Divinity Atlas Launches: A Free Encyclopedia of World Religions That Puts Its Own Claims on Trial

16,156 entries across the world’s religions, mythologies and esoteric systems, carrying 159,467 recorded facts backed by 138,802 citations. Every established claim carries its source, every dispute is tried in public, and every page is built to be heard as well as read.

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Interactive Lion today announced the launch of Divinity Atlas, a free online encyclopedia of the world’s religions, mythologies and esoteric traditions, available now at divinityatlas.com . At launch the atlas holds 16,156 entries of 237 kinds, from deities, doctrines and denominations to tarot cards, runes, fixed stars and alchemical substances. Behind them stand 159,467 recorded facts, 138,802 citations to 6,860 graded sources, 69,965 documented relationships and 571 formally tracked open questions, with ancient traditions and modern movements covered on equal terms. And it offers readers something no major reference does: a formal, public process for putting its claims on trial.

Any reader can challenge a claim on the record. The bar is stated up front: point to a specific, checkable source a reviewer can go and read. A challenge that clears it becomes a public case, with a named…