Linguistic Gap Analysis — Revelation | English → Nepali

Purpose

This document executes PRD Phase 1 Step 8 for the Revelation curriculum. It analyzes the gap between English source vocabulary and available Nepali destination vocabulary across the nine assigned curriculum doctrines, with Revelation 21:1–8 as the theological anchor and full book-wide coverage (chapters 1–22) as the required scope. It does not re-derive terms already fixed in the baseline Romans translation_memory.json/bible_term_registry.json or in the Revelation 08_core_glossary.md extension; it builds on both, surfacing (a) the doctrine-by-doctrine vocabulary matrix, (b) genuinely missing vocabulary requiring coinage, (c) crowded semantic neighborhoods requiring deliberate fencing, (d) the transliteration-vs-paraphrase decision log, and (e) a ranked list of the letter’s highest-risk ambiguities for Phase 2 routing.

All Nepali renderings below either reuse the established baseline/glossary term exactly or are flagged as new proposals requiring theologian sign-off before being written into translation_memory.json.

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Section 1 — Doctrine Vocabulary Matrix

For each of the nine assigned curriculum doctrines: the available Nepali vocabulary, its structural weaknesses in the Nepali religious landscape, and the recommended fencing/rendering strategy.

#	Doctrine	Available Nepali Term(s)	Weaknesses in Nepali Context	Recommended Strategy
1	The Return and Reign of Christ	आउनुहोस्, प्रभु येशू (coming_soon); राजाहरूका राजा र प्रभुहरूका प्रभु (king_of_kings_lord_of_lords); तिनीहरूले सदासर्वदा राज्य गर्नेछन् (reign_forever); बिहानीको तारा (morning_star)	Nepal’s own recent history (Shah-dynasty monarchy, avatar-legitimated, abolished 2008) means “king/reign” vocabulary risks being heard as one more dynastic claim rather than a category-different, absolute, cosmic reign.	Anchor every reign/kingship term explicitly to Christ’s unique return and enthronement; never allow “राजा” alone (without the Lamb/Christ referent) to stand unqualified. Reuse existing Critical-risk baseline+glossary terms exactly; no new coinage needed.
2	The Sovereignty of God over History	सर्वसामर्थी (almighty); सिंहासन (throne); जो हुनुहुन्छ, जो हुनुहुन्थ्यो, र जो आउनुहुनेछ (who_is_was_and_is_to_come); अल्फा र ओमेगा (alpha_and_omega); परमेश्वरको व्यवस्थापन (baseline providence)	सिंहासन carries direct dynastic-royal memory; सर्वशक्तिमान् (the common Nepali word for Almighty) is doctrinally forbidden due to the शक्ति/Tantric-Kumari collision already flagged in the baseline power_of_god entry. Cyclical-time cosmology (kalpa) is the default Nepali Hindu frame for “eternity.”	Deliberate departure from common usage: सर्वसामर्थी, not सर्वशक्तिमान्. Alpha/Omega retained as transliteration + gloss (no live Nepali equivalent exists for a two-letter-alphabet merism). Every throne-vision passage (chs. 4–5, 20:11, 21:5) must textually anchor सिंहासन to God/the Lamb alone.
3	Perseverance and Faithful Witness under Persecution	क्लेश / महासङ्कष्ट (tribulation); गवाही / साक्षी (testimony); सहनशीलता / धैर्य (patient_endurance); विजयी हुनु / जय गर्नु (overcome)	Two live collision risks: (a) Buddhist दुःख (dukkha) reframes all suffering as inherent to existence rather than time-bound and purposive; (b) धैर्य/सहनशीलता alone can default to a fatalistic, karma-shaped “endurance of one’s lot” reading rather than active, hope-fueled endurance.	Always pair endurance vocabulary with an explicit hope/vindication clause in teaching material (not the base text itself, which must stay lexically stable) so learners hear guaranteed outcome, not open-ended karmic acceptance. गवाही/साक्षी should be taught with explicit acknowledgment of its lived, current-not-only-historical weight for a church under the 2017 Muluki Criminal Code’s conversion restrictions.
4	Judgment of the Wicked and Vindication of the Saints	इन्साफ / न्याय गर्नु (judgment); आफ्ना कामअनुसार इन्साफ गरिनु (judged_according_to_works); दोस्रो मृत्यु / आगोको कुण्ड (second_death_and_lake_of_fire); पवित्र जनका धर्मी कामहरू (righteous_acts_of_the_saints); जीवनको पुस्तक (book_of_life)	Nepali नरक (naraka) is a temporary punishment-way-station within an ongoing rebirth cycle in both Hindu and Buddhist frameworks; “works”-language collides with karma-merit accounting; “vindication” risks reading as a karmic settling-of-scores rather than covenantal justice.	Never नरक for the lake of fire — always the compound दोस्रो मृत्यु / आगोको कुण्ड, taught explicitly as final and irreversible. “Judged according to works” must be taught (mandatory theologian note) as evidentiary, not meritorious — distinct from जीवनको पुस्तक’s gracious record.
