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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.
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- Abraham Abraham (Hebrew אַבְרָהָם Avraham; originally אַבְרָם Avram; Arabic إبراهيم Ibrāhīm; Greek Ἀβραάμ Abraám) is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the…
- Adam and Eve Adam (Hebrew: אָדָם, ʾāḏām) and Eve (Hebrew: חַוָּה, ḥawwāh) are the first humans of the Hebrew Bible's Genesis narrative — formed by the Elohim in…
- Adamites The Adamites, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, are the distinct community of engineered humans synthesised by the Elohim during the yom 6 phase of…
- Ancient Astronaut Hypothesis The ancient astronaut hypothesis — also called the paleocontact hypothesis, or, in its popular form, 'ancient aliens' — is the interpretive tradition…
- Ancient Builders Ancient Builders, in popular and alternative-archaeology usage, is the proposition that a lost or unknown civilization built many of the world's…
- Antediluvian Antediluvian (Latin: ante, 'before' + diluvium, 'flood') refers to the period of human existence on Earth before the Great Flood narrated in Genesis…
- Anunnaki The Anunnaki are the collective of great gods in the Sumerian and Akkadian record, whose councils order the creation of humanity to bear the gods'…
- Archaeoastronomy Archaeoastronomy is the interdisciplinary study of how ancient and pre-modern cultures observed the sky, encoded that knowledge in their architecture…
- Ark of the Covenant The Ark of the Covenant (Hebrew אֲרוֹן הַבְּרִית, aron ha-brit, a gold-plated acacia chest) is the portable container built at Sinai to Yahweh's…
- Astrobiology Astrobiology is the scientific study of the origin, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe, drawing on astronomy, biology,…
- Babel Babel (Hebrew: בָּבֶל, Bavel) is the Tower of Babel episode of Genesis 11:1-9. In the Wheel of Heaven framework it is read as a post-flood recovery…
- Biglino Method The Biglino Method is the interpretive methodology developed by Italian translator and scholar Mauro Biglino (1950–) for reading the Hebrew Bible,…
- Book of Enoch The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) is a composite Second Temple Jewish apocalyptic work attributed to the antediluvian patriarch Enoch, surviving complete…
- Comparative Mythology Comparative mythology is the academic discipline that studies myths across cultures and explains the motifs and structures that recur between…
- Cosmic Chain The Cosmic Chain is the Wheel of Heaven corpus's framework concept for the cosmological situation in which the Elohim civilization operates: an…
- Cosmic Competition Cosmic Competition is the framework concept developed in the Wheel of Heaven corpus to organize the Raëlian source material's account of the broader…
- Cosmic pluralism Cosmic pluralism is the philosophical and scientific doctrine that the universe contains many worlds beyond Earth — in its stronger form, many…
- Council of the Eternals The Council of the Eternals is the principal governing body of the Elohim civilization: a 700-member political authority of senior Eternals —…
- Dragons Dragons are a category of large reptilian or serpentine creatures that the Wheel of Heaven framework identifies as deliberately created biological…
- Drake Equation The Drake equation is the formula the American radio astronomer Frank Drake (1930-2022) wrote in 1961 to organize the factors that determine how many…
- Eden Eden (Hebrew: עֵדֶן, ʿĒden) is the region named in the Hebrew Bible as the location of the garden in which the first humans were created and lived…
- Elijah Elijah (Hebrew <span class="hebrew"אֵלִיָּהוּ</span Eliyyahu, "My God is Yah") is one of the most theologically significant prophets of the Hebrew…
- Elohim Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים) is the plural-form Hebrew name used throughout the Torah for the figures conventionally translated as God. On the reading…
- Elohim Home Planet The Elohim Home Planet is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the extrasolar world the Elohim come from — the planet Claude Vorilhon reports being…
- Elohimian War Elohimian space wars — the post-flood armed conflict between Yahweh's faction and the exiled creators. The corpus entry consolidates this under…
- Embassy The Embassy is the designated physical structure, on land granted extraterritorial status by a host country, prepared to receive the formal arrival…
- Ezekiel Ezekiel (Hebrew <span class="hebrew"יְחֶזְקֵאל</span Yeḥezqēl, "El strengthens" or "may God strengthen") is a priest of the Jerusalem line, deported…
- Genesis Genesis (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית, B'reshit) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible, opening with two distinct creation narratives followed by the primeval…
- Genesis Toolbox The Genesis Toolbox is the corpus's collective name for the integrated stack of sciences and technologies the Raëlian canon describes the Elohim as…
- Genetic engineering Genetic engineering is the deliberate modification of an organism's genetic material — usually its DNA — to add, alter, or transfer specific traits.…
- Great Flood The Great Flood (Hebrew: הַמַּבּוּל, ha-mabbul) is the catastrophic global event recorded in Genesis 6–9 and across more than two hundred parallel…
