The Universal Religious Colour Scheme (TURCS without Caicos)

List of Bugs
    • Maronite colour identical to Animist, to be changed fixed
    • Mithraic mysteries lack a colour. Will be fixed when Mithraism is added fixed
    • Fix islamic gnostic name
    • Wikipedia lists a separate Luwian religion. Should I add it to Anatolian?
    • Beta Israel denomination to be added
    • Add some NAmerican mythologies
    • Add Sufism
    • Add Mutazilism
    • Add Gnostic denominations: Bardasianites
    • Add more Jewish groups
    • Add Georgian and Vainakh mythology, add Kalash people
    • Add Georgian patriarchate colour, for Serbia and Bulgaria as well
    • Monithelits ar NOT Maronites. They deserve a separate colour.
    • Add following: Pneumatomachians, Origenism, Anomeanism.: Origenism not added, as there was no schismatic movement around him.
    • Add Military orders for non-Catholic religions
    • Add Edinovertsy
    • Knights Hospitaller
    • add Skoptsy
    • Add Johannites as Gnostic sect
     
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    The Dawn of Civilization
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    I decided NOT to add Islam into The Dawn of Civilization, due to Islam emerging at a much later date, but mostly because of me being tired :/ and thinking Islamis a way too diverse religious group to be dealt with at such time. As you may notice, some religions do appear more than once, with Mandeism appearing three times, mostly due to difficult classification.
     
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    The Dawn of Civilization, Description
  • Kemetic
    Key deities: Amon, Ra, Isis
    Key locations: Siwa, Giza, Karnak, Thebes
    Liturgical language: Egyptian
    Atenism
    Key deities:Aton
    Key locations: Amarna
    Liturgical language: Egyptian
    Elamite:
    Key deities: Kiririsha, In-shushinak, Jabru
    Key locations: Susa, Awan, Anshan
    Liturgical language: Elamite
    Sumerian
    Key deities: Enlil, Enki, Inanna
    Key locations: Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Nippur
    Liturgical language: Sumerian
    Babylonian
    Key deities: Anu, Enki, Enlil, Ishtar, Marduk
    Key locations: Babylon, Ur, Akkad
    Liturgical language: Sumerian, Akkadian
    Ashurism
    Key deities:Ashur
    Key locations: Ashur, Niniweh, Dur Sharukkin
    Liturgical language: Akkadian, Aramaic
    Canaanite
    Key deities: Baal, Melqart, El
    Key locations: Tyre, Ugarit, Carthage
    Liturgical language: Canaanite
    Nabatean
    Key deities: Dusharra, al-Uzza, Manat
    Key locations: Petra, Sobata, Bostra, Hegra
    Liturgical language: Nabatean
    Arabic
    Key deities: Hubal, al-Uzza, Manat
    Key locations: Mecca, other locations
    Liturgical language: Arabic
    Hittite
    Key deities: Tarhunt, Telipinu, Inara
    Key locations: Arinna, Ain Dara, Nerik
    Liturgical language: Hattian, Hittitte
    Hurrian
    Key deities: Šauška, Teššub, Kumarbi, Nergal
    Key locations: Yazilikaya, Kahat, Urkesh
    Liturgical language:Hurrian

    TBC

    Also, the next upcoming expansion will cover the lands from Gibraltar to Ordos, from Ural to Madagascar, so awiat the Crescent of the Saracens

     
    Crescent of the Saracens
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    This involved a huge amount of branches, especially amongst the Shias . I have covered almost all Kharjite brnaches, dunno if I should add the Sufi orders as well.
     
    Crescent of the Saracens, Descripition
  • will arrive in due time.
    For now, The Pagans of the World, Divide work in progress.
    Dunno if I should give each of the North American mythologies a colour though. Haven´t touched Africa yet
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mytho...cas#Algonquian_(northeastern_US,_Great_Lakes)

    My Excel table showing colours, so that I dont duplicate them
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    Showing the HLS: Hue being the horizontal axis, Saturation the vertical, and lightness being written behind the colour.
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    So at least some Europe, Northern Asia and the New world
     