5	The New Heaven and New Earth	नयाँ आकाश, नयाँ पृथ्वी (new_heaven_and_new_earth); मन्दिर देखिनँ (no_temple); जीवनको पानी / जीवनको रूख (water_and_tree_of_life); वास गर्ने ठाउँ / बास बस्नुहुनेछ (tabernacle_dwell); श्राप (curse_removed)	Hindu kalpa cosmology (repeated sṛṣṭi-pralaya cycles under Brahmā) is the dominant Nepali frame for cosmic renewal; अमृत (Samudra Manthan nectar-myth) is the dominant frame for a “life-giving substance”; Nepal’s temple-saturated religious geography (Pashupatinath, Boudhanath, and thousands of local shrines) makes “no temple” counter-intuitive without explicit framing.	This is the single highest-density doctrinal-risk cluster in the whole book, and it is the core passage’s own subject (21:1–8). Every occurrence requires the explicit linear/one-time contrast note against kalpa cycles; जीवनको पानी must always appear paired with सित्तैमा/निःशुल्क and अनुग्रह to block the अमृत reading; मन्दिर देखिनँ must be framed as fulfillment (unmediated presence), never devaluation of मण्डली.
6	The Church as Bride of Christ	दुलही / थुमाको विवाह भोज (bride_and_marriage_of_the_lamb); मण्डली (church, baseline reused); पवित्र जन (saints, baseline reused)	Nepali दुलही carries strong live cultural freight: family-negotiated unions, dowry expectation, subordinate in-law status. A literal transfer of these social frames onto the Church risks a transactional or hierarchically subordinate reading rather than a covenantal, purchased, corporate union.	Teaching material (not the base translation) must explicitly state the corporate referent (the whole redeemed community, not an individual woman) and the initiative-and-purchase structure (Christ acts; the Church does not negotiate dowry). No lexical change recommended — दुलही remains the only viable Nepali term — but mandatory framing notes are required at every occurrence (19:7–9; 21:2,9; 22:17).
7	Worship of the Lamb	आराधना गर्नु (worship); थुमा (lamb); योग्य (worthy); प्राचीनहरू (elders); जीवित प्राणीहरू (living_creatures); उहाँलाई पूजा नगर, परमेश्वरको आराधना गर (worship_of_angel_forbidden)	पूजा (the ordinary Nepali word for ritual worship of murtis/images) is the single most tempting default rendering and is forbidden throughout. थुमा risks collision with पशु-बलि (Dakshinkali, Gadhimai animal sacrifice) if framed as worshipper-offered rather than self-offered. गुरु-veneration is a live devotional category that could bleed into प्राचीनहरू if mistranslated.	Zero tolerance for पूजा anywhere in προσκυνέω contexts, true or false — this preserves the text’s own worship-contest structure (ch. 13 vs. chs. 4–5). थुमा must always co-occur, in surrounding teaching text, with “once-for-all,” “self-offered,” “now reigning.” गुरु is categorically excluded from elders/priest renderings.
8	Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation	प्रकाश / प्रकटीकरण (apocalypse, genre-title only); numeric symbols (एक लाख चवालिस हजार; ६६६); पशु (beast); अजिङ्गर / प्राचीन सर्प (dragon)	Genuine vocabulary gap: Nepali has no single established adjective for “apocalyptic” as a literary-genre descriptor (as distinct from प्रकाश, which names this specific book). The curriculum doctrine name itself (“Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation”) needs a coined Nepali doctrine-label. नाग-veneration (largely benevolent guardian-serpent folk religion, Nāg Pañchamī) is a live collision risk for अजिङ्गर/सर्प; पशु shares a root with पशु-बलि.	Propose सांकेतिक र प्रकाशनात्मक व्याख्या as the Nepali doctrine-name (सांकेतिक = symbolic; प्रकाशनात्मक = of/pertaining to disclosure/apocalypse, derived adjective from प्रकाशन) — flagged new coinage, Medium risk, native speaker review required before entry into translation memory. Every dragon/serpent occurrence requires an explicit “this is evil, not a nāga guardian-spirit” clarifying note in teaching material, not the base text.
9	Assurance of God’s Final Victory over Evil	विजयी हुनु / जय गर्नु (overcome); शैतान / दियाबल (satan_and_devil); बदला लिनु / इन्साफ गर्नु (avenge); हजार वर्ष (millennium, numeral only, no interpretive scheme embedded)	“Victory” vocabulary alone can default to a self-generated-willpower or accumulating-merit reading (a live risk given both Hindu and Buddhist frameworks for spiritual “attainment” through effort). “Vengeance” risks an impersonal karmic-settling reading if decoupled from a personal, judicial God.	Every विजयी/जय occurrence must retain the “through the blood of the Lamb” causal chain (12:11) in surrounding teaching text — victory is Christ’s, appropriated by faith, never self-generated. बदला लिनु must always be paired with इन्साफ गर्नु (judicial framing) rather than left to stand as raw “vengeance.”

