At a glance
Category breakdown
Top 10 traditions (by entry-tag count)
Entries can carry multiple tradition tags; 4172 total tags across 1711 entries. Bars measure cataloguing progress, not importance — a shorter bar means fewer entries written so far, never a lesser tradition. Browse every faith on equal footing in the Sacred Census.
Source tier coverage
Each entry ranked by its best-cited source tier (T1 = author + year + pages; T2 = named work; T3 = generic reference).
Geographic coverage (top 10 states / countries)
1027 entries have structured geo data; 1305 more have prose geographic description.
Historical period (deities)
Recently updated entries
Media coverage
Trilingual coverage (Hindi + Tamil)
Human-reviewed overlays only — machine drafts of sacred text are never auto-published. Snapshot of 2026-09-23: 181 entries with Hindi, 68 with Tamil, out of 1671 published. Stories lead (178 Hindi tellings); deities, festivals, and temples are the review queue below.
Human-review queue (top 12 flagship candidates)
REVIEWED entries with zero overlays — translators start here. Full 200-item queue lives in the report.
- Śākyamuni Buddha — the site of enlightenment, supreme tīrtha of world Buddhism · deities
- The Carpenter Slave Who Built a Palace in Heaven — Thomas and King Gondophares · stories
- Parassinikkadavu Muthappan — the non-Brahminical forest-god of North Malabar · deities
- Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Pundarika): The Jewel of the Buddha's Teachings · sacred-texts
- Mañjuśrī — the Bodhisattva of wisdom, at the great Nalanda university · deities
- The Heart Sutra (Prajnaparamita): The Essence of Perfection of Wisdom · sacred-texts
- The Charioteer's Village — Aranmula and the Boats That Race for a God · stories
- The Copper Plates of Joseph Rabban — A Kingdom's Promise to Its Jews · stories
- The Reclining Vishnu of Srirangam — Foremost of the 108 Divya Desams · temples
- Langar Service: The Sacred Practice of Community Kitchen in Sikhism · practices
- Sthalapurana of Tirumala — The Hill Where Lord Venkateswara Resides · stories
- Tārā — the swift-liberating female bodhisattva of Tibetan Buddhism · deities