    Pagans of the World Divide, Description
  • DRUIDRY
    Key deities: Teuthates, Cernunnos, Lugus
    Key locations: Stonehenge, Anglesey,Lyon
    Liturgical language:Gaulish, Brythonic, Gaelic
    ZAMOLXIAN
    Key deities: Zamolxis
    Key locations: Sarmizegethusa
    Liturgical language:Dacian
    RODNOVERY
    Key deities: Perun
    Key locations: Arkona,Novgorod, Kiev
    Liturgical language:Old Slavic
     
    And Yet Another Schism, Description
  • Gentile Christianity
    Separated from: main branch of Christianity, founded by Paul
    Key locations: Antioch, Ephesus, Jerusalem, Rome, Damascus
    Liturgical language: Koiné Greek, Aramaic
    Authority: Apostles, Patriarch of Antioch, Patriarch of Rome
    Jewish Christianity
    Separated from: Judaism
    Key locations: Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth
    Liturgical language: Palestinian Aramaic
    Authority: Patriarch of Jerusalem
    Samaritan Christianity
    Separated from: Samaritanism
    Key locations: Gerizim, Capernaum, Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Samaritan Aramaic
    Authority:
    Valentinian
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity, Gnosticism
    Key locations: Alexandria, Rome, Cyprus
    Liturgical language:
    Authority: Church of Aeons
    Appollinarian
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity
    Key locations: Antioch, Laodicea (Lattakia), Jerusalem, Rome
    Liturgical language: Koiné Greek
    Authority: Appollinarian Congregation
    Patripassian
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity
    Key locations:
    Liturgical language:
    Authority: Patripassian Patriarchy
    Donatism
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity
    Key locations: Carthage, Rome, Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Latin, African, Punic, Berber
    Authority: Patriarch of Carthage
    Priscillianist
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity
    Key locations: Ávila, Toledo, Rome, Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Latin, Early Spanish
    Authority:Bishop of Ávila
    Arianism
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity at Council of Niceae
    Key locations: Alexandria,Sirmium, Milan, Ceasarea, Durosotrum
    Liturgical language: Coptic, Gothic, Koiné Greek
    Authority: Arian Papacy
    Ebionites
    Separated from: Jewish Christianity
    Key locations:Jerusalem, Damascus, Sinai, Dhofar, Antioch
    Liturgical language: Palestinian Aramaic, Hejazi Arabic
    Authority: Ebionite Church (Patriarchate of Jerusalem)
    Pelagian
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity
    Key locations: Iona, Landisfarne, Dyfed, Inse Gall, Ormond, Canterbury
    Liturgical language: Brythonic, Gaelic, Britannian
    Authority: Pelagian Bishop, Bishop of Iona
    Nicene
    Separated from: Gentile Christianity at Council of Niceae
    Key locations: Rome, Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Seleucia-Ctesiphon
    Liturgical language: Koiné Greek, Aramaic, Coptic, Latin
    Authority: The Patriarchates of Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Seleucia-Ctesiphon
    Nestorian
    Separated from: Nicene at Ephesus and Chalcedon
    Key locations: Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Assur, Edessa, Jerusalem, Antioch, Rayy,Merv, Mahoyadapuram
    Liturgical language: Syriac, (Sogdian)
    Authority: Patriarch of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon)
    Chalcedonian
    Separated from: Nicene at Chalcedon
    Key locations: Roma, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Latin, Koiné Greek,
    Authority: The Pentarchy
    Myaphisite
    Separated from:Nicene
    Key locations: Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Axum, Ghazali (Echmidzin)
    Liturgical language: Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Ge´ez
    Authority: Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Antioch
    Monotheletism
    Separated from: Chalcedonian, 3rd Constantinople council
    Key locations: Antioch, Jerusalem, Bkerke
    Liturgical language: Western Aramaic
    Authority: Maronite Patriarch
    Catholicism
    Separated from: Chalcedonian, by the Great Schism
    Key locations: Rome, Santiago, Avignon, Hippo, Jerusalem, Cologne
    Liturgical language: Latin
    Authority: Pope in Rome
    Fraticelli
    Separated from: Catholicism
    Key locations: Rome, Assissi, ...
    Liturgical language: Latin
    Authority: Fraticelli Pope
    Cathars
    Separated from: Catholicism, under influence of Bogomilism
    Key locations: Albi, Montségur, Carcassonne, Béziers
    Liturgical language: Occita
    Authority: Cathar papa(s)
    Waldensians
    Separated from: Catholicism, by Peter Waldo
    Key locations: Lyons, Susa
    Liturgical language: Franco-Provencal
    Authority: Majoralis omnium
    Lollardy
    Separated from: Catholicism, by John Wycliffe
    Key locations: Oxford, Canterbury, York, Lincoln
    Liturgical language: English
    Authority: ?
    Orthodoxy
    Separated from: Chalcedonian, by the Great Schism
    Key locations: Constantinople, Mt. Athos, Ephesus, Antioch ,Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Greek, later Georgian and Old Church Slavonic as well
    Authority: Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, patriarchs in Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, later Kiev, Mtsketa and Ohrid
    Paulician
    Separated from: Orthodox
    Key locations: Samosata, Kibossa, Amamalis, Tephrike
    Liturgical language: Greek, late Anatolian
    Authority: Paulician Patriarchate
    Bogomilism
    Separated from: Paulician
    Key locations: Ohrid, Pliska, Visoko,Vidin
    Liturgical language: Old Church Slavonic
    Authority: ?
    Iconoclast
    Separated from: Orthodox
    Key locations:Constantinople, Ephesus, Mt. Athos,Antioch ,Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Greek
    Authority: (iconoclast) Ecumenical Patriarch
    Maronites
    Separated from: possibly successor to Monothelites
    Key locations: Bkerke, Antioch, Tripoli, Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Syriac
    Authority: Maronite Patriarch (claimant to Antioch)
    Coptic Orthodox Church
    Separated from: part of Myaphyiste communion
    Key locations: Alexandria, Cairo, Minya, Qasr Ibrim, Ghazali, Axum
    Liturgical language: Coptic
    Authority: Coptic Pope of Alexandria
    Syriac Jacobite Church
    Separated from: part of Myaphysite communion
    Key locations: Antioch, Mor Hananoyo Monastery, Edessa, Jerusalem, Tagrit (Tikrit) , Nisibis
    Liturgical language: Syriac
    Authority: Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, maphrian of Tagrit
    Armenian Apostolic Church
    Separated from: part of Mayphysite communion, previously subject to Antioch
    Key locations: Dwin, Echmiadzin, Sis, Jerusalem
    Liturgical language: Armenian
    Authority: Catholicos of Armenia, Catholicos of Cilicia, (Armenian)Patriarch of Jerusalem, (Armenian ) Patriarch of Cosntantinople
    Church of the East
    Separated from: Nicene at Ephesus and Chalcedon
    Key locations: Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Assur, Edessa, Jerusalem, Antioch, Rayy,Merv, Mahoyadapuram
    Liturgical language: Syriac, (Sogdian)
    Authority: Patriarch of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon)
     