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Section 2 — Missing Vocabulary (Genuine Lexical Gaps Requiring Coinage or Compounding)

These are cases where no existing Nepali word or established Bible-translation term covers the concept at all — not cases of a crowded/dangerous neighbor-word, but a true absence requiring deliberate construction.

Concept	Gap Description	Proposed Nepali Construction	Risk	Status
New Jerusalem (proper name, 3:12; 21:2,10; 21:1-8 core-passage context)	No prior Nepali Bible-translation precedent exists for this specific compound proper name within the Revelation corpus (distinct from generic “Jerusalem,” यरूशलेम, already established from Gospels/Acts translation tradition).	नयाँ यरूशलेम (transliterate यरूशलेम per established Gospel/Acts convention + translate नयाँ)	Medium	New entry required in translation memory before Phase 2.
”Apocalyptic” as genre-adjective (curriculum doctrine label, distinct from प्रकाश as the book’s title-noun)	Nepali lacks a native adjectival form distinguishing “this text is symbolic/visionary in genre” from “this is the Book of Revelation.” Conflating the two risks either over-literalizing every image or dismissing the whole book as generically mysterious.	प्रकाशनात्मक (derived adjective) paired with सांकेतिक (symbolic) — सांकेतिक र प्रकाशनात्मक व्याख्या as the doctrine name	Medium	New coinage; native speaker + theologian review required.
Adorned bride imagery (“prepared herself,” “adorned for her husband,” 19:7; 21:2)	Nepali marriage vocabulary for bridal preparation (सिँगारिएको दुलही) is saturated with dowry-negotiation and family-arrangement connotations not present in the source image of the Church’s Spirit-wrought readiness.	सिँगारिएकी दुलही (adjectival phrase, not a standalone glossary term) — retain but always pair with teaching-note clarifying divine, not social, agency in the “adorning.”	High (teaching-note dependency, not lexical)	Flag for translator-note requirement, not new memory entry.
”Myriads of myriads” / innumerable heavenly multitude (5:11; 7:9; 9:16)	Nepali has no single idiomatic numeric-hyperbole term matching the Greek’s rhetorical stacking (μυριάδες μυριάδων). Literal numeral translation (लाखौं लाख / असंख्य) risks sounding like a specific (if very large) census figure rather than a rhetorical device of the apocalyptic genre.	असंख्य (uncountable) preferred over any numeral-based phrase, consistent with the Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation doctrine’s “do not over-literalize” convention already applied to 144,000 and 666.	Low-Medium	Recommend addition to translation memory as a Low-Medium risk entry.
Cowardly / fearful as a vice-category distinct from reverent fear of God (δειλός, 21:8, core passage)	Nepali डरपोक (cowardly) risks bleeding into the register used elsewhere for the appropriate fear/awe of God (डर, भय) found throughout Revelation’s worship scenes (e.g., 14:7; 15:4; 19:5). Without fencing, a reader could wrongly infer that reverent fear of God is itself condemned.	डरपोक (retain) but require an explicit teaching-note distinguishing this from भय/डर used for reverent awe of God elsewhere in the book.	Medium	Flag for translator-note requirement in core-passage teaching material.