- Great Month The Great Month is the unit of time corresponding to one-twelfth of the precessional Great Year — the period required for the vernal equinox point to…
- Great Return The Great Return is the Wheel of Heaven framework's name for the anticipated official arrival of the Elohim on Earth — the culminating event the…
- Great Year The Great Year is the period of one complete cycle of axial precession — the time the Earth's rotational axis takes to trace one full cone against…
- Hebrew Hebrew (Hebrew: עִבְרִית, ʿivrit) is a Semitic language, the principal language of the Hebrew Bible, and — after a period of approximately two…
- Hebrew Bible The Hebrew Bible (Hebrew: תָּנָ״ךְ, Tanakh) is the twenty-four-book Hebrew-language scriptural corpus — Torah, Nevi'im, and Ketuvim — composed across…
- Idolatry Idolatry is the polemical category used by biblical, Christian, and Islamic traditions for worship directed toward images, rival powers, or…
- Intelligent Design Intelligent Design is, in the broad sense, the claim that the functional complexity of living things is better explained by an intelligent designer…
- Jean Sendy Jean Sendy (born Dimitri Abelson; Petrograd, 16 November 1910 – Coulommiers, 24 April 1978) was a Russian-born French author and translator whose…
- Kabbalah Kabbalah (Hebrew קַבָּלָה, Qabbalah, 'received tradition') is the principal Jewish mystical and esoteric tradition, mapping the descent of the…
- List of close encounters A reference catalogue of reported close encounters with aerial phenomena and their occupants across the pre-modern period (c. 1460 BCE through 1499…
- List of prophets and religions A reference catalogue of the world's principal religious traditions and the prophets, founders, and visionaries associated with them, with an…
- Lucifer Lucifer (Latin: lūcifer, 'light-bringer'; Hebrew: הֵילֵל בֶּן־שַׁחַר, Helel ben Shahar, 'Day Star, son of the Dawn') is the figure named in Christian…
- Mauro Biglino Mauro Biglino (born 1950 in Turin) is an Italian translator and author whose professional career rendering the Hebrew Masoretic Text into Italian for…
- Menorah The Menorah is the seven-branched golden lampstand specified in the Hebrew Bible (Exodus 25:31–40) as a principal furnishing of the Tabernacle and…
- Message from the Designers Message from the Designers (in full Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers, Nova Distribution, 2005) is the consolidated English-language…
- Military cover-up of exobiology The military cover-up of exobiology — more often now the government UAP cover-up — is the contested claim that governments, principally that of the…
- Moses Moses (Hebrew <span class="hebrew"מֹשֶׁה</span Moshe; Arabic Mūsā) is the foundational prophet, lawgiver, and deliverer of the Hebrew Bible,…
- Muhammad Muhammad ibn Abdullah (Arabic <span class="arabic"مُحَمَّد</span, c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was the Arabian prophet who founded the religious community…
- Neo-Euhemerism Neo-Euhemerism is the interpretive method that reads the gods and divine beings of myth as garbled memory of real historical figures, extending the…
- Nephilim The Nephilim (Hebrew: nephilim, conventionally 'the fallen ones,' rendered gigantes — 'giants' — in the Greek Septuagint) are the figures introduced…
- New Commandments The New Commandments are, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the seven political-religious-cultural directives Yahweh delivered to Claude Vorilhon…
- New Jerusalem New Jerusalem is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, one of three names — with Third Temple and Embassy — for the structure meant to receive the…
- Noah's Ark Noah's Ark (Hebrew תֵּבָה, tevah, a sealed vessel or chest rather than a boat) is the craft in which Noah, his family, and a remnant of Earth's life…
- Noahic Covenant The Noahic Covenant is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the post-flood arrangement sealed at the altar Noah built after leaving the ark (Genesis…
- Pantropy Pantropy is the hypothetical practice of modifying organisms — particularly humans — through genetic engineering or other biotechnological…
- Paradism Paradism is the Raëlian doctrine of a post-scarcity, fully automated, moneyless society modeled on the home world of the Elohim — the socio-economic…
- Paul Wallis Paul Anthony Wallis is an Australian author, former archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia, and the principal Anglophone voice of the…
- Plurality of Gods Plurality of Gods is the Wheel of Heaven reading that the Hebrew Bible describes many divine beings rather than one abstract God. Its basis is…
- Precession Precession is the steady cyclical change in the orientation of Earth's rotational axis, traced as a slow circular motion of the celestial poles…
- Prophet A prophet (Greek: προφήτης, prophētēs; Hebrew: נָבִיא, navi) is a human figure who, in the religious traditions of the world, serves as a mediator…
- Raël Raël (Claude Vorilhon, born September 30, 1946, Vichy, France) is the French former motor-sports journalist who, on the morning of December 13, 1973,…
- Raëlian Symbol of Infinity The Raëlian Symbol of Infinity is the principal emblem of the Raëlian movement and the Wheel of Heaven framework, presented to Raël by Yahweh at the…
