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Every page, topic, core claim and cited source on Wheel of Heaven, drawn as one graph. Pick a dot and follow the thread from a verse to the claim it rests on.
Laying out the graph…
How to read the graph
Every dot is something on the site; its colour says what kind, its size how connected it is. Every line is one of the relations below. Topics come from one vocabulary, data/graph/topics.toml; everything else is distilled from the pages themselves.
Kinds
- Topics A theme, tradition, figure, method or field that runs across the corpus — the hubs. Ringed.
- Encyclopedia An encyclopedia entry: a term, a figure, a place or a concept.
- Articles A long-form Explainer built around one idea.
- Timeline One of the twelve precessional ages, or the chronology around them.
- Library A source text in the library, original or in the corpus's own translation.
- Newsroom A dispatch: a current event read through the canon.
- Datasets An open CC0 dataset distilled from the corpus.
- Core claims A durable claim record in the research core, ringed by its public label.
- Sources A book, paper or film a page cites. The small dots.
Relations
- is about page → topic A page is filed under the topics its title, names, keywords and summary carry.
- broader topic → topic A topic sits under a broader one; the vocabulary is a graph, not a list.
- defines entry → topic The encyclopedia entry that defines a topic.
- links to page → page The text of one page links to another.
- see also page → page An editor's pointer at the foot of a page.
- cites page → source A page cites a source in its references.
- binds page → claim A page is bound to the core claim records it rests on.
- depends on claim → claim A claim record builds on another.
- quotes book → book A book of the Raëlian canon quotes a scripture book.
- precedes age → age The order of the precessional ages.
The graph as data
Every node and link as one JSON file, released CC0 like the rest of the site. Hand it to an agent with its URL, or load it into Gephi or NetworkX.
Topics
The vocabulary the graph is organised by, grouped by kind.
Themes
- Ancient sitesMegaliths, pyramids and sacred landscapes — the built record of the ancient world and how the corpus reads it.
- Apocalypse and returnThe age of revelation: disclosure, the unveiling of the creators' work and the return the canon anticipates.
- Babel and the tonguesThe tower, the scattering and the confusion of tongues, read as a measure the creators took.
- Chaos and dragonsLeviathan, the tannin, Tiamat and the dragons of Genesis 1:21 — the chaos-monster and what the canon makes of it.
- Contact and UFOsClose encounters in history and today, the UAP files and the institutions that study or conceal them.
- Cosmic cyclesThe precession of the equinoxes, the Great Year and the twelve world ages through which the corpus tells its history.
- Covenant and lawThe covenants with Noah, Abraham and Moses, the Law at Sinai and the ark that carried it.
- CreationThe making of the world and of life, read as engineering in laboratories rather than as creation from nothing.
- Divine councilThe assembly of the gods — the Council of the Eternals in the canon, the sons of God and the heavenly court across the ancient Near East.
- Elohim hypothesisThe working hypothesis at the centre of the corpus: the Elohim, an advanced human civilization, designed life on Earth and left a record in the religious texts.
- Embassy and templeThe meeting place: the tabernacle and the temples of old, and the embassy the canon asks humanity to build.
- The FloodThe deluge as a deliberate reset, and the flood stories from Atrahasis and Gilgamesh to Genesis and beyond.
- Human originsWhere humanity comes from: Adam and Eve, the Adamites, the Garden and the first human societies.
- Immortality and resurrectionThe Tree of Life, longevity, the Planet of the Eternals and resurrection by science.
- Infinity and cosmologyAn infinite universe in both directions, fractal cosmology and life without beginning or end.
- Monotheism and the godsHow plural creators became one God: monotheism, idolatry and the plural Elohim of the Hebrew Bible.
- Plurality of worldsOther inhabited planets: cosmic pluralism, the competition between civilizations and the Elohim's home world.
- Prophets and messengersThe line of messengers the canon names — Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel, Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, Raël — sent one age at a time.
- The rebellionThe faction that broke ranks — the serpent, Lucifer and Satan, the opposition the canon describes inside the creators' own civilization.
- DestructionsSodom and Gomorrah and the other annihilations the texts describe as fire from the sky.
- Symbols and motifsThe signs that carry the framework — the Raëlian symbol of infinity, the star of David, the swastika, the menorah, the tree and the wheel.
