Ideas across traditions · ritual · Indian

sacrifice

A common word: it appears in 37% of all works on the maps, so its reach across traditions is a fact about English, not about the idea. The works are listed for completeness; the analogues below are the judged connections.

Also under: “homa” · “opfer” · “yajna” · “קרבן” · “korban” · “sacrificium” · “祭祀” · “θυσία” · “thysia” · “sbyin sreg”

126works in other traditions, with a cited page
35works in Indian, its home tradition on the maps
623further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
1judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

Analogues, judged

A different word, in another tradition, that a reviewer judged to name a neighbouring idea. These are not attestations of sacrifice; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.

  • puja Indian70%glossed 'ritual worship'/'worship' — offering-worship adjacent to but distinct from sacrifice

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

Zoroastrianfrom 1000 BCE · 9 works

and 4 more works in Zoroastrian; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Greekfrom 700 BCE · 2 works

Hebrew & Jewishfrom 550 BCE · 6 works

and 1 more works in Hebrew & Jewish; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Chinesefrom 238 BCE · 2 works

Hermetic & Gnosticfrom 100 BCE · 3 works

Early Christian & Monasticfrom 90 CE · 4 works

Hellenistic & Late Antiquefrom 100 CE · 20 works

and 15 more works in Hellenistic & Late Antique; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Buddhistfrom 800 CE · 4 works

Arabicfrom 1025 · 3 works

Tibetanfrom 1050 · 9 works

and 4 more works in Tibetan; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Byzantine & Orthodoxfrom 1070 · 2 works

Kabbalistic & Hasidicfrom 1180 · 17 works

and 12 more works in Kabbalistic & Hasidic; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Persianfrom 1200 · 7 works

and 2 more works in Persian; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Medieval Latinfrom 1250 · 16 works

and 11 more works in Medieval Latin; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Southeast Asianfrom 1365 · 1 work

Renaissance & Early Modern Europefrom 1482 · 12 works

and 7 more works in Renaissance & Early Modern Europe; a common word, so the full list is not shown.

Modern Europeanfrom 1660 · 5 works

Theosophical & Modern Esotericfrom 1877 · 4 works

At home in Indian

and 27 more.

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.