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Section 3 — Crowded Semantic Neighborhoods Requiring Fencing

These are cases where Nepali vocabulary already exists and is adequate lexically, but sits dangerously close to — or overlaps with — vocabulary carrying strong, live, non-Christian religious or political associations in Nepal. Each requires deliberate fencing (consistent, exclusive use of the approved term; explicit contrastive framing in teaching material; forbidden-substitution enforcement in Phase 2 validation).

Nepali Term (Approved)	Crowded Neighbor (Forbidden/Risky)	Source of Crowding	Fencing Strategy
सर्वसामर्थी (Almighty)	सर्वशक्तिमान्	शक्ति root ties to the still-practiced Newar Tantric Shakti/Kumari living-goddess cult of the Kathmandu Valley	Absolute forbidden-substitution rule; every occurrence flagged for automated validation check (extends baseline power_of_god rule)
थुमा (Lamb)	पशु-बलि practice vocabulary (sacrificial animal terms)	Living animal-sacrifice tradition at Dakshinkali and the Gadhimai festival	थुमा never modified by verbs implying a worshipper offering it; always paired with reigning/victorious verbs
आराधना गर्नु (Worship)	पूजा	The default, near-universal Nepali/Hindu word for ritual image-worship	Zero-tolerance forbidden substitution across both true and false worship contexts (already Critical in baseline glossary)
सिंहासन (Throne)	(no lexical alternative exists — the risk is associative, not substitutional)	Shah-dynasty royal throne, avatar-legitimated until 2008	Every occurrence must carry an explicit textual/contextual anchor to God/the Lamb; never left as a bare, unqualified “seat of rule”
दोस्रो मृत्यु / आगोको कुण्ड (Second Death/Lake of Fire)	नरक	Naraka, a temporary punishment-stage within Hindu/Buddhist rebirth cosmology	Never नरक; always the full compound, always taught as final/irreversible
नयाँ आकाश, नयाँ पृथ्वी (New Heaven/New Earth)	कल्प, सृष्टि-प्रलय-related vocabulary	Hindu cyclical cosmology (kalpa cycles under Brahmā)	Explicit “final, one-time, not cyclical” teaching note required at every occurrence (21:1,5)
जीवनको पानी (Water of Life)	अमृत	Samudra Manthan nectar-of-immortality myth, seized through cosmic contest between gods and demons	Always paired with सित्तैमा/निःशुल्क and अनुग्रह to reinforce free-gift-not-seized-substance framing
मुद्रा (Seal of God) / छाप (Mark of the Beast)	(risk is inter-term collapse, not external religious collision)	Both concepts are “a mark placed on a person”; using one Nepali word for both would erase the text’s own ownership-vs-coercion contrast	Absolute lexical separation enforced: मुद्रा exclusively for God’s seal, छाप exclusively for the beast’s mark, never interchanged
रहस्य (Mystery)	Tantric/Vajrayāna esoteric “secret teaching” register (guru-restricted initiatory knowledge)	Kathmandu Valley Tantric Hindu and Himalayan Vajrayāna Buddhist traditions	Explicit “now openly disclosed to all believers, no privileged spiritual elite” framing required at every occurrence
पुजारी (Priests, of believers)	पुजारी as caste-linked Brahmin temple-priest role	Nepal’s caste-linked hereditary priestly hierarchy	Explicit “every believer, non-hierarchical, direct access” framing required; cannot be resolved lexically, only contextually
प्राचीनहरू (Elders)	गुरु	Hindu/Buddhist guru-devotion, a major live devotional category in Nepal	गुरु excluded outright; प्राचीनहरू retained with representative-worshiper framing only
अजिङ्गर / प्राचीन सर्प (Dragon)	नाग	Benevolent guardian-serpent folk veneration (Nāg Pañchamī, Kathmandu Valley nāga shrines)	Explicit “this is the evil deceiver, not a guardian spirit” statement required at every occurrence (12:3–17; 20:2)
पशु (Beast)	पशु-बलि vocabulary overlap (same root as Lamb’s collision risk, opposite direction)	Same sacrificial-animal semantic field as थुमा	Context must keep पशु unmistakably monstrous/opposing, in deliberate contrast to थुमा — the two terms function as a matched theological pair and must never be confused in either direction
तन्त्र-मन्त्र गर्ने / मूर्तिपूजक (Sorcerer/Idolater)	Nepal’s living Tantric ritual-magic and murti-veneration practice, culturally normalized rather than exotic	Ethnographic overreach risk — condemning a category of act, not a category of person/culture	Explicit pastoral framing required distinguishing condemnation of occult power/misplaced worship from a blanket judgment on Nepali cultural practice
दुलही (Bride)	Nepali arranged-marriage, dowry, and in-law-hierarchy social frame	Live contemporary Nepali marriage custom	Corporate/covenantal framing note required at every occurrence; no lexical substitute exists

