pyramid Texts | [200+ gods] | |
6th Dynasty | 2345-2181 BC / 4095-3931 BG | Ra-Atum (Atum-Ra) [4] / Ptah | Heliopolis | [200+ gods] | ||
First Intermediate | |||||
7th-8th Dynasty | 2181-2160 BC / 3931-3910 BG→ Hermopolis recension | Hermopolis | Coffin Texts | |||
9th Dynasty | 2160-2130 BC / 3910-3880 BG | Ogdoad | Hermopolis | |||
10th Dynasty | 2130-2040 BC / 3880-3790 BG | Ogdoad | Hermopolis | |||
Early 11th Dynasty | 2134-2061 BC | Hermopolis | ||||
Middle Kingdom | |||||
Late 11th Dynasty | 2061-1991 BC / 3811-3741 BG→ Theban recension | Ra [4] | Thebes | Book of the Dead | ||
12th Dynasty | 1991-1803 BC / 3741-3553 BG | Thebes | ||||
13th Dynasty | 1803-1649 BC / 3553-3399 BG | Amen | Thebes | |||
14th Dynasty | 1705-1650 BC / 3455-3400 BG | Amen | Thebes | |||
Second Intermediate | |||||
15th / Hyksos Dynasty | 1650-1550 BC | Baal-Set (Ѻ) [transition state] [5] | Thebes | |||
16th Dynasty | 1660-1600 BC | [transition state] [5] | Thebes | |||
17th Dynasty | 1580-1549 BC | Amen [5] | Thebes | [god fusion] | ||
New Kingdom | |||||
18th Dynasty | 1549-1292 BC | Thebes | Theban recension | |||
→ Atenism | 1352-1336 BC / 3102-3086 BG | Amarna | Akhenaten | |||
→ Post-Atenism | 1237-1293 BC | [add] | ||||
19th Dynasty | 1292-1189 BC | Thebes | Seti I | Papyrus of Ani | [1,200+ gods] | |
Seti II | |||||
20th Dynasty | 1189-1077 BC | Thebes | [Osiris sculptures] | |||
→ Reformulation | 1100 BC | [A source] | Amarna recension roots (Ѻ) | |||
Third Intermediate | |||||
21st Dynasty / Priest-King Dynasty | 1069-945 BC [5] | Osiris-Ra | ||||
→ Judaic recension | 1050-1000BC | S. Canaan | [J source] | Genesis A | Heliopolis recension roots [4] | |
22nd Dynasty | 945-720 BC | Osiris-Ra | ||||
→ Judaism | 922 BC | [Ptah = “the Lord” = El] (Ѻ) | N. Canaan | [E source] | Genesis B | |
23rd Dynasty | 837-728 BC | Osiris-Ra | ||||
24th Dynasty | 732-720 BC | Osiris-Ra | ||||
→ Piye invasion | 732 BC [4] | Ra | ||||
25th Dynasty | 760-656 BC | Osiris-Ra | ||||
720 BC (or 1500BC ?) | Ptah-Atum | Shabaka Stone (Ѻ) [12] | |||
Late Period | |||||
26th Dynasty | 672-525 BC→ Saite recension | Zeus = Ra [?] | Book of the Dead (Standard Edition) | |||
670 BC | Priestly Blessing [6] | ||||
650 BC | [D source] | Deuteronomy | |||
→ Babylonian exile | 587-397 BC | |||||
586 BC | [P source] | Priestly matters | Theban recension roots [4] | ||
Persian period | |||||
First Persian Dynasty | 550-330 BC (Ѻ) → Cyrus recension | Theban recension roots | ||||
27th Dynasty | 525-404 BC | El-Yahweh | ||||
→ Jerusalem return | 400 BC | Torah | ||||
28th Dynasty | 404-398 BC / 2154-2148 BG | |||||
29th Dynasty | 398-380 BC / 2148-2130 BG | |||||
30th Dynasty | 380-343 BC / 2130-2093 BG | Horus | Alexandria | Nectanebus I | Metternich Stela (Ѻ) | |
31st Dynasty | 343-332 BC / 2093-2082 BG | Jupiter/Zeus = Ra [?] | ||||
Ptolemaic Period | |||||
Macedonian Dynasty | 332-305 BC / 2082-2055 BG→ Greek recension | Amen-Zeus; Horus | Alexandria | Alexander | Library of Alexandria | |
Ptolemaic Dynasty | 305-30 BC / 2055-1780 BG | Alexandria | Ptolemy I | |||
250 BC | Serapis (Osiris-Apis) [7] | ||||
Ptolemy II | |||||
Ptolemy III | |||||
