Name of Model	Formulation Date	Type or Epoch	Description	Special Remarks
Near Eastern succession myths — Enuma Elish, Kumarbi cycle	ca. 18th–12th c. BCE	Deep Antiquity & Mythic Patterns	Mother-goddess or earth-god rule → overthrow by sky-father → reconciliation or new cosmic order.	One of the deepest mythic templates for matriarchy → patriarchy → synthesis.
Platonic myths — Statesman, Critias	ca. 4th c. BCE	Antiquity & Late Antiquity	Alternation between the “Age of Cronos” (golden, maternal/nurturing) and the “Age of Zeus” (patriarchal, rule-bound), with possibility of restoration/synthesis.	Explicit gender coding in divine rulers; anticipates later matriarchal/patriarchal/synthesis models.
Stoic cosmological cycles	3rd–2nd c. BCE	Antiquity & Late Antiquity	Material conflagration (ekpyrosis) → spiritualized rational order → return to primal mixture.	Cosmological rather than social history; less gendered, but matches immanent → transcendent → synthesis rhythm.
Lucretius — De Rerum Natura	mid–1st c. BCE	Antiquity & Late Antiquity	Sketches a rough natural history of religion: animism/mother-earth worship → fear of gods → philosophical understanding of nature.	Proto-stadial model in classical Epicureanism; not overtly gendered, but fits immanent → transcendent → rational pattern.
Indo-European tripartition myths (Dumézil’s reconstruction)	Proto-Indo-European (ca. 2000–1000 BCE oral), scholarly framing 1940s CE	Deep Antiquity & Mythic Patterns	Though not identical, some cycles reframe the three functions (sovereign, warrior, productive) as historical epochs, with the first and second often gender-coded.	Functions often mapped onto gendered cosmic principles; adaptable to Marx/Crowley 3-stage schema.
Giambattista Vico — Scienza Nuova	1725	Early Modern & Enlightenment Precursors	a. Age of Gods (poetic, natural, mythic — often tied to nature/maternal authority) b. Age of Heroes (aristocratic, patriarchal) c. Age of Men (egalitarian, rational — sometimes envisioned as synthesis).	Gender polarity implicit; cyclical return possible; influential on Romantic historiography.
Hobbes / Pufendorf / early stadial theorists	1650s–1720s	Early Modern & Enlightenment Precursors	Varied three-stage “natural → political → civil” frameworks, later feeding into Scottish Enlightenment stadial theory.	Not gendered, but can be overlaid with materialist/antimaterialist coding.
Hegel — Phänomenologie des Geistes	1807	19th Century Philosophical–Positivist Models	While not overtly gendered, Hegel’s dialectical triads (immediacy → mediation → sublation) were a major template for later “three-stage history” schemes.	Underlies Marx’s version structurally; can be reinterpreted in gender/materiality coding.
Auguste Comte — Cours de philosophie positive	1830–1842	19th Century Philosophical–Positivist Models	a. Theological (often mapped onto primitive/maternal religiosity) b. Metaphysical (abstract, often patriarchal/transcendent in style) c. Positive (scientific synthesis — sometimes given a “humanist religion” form).	Gender mapping less explicit; strong influence on later stadial thinking; teleological.
Johann Jakob Bachofen — Das Mutterrecht	1861	19th–20th Century Occultist & Anthropological Sources	a. Hetaerism (promiscuous communality) — primal, material, associated with the earth and maternal authority. b. Matriarchy proper — goddess religion, agrarian, chthonic. c. Patriarchy — solar gods, transcendence, law.	Gender polarity explicit; proto-template for later occult and anthropological 3-stage models; lacks explicit “androgynous” synthesis, but implied in later adaptations.
James George Frazer — The Golden Bough	1890–1915	19th–20th Century Occultist & Anthropological Sources	While not as explicitly gendered, Frazer’s “magical → religious → scientific” sequence was recoded by Crowley into gendered and metaphysical terms (material → anti-material → monist).	Source for Crowley’s Aeonic theory; translatable into Marx-like materialism → antimaterialism → synthesis.
Aleister Crowley — Thelemic Aeons	1904–1940s	19th–20th Century Occultist & Anthropological Sources	Explicitly reads Frazer/Bachofen into Thelemic “Aeons”: a. Isis — matriarchal, immanentist. b. Osiris — patriarchal, transcendence-obsessed. c. Horus — child/androgynous synthesis, monist.	Most explicit occult mapping; directly gender-coded; metaphysics parallels Marxist 3-stage model in broad form.