Sacred Atlas
About

What this is, and is not.

Sacred Atlas is a comparative library of the world's sacred texts, built for serious readers — students, teachers, clergy, the curious, the skeptical — who want to be able to read Genesis, Surah Yusuf, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Tao Te Ching without juggling seven tabs. It is academic in tone, comparative in structure, and devotional in neither direction. The tradition colours in the interface mean nothing more than "this is where it comes from".

Sources & translations

All scripture on this site is in the public domain. We are not using paid or licensed translations at this stage, both to keep the project free forever and to keep it legally unencumbered. That means:

Over time, we hope to add side-by-side modern translations as licensing permits, and original-language word tools.

Our editorial stance

Comparative religion has been practised badly in the past — flattening differences, smuggling in assumptions of one tradition while claiming neutrality, or reducing living faiths to specimens. We take those risks seriously. Three commitments:

  1. We let each tradition speak for itself — the primary sources are the primary voices; editorial notes are labelled as such.
  2. We name divergences plainly — the parallels entries are explicit where traditions contradict, not just where they agree.
  3. We are open to correction — if a translation note, date, or comparative claim is wrong, we want to know. Contact us and we will fix it.

Sacred Atlas is built and run by one person, funded by modest advertising and reader donations. There is no venture capital behind it and no business model beyond "stay alive and useful." If it has helped you — in study, in teaching, in prayer, in argument — please consider giving what you can.

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What's next

This is v1. On the roadmap:

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