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Section 4 — Transliteration vs. Paraphrase Decision Log

Term	Decision	Rationale
Alpha and Omega	Transliterate (अल्फा र ओमेगा) + gloss	No functional Nepali equivalent for a two-letter Greek-alphabet merism; follows the baseline’s Abba precedent for foreign-script terms retained with explanatory note
Amen / Hallelujah	Transliterate (आमेन / हल्लेलूयाह)	Already established, universal Nepali Christian liturgical transliterations; reused from baseline exactly
Armageddon / Gog and Magog / Michael	Transliterate (आर्मागेडोन / गोग र मागोग / मीखाएल)	Proper names/places with no semantic content to translate; established transliterated forms
New Jerusalem	Hybrid: transliterate proper name + translate modifier (नयाँ यरूशलेम)	यरूशलेम is an established transliteration from prior Bible-translation tradition (Gospels/Acts); नयाँ (new) is fully translatable and load-bearing for the doctrine, so it must not be absorbed into an opaque transliterated block
Who Is, Was, and Is to Come	Paraphrase (full clause) (जो हुनुहुन्छ, जो हुनुहुन्थ्यो, र जो आउनुहुनेछ)	A single-word or short-phrase rendering cannot carry the threefold tense structure that is the entire theological point (God’s sovereignty over past, present, future); compression would erase the doctrine
Almighty	Paraphrase via deliberate coinage (सर्वसामर्थी, not the common सर्वशक्तिमान्)	Requires deviation from ordinary usage precisely because the “natural” Nepali word is doctrinally compromised (शक्ति root); this is a paraphrase-as-fence decision, not a literal-equivalence decision
Second Death / Lake of Fire	Paraphrase (compound, never single native word) (दोस्रो मृत्यु / आगोको कुण्ड)	A single native word (नरक) exists but is forbidden due to its cyclical-rebirth theological freight; compounding forces the reader to encounter the concept fresh rather than mapping it onto an existing cosmology
Lamb	Direct lexical rendering, not transliteration (थुमा)	थुमा is ordinary, comprehensible Nepali vocabulary for a young lamb; the risk is not lexical opacity but theological collision (paśu-bali), so the fencing strategy is contextual framing, not transliteration
Mystery	Direct lexical rendering (रहस्य) with mandatory contrastive framing	Adequate native word exists; risk is associative (esoteric-initiatory frame), not lexical, so paraphrase/coinage is unnecessary — framing notes suffice
Apocalyptic (genre-adjective)	New coinage (compound) (प्रकाशनात्मक, paired with सांकेतिक)	No existing Nepali adjective distinguishes genre-marker use from the book’s proper title (प्रकाश); this is a genuine gap requiring construction, flagged for native speaker + theologian review before entering translation memory
144,000 / 666	Numeral retained (Arabic numerals), not spelled out symbolically	Per house citation convention (baseline: “Verse numbers must remain Arabic numerals”); extended here to symbolic numbers themselves so as not to obscure their function as literal-looking but symbolically-intended figures
Abyss / Hades / Lake of Fire (three distinct “places”)	Paraphrase, kept lexically distinct from one another (अगाध खाल्डो / पाताल / आगोको कुण्ड)	Necessary to prevent collapse into one generic “hell” concept; distinctness of Nepali phrasing mirrors distinctness of the Greek terms

