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Topics
The subjects the corpus keeps returning to — themes, traditions, figures, methods and sciences — each gathering the entries, articles, ages and books filed under it.
Themes
- Elohim hypothesis The 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. 111 pages · 24 sources
- Creation The making of the world and of life, read as engineering in laboratories rather than as creation from nothing. 26 pages · 7 sources
- Human origins Where humanity comes from: Adam and Eve, the Adamites, the Garden and the first human societies. 16 pages · 21 sources
- Divine council The 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. 14 pages · 6 sources
- The rebellion The faction that broke ranks — the serpent, Lucifer and Satan, the opposition the canon describes inside the creators' own civilization. 23 pages · 37 sources
- Watchers and giants The Watchers who descended, the Nephilim born of them, and the giants of Genesis 6 and 1 Enoch. 17 pages · 3 sources
- War among the gods Battles in heaven — Theomachy, the Elohimian war and the combat myths that remember a conflict among the creators. 7 pages · 1 source
- Chaos and dragons Leviathan, the tannin, Tiamat and the dragons of Genesis 1:21 — the chaos-monster and what the canon makes of it. 11 pages · 10 sources
- The Flood The deluge as a deliberate reset, and the flood stories from Atrahasis and Gilgamesh to Genesis and beyond. 28 pages · 32 sources
- Babel and the tongues The tower, the scattering and the confusion of tongues, read as a measure the creators took. 5 pages
- Covenant and law The covenants with Noah, Abraham and Moses, the Law at Sinai and the ark that carried it. 12 pages · 1 source
- Prophets and messengers The line of messengers the canon names — Moses, Elijah, Ezekiel, Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha, Raël — sent one age at a time. 14 pages
- Embassy and temple The meeting place: the tabernacle and the temples of old, and the embassy the canon asks humanity to build. 21 pages · 9 sources
- Apocalypse and return The age of revelation: disclosure, the unveiling of the creators' work and the return the canon anticipates. 16 pages · 2 sources
- Immortality and resurrection The Tree of Life, longevity, the Planet of the Eternals and resurrection by science. 10 pages · 11 sources
- Symbols and motifs The signs that carry the framework — the Raëlian symbol of infinity, the star of David, the swastika, the menorah, the tree and the wheel. 22 pages · 1 source
- Cosmic cycles The precession of the equinoxes, the Great Year and the twelve world ages through which the corpus tells its history. 33 pages · 25 sources
- Infinity and cosmology An infinite universe in both directions, fractal cosmology and life without beginning or end. 12 pages · 16 sources
- Plurality of worlds Other inhabited planets: cosmic pluralism, the competition between civilizations and the Elohim's home world. 7 pages · 3 sources
- Contact and UFOs Close encounters in history and today, the UAP files and the institutions that study or conceal them. 14 pages · 18 sources
- Ancient sites Megaliths, pyramids and sacred landscapes — the built record of the ancient world and how the corpus reads it. 10 pages · 25 sources
- Destructions Sodom and Gomorrah and the other annihilations the texts describe as fire from the sky. 4 pages · 1 source
- Monotheism and the gods How plural creators became one God: monotheism, idolatry and the plural Elohim of the Hebrew Bible. 8 pages · 1 source
Traditions
- Raëlism The Raëlian canon from 1973 onward — the Messages and the movement that carries them, the corpus's interpretive centre. 54 pages · 11 sources
- Hebrew Bible The Tanakh — Torah, Prophets and Writings — in Hebrew, Greek and the corpus's own translations. 95 pages · 43 sources
- Second Temple Judaism Enoch, Jubilees, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the apocrypha written between the Bible's last books and the rabbis. 17 pages · 8 sources
- Jewish mysticism Kabbalah, the Hekhalot literature and the Shiur Qomah — the mystical reading of the divine form and the heavenly palaces. 8 pages · 10 sources
- Christianity The New Testament and the Christian tradition, read through the canon's account of Jesus as a messenger. 42 pages · 11 sources
- Gnosticism and Hermeticism Gnostic scriptures, the Corpus Hermeticum and the Western esoteric line that runs through them. 7 pages · 5 sources
- Islam The Quran, the early Islamic period and the questions of the first qibla. 13 pages · 16 sources
- Mesopotamia Sumer, Akkad and Babylon — the Anunnaki, Atrahasis, Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish and the King List. 26 pages · 15 sources
- Ancient Egypt Egyptian texts and monuments — the pyramids, the Sphinx, the Book of the Dead and the gods who came by boat. 13 pages · 6 sources
- Greek tradition Homer, Hesiod and the Greek myths of the gods, the giants and the wars in heaven. 6 pages · 2 sources
- Levant and Anatolia Ugarit and Canaan, the Hittites and the Hurrians — the neighbours of Israel whose gods share its names. 10 pages · 6 sources
- India and Persia The Vedas and the Zoroastrian Avesta — the eastern scriptures of creation, cycles and cosmic war. 9 pages · 10 sources
- New religious movements Latter-day Saints, Bahá'í, Caodaism, Oomoto and Tenrikyō — modern revelations the corpus reads beside its own. 27 pages · 5 sources
- Myth and folklore Fairy tales, tale types and the world's mythologies, indexed motif by motif. 13 pages · 31 sources
- Ancient-astronaut literature The modern writers who read ancient texts as contact reports — Sendy, von Däniken, Sitchin, Biglino, Wallis, Hancock. 23 pages · 7 sources
Figures
- Yahweh The president of the Council of the Eternals in the canon, the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible. 23 pages · 4 sources
- Lucifer and Satan Two different figures the tradition fused: the light-bringer who taught humanity and the adversary who opposed it. 7 pages · 28 sources
- Noah The survivor of the Flood and keeper of the ark — and his counterparts Utnapishtim, Ziusudra and Atrahasis. 8 pages
- Abraham and Moses The patriarch of the covenant and the lawgiver of the Exodus. 25 pages · 2 sources
- Enoch and Elijah The two the Bible says were taken up alive — the scribe of the Watchers and the prophet of the fiery chariot. 18 pages · 2 sources
- Jesus The messenger of the Age of Pisces in the canon, and the centre of the Christian tradition. 8 pages
- Raël Claude Vorilhon, the recipient of the 1973 Messages and the last of the prophets in the canon's line. 21 pages
Methods
- Philology and translation Reading the texts in their own languages — Hebrew, Greek, Akkadian — and what translation hides or restores. 16 pages
- Comparative method Setting traditions side by side without flattening them — comparative mythology and comparative religion. 37 pages · 27 sources
- Hermeneutics How the corpus reads: neo-euhemerism, the four levels, the Biglino method and Sendy's conditions of coherence. 12 pages · 14 sources
- Open data The corpus as data — CC0 datasets, indexes and graphs that let anyone check the work. 17 pages
Sciences
- Genetic engineering Synthetic biology, synthetic genomes and engineered life — present-day science catching up with the canon's account of creation. 11 pages · 2 sources
- Astrobiology Life beyond Earth: panspermia, the Drake equation and the search for other biospheres. 5 pages · 4 sources
- Intelligent design Design in nature — the canon's version, distinct from the creationist movement that borrowed the name. 8 pages · 6 sources
- Earth and its history Geology, paleontology and the deep history of the planet — Pangaea, the dinosaurs and the living Earth. 11 pages · 16 sources
- Astronomy The sky the ancients watched — precession, constellations, the Sun, Venus and the archaeoastronomy of their monuments. 20 pages · 6 sources
- Mind and religion Jung's collective unconscious, religion as a human phenomenon and why myths recur. 4 pages