| 9HE | 1 000 BCE–1 BCE | 9HE – Savior & Sage – (1,000–1 BCE) | Axial monotheisms (Israelite prophets, Christ’s precursors) and parallel “sage” traditions (Confucius, Laozi). Mimesis of scapegoat vs. savior. |
| 10HE | 1 CE–1 000 CE | 10HE – Church & Castle – (1–1,000 CE) | Christianity’s imperial fusion, fall of Rome, rise of feudal orders and Daoist statecraft in East Asia. |
| 11HE | 1 000 CE–2 000 CE | 11HE – Gun, Globe & Cross – (1,000–2,000 CE) | Printing press and Protestant/Counter-Reformation propaganda; colonial empires and global trade; scientific revolution “killing its father”; industrialization and world wars; emergence of planet-wide information networks. |
| 12HE | 2 000 CE–3 000 CE | 12HE - Mercury, Aristos & Hathaway - (2,000-3,000 CE) | Speculative. Machine cognition and the corporate successor-state; neo-aristocratic houses and demographic inversion; scapegoating post-revelation; the off-world exodus. Youth’s reach for the castle in the air. |