Every culture has imagined the end of the world.
The floods, fires, returns, and last battles that peoples across time believed would close out a world. Read the stories, the systems behind them, and the patterns that repeat from Mesopotamia to Mesoamerica.
Traditions
The religious and cultural systems that produced eschatologies, and how each imagined the end.
41 articlesMyths & Narratives
The named stories: floods, fires, returns, and the last battles that end a world.
57 articlesWorld-Age & Cosmos
How the universe is said to be built, age, and fall, across cyclical and linear models.
5 articlesProphecies & Predictions
Specific predictions and dated expectations of the end, from oracles to doomsdays that failed.
3 articlesFigures
The beings who bring, survive, or judge the end: saviors, destroyers, and tricksters.
9 articlesCross-Cultural Patterns
Recurring shapes that repeat across cultures: the remnant, the twin, the reset.
3 articlesScholarship
The historians, philologists, and thinkers who mapped how humans invented the last day.
2 articlesNew to the subject? Start with what eschatology is, then Ragnarök, the Mesopotamian flood, and the remnant motif.