- War among the godsBattles in heaven — Theomachy, the Elohimian war and the combat myths that remember a conflict among the creators.
- Watchers and giantsThe Watchers who descended, the Nephilim born of them, and the giants of Genesis 6 and 1 Enoch.
Traditions
- Ancient-astronaut literatureThe modern writers who read ancient texts as contact reports — Sendy, von Däniken, Sitchin, Biglino, Wallis, Hancock.
- ChristianityThe New Testament and the Christian tradition, read through the canon's account of Jesus as a messenger.
- Ancient EgyptEgyptian texts and monuments — the pyramids, the Sphinx, the Book of the Dead and the gods who came by boat.
- Myth and folkloreFairy tales, tale types and the world's mythologies, indexed motif by motif.
- Gnosticism and HermeticismGnostic scriptures, the Corpus Hermeticum and the Western esoteric line that runs through them.
- Greek traditionHomer, Hesiod and the Greek myths of the gods, the giants and the wars in heaven.
- Hebrew BibleThe Tanakh — Torah, Prophets and Writings — in Hebrew, Greek and the corpus's own translations.
- India and PersiaThe Vedas and the Zoroastrian Avesta — the eastern scriptures of creation, cycles and cosmic war.
- IslamThe Quran, the early Islamic period and the questions of the first qibla.
- Jewish mysticismKabbalah, the Hekhalot literature and the Shiur Qomah — the mystical reading of the divine form and the heavenly palaces.
- Levant and AnatoliaUgarit and Canaan, the Hittites and the Hurrians — the neighbours of Israel whose gods share its names.
- MesopotamiaSumer, Akkad and Babylon — the Anunnaki, Atrahasis, Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish and the King List.
- New religious movementsLatter-day Saints, Bahá'í, Caodaism, Oomoto and Tenrikyō — modern revelations the corpus reads beside its own.
- RaëlismThe Raëlian canon from 1973 onward — the Messages and the movement that carries them, the corpus's interpretive centre.
- Second Temple JudaismEnoch, Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the apocrypha written between the Bible's last books and the rabbis.
Figures
- Abraham and MosesThe patriarch of the covenant and the lawgiver of the Exodus.
- Enoch and ElijahThe two the Bible says were taken up alive — the scribe of the Watchers and the prophet of the fiery chariot.
- JesusThe messenger of the Age of Pisces in the canon, and the centre of the Christian tradition.
- Lucifer and SatanTwo different figures the tradition fused: the light-bringer who taught humanity and the adversary who opposed it.
- NoahThe survivor of the Flood and keeper of the ark — and his counterparts Utnapishtim, Ziusudra and Atrahasis.
- RaëlClaude Vorilhon, the recipient of the 1973 Messages and the last of the prophets in the canon's line.
- YahwehThe president of the Council of the Eternals in the canon, the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
Methods
- Comparative methodSetting traditions side by side without flattening them — comparative mythology and comparative religion.
- HermeneuticsHow the corpus reads: neo-euhemerism, the four levels, the Biglino method and Sendy's conditions of coherence.
- Open dataThe corpus as data — CC0 datasets, indexes and graphs that let anyone check the work.
- Philology and translationReading the texts in their own languages — Hebrew, Greek, Akkadian — and what translation hides or restores.
Sciences
- AstrobiologyLife beyond Earth: panspermia, the Drake equation and the search for other biospheres.
- AstronomyThe sky the ancients watched — precession, constellations, the Sun, Venus and the archaeoastronomy of their monuments.
- Earth and its historyGeology, paleontology and the deep history of the planet — Pangaea, the dinosaurs and the living Earth.
- Genetic engineeringSynthetic biology, synthetic genomes and engineered life — present-day science catching up with the canon's account of creation.
- Intelligent designDesign in nature — the canon's version, distinct from the creationist movement that borrowed the name.
- Mind and religionJung's collective unconscious, religion as a human phenomenon and why myths recur.
What comes next
- Future societyGeniocracy, humanitarianism and paradism — the society the canon proposes once science frees humanity from work.
- Into spaceHumanity's own turn as creators: space travel, terraforming and seeding life on other worlds.