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Section 5 — Ranked List of Highest-Risk Ambiguities

Ranked by combined (a) doctrinal centrality to the core passage (Revelation 21:1–8) and the nine assigned curriculum doctrines, and (b) severity of potential syncretism with dominant Nepali religious/political frameworks. All items below are Critical or High risk per the baseline framework and require mandatory human theologian review in Phase 2.

1. New Heaven and New Earth vs. Hindu cyclical cosmology (kalpa/sṛṣṭi-pralaya) — Revelation 21:1,5, the core passage’s opening claim. Highest-ranked because it is both the theological anchor of this curriculum and the single most direct doctrinal collision with the dominant Nepali cosmological framework (a repeating, not linear, cosmic cycle).

2. Second Death / Lake of Fire vs. नरक (naraka) as a temporary rebirth-cycle way-station — Revelation 21:8, the core passage’s closing verse. Ranked immediately below #1 because it is the negative pole of the same dual-front distinction (see baseline’s उद्धार entry) and appears in the exact same eight verses under study.

3. “He will dwell with them” (tabernacle/dwell) vs. Nepal’s temple-saturated religious geography — Revelation 21:3, within the core passage. High risk because Nepal’s default frame for divine-human proximity is mediated through a temple/shrine, and this verse asserts the opposite: unmediated, permanent divine co-residence.

4. Free gift of the water of life vs. अमृत (Samudra Manthan nectar myth) — Revelation 21:6, within the core passage. High risk because “a substance granting life, given by the divine” is already a vivid, well-known Nepali narrative — but seized through cosmic contest rather than freely given by grace, inverting the text’s own emphasis.

5. Almighty (सर्वसामर्थी) vs. the common सर्वशक्तिमान् — background to Alpha/Omega (21:6) and pervasive throughout the book (1:8; 4:8; 11:17; etc.). Critical because it requires the translator to actively resist the “obvious”/default Nepali word at every single occurrence; a single lapse anywhere in the corpus reintroduces the Tantric-Shakti collision.

6. Sonship of the overcomer (“he will be my son,” 21:7) vs. the Sonship of Christ (परमेश्वरका पुत्र) — within the core passage. High risk of register-collapse: if translated with insufficient distinction, believers’ derivative, adoptive sonship could be read as claiming Christ’s unique, eternal Sonship, or conversely could be flattened by Nepal’s caste-linked social hierarchy into a lesser, provisional status.

