{
  "status": "Editorial translation; specialist review pending",
  "clusters": [
    [
      "Mesopotamia",
      "Waters / undifferentiated state → generation, conflict and order",
      "Scribal texts and ritual",
      "Cosmic and political order; limited retrodiction"
    ],
    [
      "Plural Egypt",
      "Nun / potentiality → emergence, word or genealogy",
      "Texts, ritual, landscape",
      "Plurality need not be mutually exclusive; Nile-based analogy"
    ],
    [
      "Greece: Hesiod / Presocratics",
      "Divine genealogy → principles inherent in nature",
      "Poetry, argument, observation",
      "The kind of admissible cause changes"
    ],
    [
      "Plato / Aristotle / Epicurus",
      "Plausible order / eternal cosmos / atoms and void",
      "Philosophy and inference",
      "Three incompatible accounts in the same setting"
    ],
    [
      "Genesis and monotheisms",
      "Word, separation, creation and order",
      "Revelation, text, philosophy",
      "FQM: theology and morality are not astrophysics"
    ],
    [
      "Zoroastrianism",
      "Creation, mixture, conflict, final separation",
      "Religious texts",
      "Cosmogony, morality and eschatology are connected"
    ],
    [
      "Nāsadīya",
      "Origin questioned; being / non-being left unsettled",
      "Śruti and poetic speculation",
      "Explicit uncertainty about who could know"
    ],
    [
      "Sāṃkhya / Jainism / Buddhist traditions",
      "Manifestation; eternity; cycles and dependence",
      "Doctrine and argument",
      "No necessary creator or first instant"
    ],
    [
      "Plural China",
      "Dao / qi and differentiation; Pangu and body-cosmos",
      "Text, practice, analogy",
      "Geographical proximity without cosmogonic unity"
    ],
    [
      "Māori / Hawaiʻi",
      "Te Kore–Te Pō–Te Ao; cosmic genealogies",
      "Orality, whakapapa, chant",
      "Relation, land and legitimacy; translations need checking"
    ],
    [
      "Yorùbá",
      "Watery world → land, humanity and kingship",
      "Orality, worship, art",
      "Internal variants; cosmogony and power"
    ],
    [
      "K’iche’ Maya",
      "Creation attempts, failure and correction",
      "Popol Wuj",
      "Narrated iteration without algorithmic anachronism"
    ],
    [
      "Aboriginal Australian traditions",
      "Families of accounts by Nation; Country and ancestral beings",
      "Custodianship, place, ritual",
      "Environmental and normative knowledge, sometimes restricted"
    ],
    [
      "Sámi / Arctic",
      "Fragmentary and regional corpora",
      "Often external sources",
      "A documentary gap does not imply an original absence"
    ],
    [
      "Contemporary science",
      "Traces → models → consequences → tests",
      "Measurement and mathematics",
      "Constrained retrodiction; remaining unknowns declared"
    ]
  ],
  "patterns": [
    [
      "First cause",
      "Organising causality",
      "Inventing an initiator",
      "First-Cause Presupposition Check"
    ],
    [
      "Beginninglessness",
      "Recognising recursive processes",
      "Dissolving responsibility",
      "Local Responsibility Independence"
    ],
    [
      "Genealogy",
      "Exposing derivation and relation",
      "Origin turned into destiny",
      "Origin–Authority Firewall"
    ],
    [
      "Retrodiction",
      "Reconstructing the past",
      "A plausible history treated as the only one",
      "Alternative Histories Test"
    ],
    [
      "Analogy",
      "Making the inaccessible thinkable",
      "A model mistaken for reality",
      "Analogy Boundary Test"
    ],
    [
      "Named unknown",
      "Stabilising a gap",
      "A label mistaken for an explanation",
      "Named Unknown Check"
    ],
    [
      "Ignorance",
      "Preserving honesty",
      "Paralysis",
      "Unknown Vector + Action Threshold"
    ],
    [
      "Prediction",
      "Anticipating possibilities",
      "Determinism and self-fulfilment",
      "Prospection Boundary + Reflexivity"
    ],
    [
      "Cyclicity",
      "Recognising feedback",
      "Fatalism",
      "Cycle Breakability Test"
    ],
    [
      "Origin → authority",
      "Building continuity",
      "Naturalised domination",
      "Present Legitimacy Test"
    ],
    [
      "Transmitted memory",
      "Preserving experience",
      "Tradition made immune to criticism",
      "Transmission Genealogy Check"
    ],
    [
      "Separation",
      "Producing categories and order",
      "Essentialising distinctions",
      "Category Contingency Check"
    ]
  ]
}