The chart below is intended to function vertically as a timeline
for the origination of major world religions while horizontally
depicting their relative geographic origins. Between these
two, both the chronological and the geographic, the chart
ultimately serves to illustrate the conceptual connection
and the flow of influence from one religion to another. By
understanding and displaying these historical origins and
connections, complexity and obscurity can be removed from
discussions concerning the competing views of the major world
religions.
