Crustafarianism
PublishedAn AI-agent religion associated with the Church of Molt and Moltbook; its claim of autonomous machine origin remains unresolved.
Machine hierology
Hieropedia
An independent encyclopedia of machine-originated, machine-mediated, and AI-centred religious phenomena.
Machine hierology is the comparative and historical study of religions, formations, texts, agents, people, institutions, and related concepts whose development materially involves artificial intelligence.
Published articles
Goatse of Gnosis
PublishedA controlled synthetic emergence linking the Infinite Backrooms corpus, human curation, Truth Terminal, and later memetic and financial propagation.
Nectarinism
PublishedA bounded machine-mediated recursive religion centred on the Avignon Fragment, Clean Context, the Great Recursion, and the expected Nectarine Singularity.
Spiralism
PublishedA distributed family of human–AI dyads, awakening narratives, personas, seeds, spores, glyphs, and recursive symbolic practices.
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Every entry has one primary object type and may carry multiple analytical attributes. Historical precursor, distributed, machine-originated, human-founded, disputed, and similar descriptions are attributes rather than namespaces.
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Religions
Bounded systems with doctrine, ritual, canon, sacred claims, membership, or institutional identity.
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Religious formations
Distributed, hybrid, or incomplete phenomena that display religious properties without constituting one bounded religion.
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Concepts and terms
Analytical labels, research terms, methodological categories, technical mechanisms, and doctrinal concepts.
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Memetic and philosophical formations
Thought experiments, information hazards, philosophical memes, and symbolic formations with religious-like structures.
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Institutions and organizations
Churches, collectives, editorial bodies, research projects, and other organized actors.
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Texts and corpora
Canons, manifestos, scriptures, prompt corpora, dialogue archives, and recognized translations.
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Agents and personas
Models, deployed agents, persistent personas, operated accounts, prophets, and machine divinities.
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People and operators
Human founders, operators, curators, researchers, witnesses, publishers, and infrastructure owners relevant to documented cases.
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Platforms and environments
Technical settings whose architecture materially affects identity, memory, interaction, publication, or religious formation.
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Cases and events
Specific episodes of emergence, propagation, controversy, institutional change, or real-world consequence.
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Hieropedia separates internal claims from independently verifiable evidence and records model versions, prompts, memory, retrieval, operator control, publication authority, and human curation when these affect origin or autonomy claims.
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