7. Lamb (थुमा) vs. paśu-bali sacrificial-animal vocabulary — pervasive throughout the book (5:6–14 et al.), adjacent to the core passage via “the Lamb’s wife” (21:9, immediately following the anchor passage). Critical because Nepal has living, currently-practiced animal-sacrifice festivals (Gadhimai, Dakshinkali) that could reframe the Lamb as a repeated propitiatory offering rather than Christ’s once-for-all, self-offered, now-reigning sacrifice.

8. Worship (आराधना गर्नु) vs. पूजा — pervasive throughout the book, structurally essential to the “Worship of the Lamb” doctrine and the true/false worship contrast (chs. 4–5 vs. ch. 13). Critical risk of default-word substitution at scale across many Phase 2 segments; requires automated validation on every occurrence, not just spot-checking.

9. Sorcerers / idolaters excluded from the city (21:8, core passage) vs. Nepal’s living Tantric ritual-magic and murti-veneration traditions — High risk of the translation reading as ethnographic condemnation of contemporary Nepali cultural practice rather than a targeted condemnation of occult power-seeking and misplaced worship; requires deliberate pastoral framing at the exact verse anchoring this curriculum.

10. Apocalyptic genre-label coinage (प्रकाशनात्मक/सांकेतिक) — book-wide, underlying the “Symbolic and Apocalyptic Interpretation” doctrine. Medium-High risk not from religious collision but from translation instability: because no established Nepali term exists, inconsistent ad hoc renderings across different Phase 2 translators/workers could fragment the curriculum’s interpretive-framework vocabulary before it is locked into translation memory.

11. Bride/Marriage of the Lamb (दुलही) vs. Nepali dowry/arranged-marriage social frame — 19:7–9; 21:2,9 (21:2 falls within the core passage). High risk of a transactional or subordinate-status misreading with no lexical fix available, requiring load-bearing teaching-note discipline at every occurrence.

12. Throne (सिंहासन) vs. Shah-dynasty avatar-monarchy memory — pervasive throughout the book, background to the core passage’s “sat on the throne” (21:5). High risk primarily because the association is associative rather than lexical-substitutable — there is no alternative word, only contextual anchoring as a mitigation, making this a persistent low-grade risk across every throne-vision passage rather than a one-time fixable error.

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Section 6 — Summary Recommendations for Phase 2 Preparation

1. Merge Section 2’s four new-coinage/gap items (New Jerusalem; apocalyptic genre-adjective; adorned-bride phrase; असंख्य for numeric hyperbole) into translation_memory.json with a version increment, each flagged for the appropriate review tier before Phase 2 segment translation begins.
2. Add the Section 3 fencing pairs not already present in the baseline’s forbidden-substitution list (नाग for dragon; गुरु for elders; कल्प-family vocabulary for new heaven/new earth; अमृत for water/tree of life; नरक for second death/lake of fire — the last three already present in the Revelation glossary but reconfirmed here as consistency checks) to the automated validation checklist in 12_ai_translation_requirements.md’s Revelation extension.
3. Treat Revelation 21:1–8 as the mandatory pilot segment for Phase 2 Step 16: it concentrates items ranked #1, #2, #3, #4, and #6 above and should be the first segment translated, reviewed, and locked before parallel batch processing of the remaining chapters begins.
4. Require mandatory human theologian review (never native-speaker-only) for every occurrence of ranked items #1–#9 above, consistent with the doctrine_risk_registry.json Critical/High routing convention already established in the Romans baseline.
5. No chapter of Revelation is exempt from this gap analysis’s fencing rules: chapters without new load-bearing vocabulary (e.g., portions of chs. 2–3’s individual church addresses beyond terms already catalogued, and ch. 18’s judgment-oracle repetitions of already-fenced Babylon/harlot vocabulary) are confirmed reviewed, no new terms rather than silently omitted.

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This analysis must be loaded alongside 08_core_glossary.md and the Revelation-extended bible_term_registry.json before any Phase 2 segment translation of Revelation begins.