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    A Myriad of Denominations, description
  • Hussite
    Separated from: Catholic
    Key locations:prague, Constance,Tábor,
    Liturgical language: Czech, German
    Authority:
    Lutheran
    Separated from: Catholic
    Key locations:Wittenberg, Wartburg, Augsburg
    Liturgical language: German
    Authority:
    Calvinist
    Separated from: Catholic
    Key locations:Geneva, Zurich
    Liturgical language:
    Authority:
    TBC
     
    In Search for Nirwana
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    I could not orientate myself in the Japanese sects, so I have only listed Shinto, Ryukyan and Tenrikyo. I am open to suggestions, and will include all relevant groups upon demand.
     
    The Universal Religious Colour Scheme
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    Note: Alternative coordinates of "Anglican" are 175,240,155 (because of new paradox EU4 DLC)
    Note 2: Millerite colour includes 7th Day Adventists
     
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    Update: added Diasporic African religions.
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    For some reason the whole file could not be uploaded with the African Diasporic religions, as it would be too big :(
     
    Major Overhaul
  • Greetings all, just letting you know that this colour scheme is going over a major overhaul.
    Many of the religion colours were redone, while the Americans and the Far East are still to be completed (please would you folks be willing to provide me a list of all entries needed to cover those areas?

    Without further ado, here we go:

    African Religions:
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    Near Eastern
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    Christianity:
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    Judaism and Rahmanism:
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    Iranian Religion:
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    Islam:
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    Indian
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    Update
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    I believe this is it, complete. Should you find something important missing, please let me know.
    Note: Philosophical religions or political ideologies have their own colours and are not to be regarded as religions for all practical purposes.
    Note as well: Should there be genuine need to differentiate between sects of some major religion, the said colour may be used with lighter or darker shades accordingly
     
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