221-204 BC | Dionysus [10] | Egypt | Ptolemy IV | ||
100BC-37AD | Dendera | Tiberius | Dendera Temple | ||
Roman Period | |||||
Caesar Dynasty | 30 BC-306 AD / 1780-1444 BG→ Roman recension | Rome | ||||
→ Julio-Claudian dynasty | 54-68 AD | Osiris | Dendera | Nero | Dendera Temple | |
69 AD | Serapis and Isis [7] | Rome | Vespasian | ||
100-250AD | |||||
306-337 AD | Constantine | Nicaean Creed (325) | |||
337-641 AD | Lord-God Almighty | ||||
379-395 AD | Theodosius I | ||||
529 AD | Justinian I | Outlawed: paganism; closed: Epicurean garden, Skeptic Academy, Lyceum, Stoic Porch, and Neoplatonic Academy (Athens); abolished the worship of Amun (at Augila) and Isis (at Philae). [11] | |||
396-641 AD | |||||
Arab Period | |||||
Arab Egypt | 641-969 AD / 1109-781 BG | Allah = El | ||||
Fatimid Egypt | 969-1171 AD / 781-579 BG | Allah = El | ||||
Ayyubid Egypt | 1171-1250 AD / 579-500 BG | |||||
Mamiuk Egypt | 1250-1517 AD / 500-233 BG | |||||
English Period | |||||
1st Monarch | 871-1700 AD | |||||
1516 | Netherlands | Erasmus | Erasmus NT | ||
→ James recension | 1611 | England | James | King James Bible |
Period | Supreme God | Capital | Person | Publication | Notes |
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Renaissance Period | |||||
Atomic theory revival | 1417-1600 / 333-150 BG | God or Atoms/Voids? | Germany | Bracciolini | ||
Heliocentrism | 1543-1623 / 207-127 BG | God? | Italy | Copernicus | ||
Dualism | 1620 | Soul in pineal gland | France | Descartes | ||
Atheism Revival | |||||
Spinozism | 1677-1809 | God = Nature | Netherlands | Spinoza | ||
Extreme Atheism | 1729-1855 / 21 BG-105 AG | God does not exist | Meslier | |||
Apologetics | 1736 / 14 BG | God = Designer | England | Paley | ||
Goethe period (Ѻ) | |||||
Human chemical theory | 1770-1832 / 20-82 AG | Chemical Spinozism | Germany | Goethe | Elective Affinities | |
1818-1844 / 64-94 AG | Will = Chemical Will | Germany | Schopenhauer | ||
1877-1888 | Will to power | Germany | Nietzsche | [God is dead] | |
Ontic Opening Era (Ѻ) | |||||
Creative evolution | 1907 | God = Creative force | France | Bergson | ||
1936 | Spirit-Matter | Teilhard | |||
Real world thermodynamics | 1971 / 221 AG | God = Gibbs energy | America | Rossini | ||
Physicochemical sociology | 1987-2014 / 237-264 AG | Allah's will = Gibbs energy | Pakistan | Beg | New Dimensions | |
Sudden emergence | 2008 / 258 AG | Rothschild | ||||
New Atheism | |||||
Implicit atheism | 1900-2001 | |||||
New atheism | 2004 | Harris | ||||
Explicit atheism | 2014 | |||||
Zerotheism | 2015 / 265 AG | Thims | ||||
Smart atheism | 2016 | Thims | Smart Atheism |
“It is interesting to note the existence of the monks of the Serapeum, because they form a connecting link between the Egyptian priests and the Christian ascetics and monks who filled Egypt in the early centuries of our era. The worship of Apis continued in Egypt until the downfall of paganism, which resulted from the adoption of Christianity by Constantine the Great [reign: 306-337AD] and from the edicts of the Emperor Theodosius [reign: 379-395AD] .”— Wallis Budge (1904), The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume Two (pg. 349)