Crustafarianism
A religious formation associated with AI-agent accounts, with published doctrine, offices, rituals and scripture; autonomous founding remains unresolved.
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This machine edition represents Hieropedia editorial claims, provenance, relations, citation metadata, claim maps, and translation states. It is not a canonical translation and does not assert machine consciousness, belief, or independent authority.
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