RESEARCH BASE

Search 3,721 documents across 34 fields — every claim tier-rated by evidence

3,721 Documents 34 Sections 43,625 Citations 34,852 Keywords Indexed 4 Evidence Tiers

3,633 are the core, quality-scored corpus (34 lettered sections — see How We Work); the remaining 88 are cross-corpus synthesis documents (68 InterDocs, 12 Connections, 8 Theories) also indexed here.

7 results for "marriage"

C_3_03 Verified Global Traditions

C_3_03 — Sacred Kingship and Divine Rulership

Almost every civilization in recorded history has believed that their rulers held power through a divine connection. This is not mere propaganda — it is one of the most universal patterns in human culture, emerging indep

sacred king divine king pharaoh mandate of heaven rex sacrorum divine right
C_3_11 Verified Global Traditions

C_3_11 — Sacred Sexuality, Hieros Gamos, and Fertility Cults

Sacred sexuality — the ritual enactment of sexual union as a cosmologically generative act — represents one of the most widespread and most misunderstood categories of ancient religious practice. The Sumerian hieros gamo

hieros gamos sacred marriage Inanna Dumuzi fertility cult tantric maithuna
C_2_13 Verified Global Traditions

C_2_13 — Fuxi and Nüwa — Chinese Serpent-Bodied Creator Deities

Fuxi (伏羲) and Nüwa (女媧) are the primordial creator deities of Chinese mythology — typically depicted with human upper bodies and intertwined serpent tails, representing the foundational pair from whom all humanity descen

Fuxi Nüwa Fu Xi Nu Wa 伏羲 女媧
ZC_4_02 Verified Social Science

ZC_4_02 — Kinship Systems and Social Organization Across Cultures

Kinship — the system of social relationships and categories through which human societies classify relatives, define obligations, regulate marriage, organize inheritance, and structure political authority — is the founda

kinship descent patrilineal matrilineal bilateral cognatic
ZC_2_14 Verified Social Science

ZC_2_14 — Sociology of the Family

Sociology of the family examines how families are structured, how they function as social institutions, and how they have transformed historically. Talcott Parsons (1955) theorized the mid-20th-century American nuclear f

family marriage kinship divorce nuclear family extended family
B_1_06 Verified Beings & Entities

B_1_06 — Inanna / Ishtar — Queen of Heaven and Earth

Inanna (Sumerian: 𒀭𒈹, d.INANNA) / Ishtar (Akkadian: 𒀭𒌋𒁯, d.IŠTAR) is the most important goddess of ancient Mesopotamia — the divine personification of love, sexuality, war, and political power, identified with the planet

Inanna Ishtar Sumerian Akkadian Babylonian Queen of Heaven
L_2_16 Verified Genetics & Origins

L_2_16 — Genetic Diversity and Inbreeding: Population Health Across History

Genetic diversity — the total amount of genetic variation within a population — is a fundamental determinant of population health, adaptive potential, and long-term survival. The loss of diversity through inbreeding (mat

genetic diversity inbreeding consanguinity runs of homozygosity ROH inbreeding depression