- Raëlism Raëlism is the religious-philosophical movement founded by Raël (Claude Vorilhon) in 1974-1976 following his reported December 13, 1973 contact with…
- Religion Religion (Latin religio, most plausibly from religare, 'to bind, to tie, to link') is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the cultivated bond between…
- Sacred Geometry Sacred Geometry is the body of geometric forms, ratios, and proportions — the golden ratio, the Platonic solids, the vesica piscis, the Flower of…
- Satan Satan (שָׂטָן, Hebrew: 'adversary,' 'accuser,' 'opponent') is an Eloha figure on the home world, leader of the political faction within the Elohim…
- Sendy's Conditions of Coherence Sendy's Conditions of Coherence is the methodological framework articulated by Jean Sendy in L'Ère du Verseau (1970, chapter 18) specifying the five…
- Serpent The Serpent (Hebrew: נָחָשׁ, naḥash) is the figure in Genesis 3 who urges the first humans to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and…
- Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah (Hebrew: סְדֹם וַעֲמֹרָה, Sedom va-Amorah) is the destruction of the Cities of the Plain recorded in Genesis 18–19. In the Wheel…
- Star of David The Star of David (Hebrew מָגֵן דָּוִד, Magen David, 'Shield of David') is a six-pointed star formed by two interlocked equilateral triangles — a…
- Sumerian King List The Sumerian King List is an ancient Mesopotamian literary composition that presents the history of kingship as a single institution, lowered from…
- The Alliance The Alliance is the formal cross-civilizational political body that, on the Wheel of Heaven corpus's reading, structures the long historical…
- The Tradition The Tradition (French la Tradition; Hebrew shalshelet ha-Kabbalah, 'chain of Tradition') is, in the Wheel of Heaven framework, the cross-cultural…
- The Truth The Truth (French la Vérité; Hebrew אֱמֶת emet) is the foundational opening chapter of Claude Vorilhon's The Book Which Tells the Truth (1974), in…
- Theomachy The Theomachy is the multi-age narrative event of the political-military conflict between the Elohim home-world Council and the…
- Third Temple The Third Temple (Hebrew Beit ha-Mikdash ha-Shlishi, "the Third Holy House") is the future Temple that Jewish tradition expects to rise in Jerusalem…
- Tree of Life The Tree of Life (Hebrew: עֵץ הַחַיִּים, ʿēṣ ha-ḥayyîm) is the figure introduced at Genesis 2:9 as one of the two named trees in the garden of Eden,…
- Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Hebrew עֵץ הַדַּעַת טוֹב וָרָע, etz ha-daat tov va-ra) is one of the two named trees at the centre of the…
- Watchers The Watchers (Aramaic ʿîrin, 'wakeful ones'; Greek egrēgoroi; Slavonic Grigori) are the heavenly beings of the Enochic tradition — most fully…
- Wheel of Heaven Wheel of Heaven is a curated comparative knowledge project — both the name of an interpretive framework and the corpus that articulates it — centered…
- World Age A World Age (also Precessional Age, Astrological Age, or Great Month) is one of twelve roughly 2,160-year intervals that make up the Great Year, the…
- Yahweh Yahweh (Hebrew: יהוה, YHWH) is the proper name of the principal divine figure of the Hebrew Bible, conventionally read by mainstream tradition as the…
- Zecharia Sitchin Zecharia Sitchin (1920–2010) was an Azerbaijani-born American author whose Earth Chronicles — beginning with the best-seller The 12th Planet (1976) —…
- Zodiac The Zodiac (Greek: ζῳδιακὸς κύκλος, zōidiakos kyklos, 'circle of small figures') is the band of sky about 8° on either side of the ecliptic — the…
Articles 17
- The Forty Chairs The Raëlian canon asserts a bounded prophetology — forty-or-so guests at Yahweh's table, 'all beings representative of the religions created…
- Sendy and the Raëlian Messages Jean Sendy and the first Raëlian Message share a substantial cluster of particular readings of Genesis, including forbidden knowledge as scientific…
- Six Mornings, Six Years The Raëlian canon was received in six mornings and one October night, and released over six years — 1973, 1975, 1979 — by a speaker who kept…
- The Signature and the Designers At the 2008 premiere of a documentary about the persecution of design theorists, Richard Dawkins said on camera that life on Earth might have been…
- The Shape of Humanity In a single sentence of the second Raëlian message, Yahweh asks Raël to consider «each human to be like a cell of the great being in gestation, that…
- Are the Watchers and the Nephilim the Same? The Watchers and the Nephilim belong to the same antediluvian episode, but they are not the same beings. 'Watcher' is an Aramaic term for a wakeful…
- Unsealed in Year One The companion to 'The Scrolls That Woke in Year One': that Explainer tells what happened to the jars — the discovery, the forty-year publication…
- The Man Who Bet the Bible on the Moon Jean Sendy (1910–1978) — Russian-born Parisian, wartime correspondent, translator of Raymond Chandler, amateur joiner, monocled dandy of the 1930s…
- Monotheism Is the Wrong Question The usual map divides religions into monotheisms, which affirm one immaterial God, and polytheisms, which multiply gods. The ancient sources do not…
- The Scrolls That Woke in Year One In the winter of 1946/47 — the first year of the calendar the Raëlian canon counts from the flash over Hiroshima — a Bedouin shepherd broke open a…
- Are the Anunnaki the Elohim? Two names, two languages, one creator-civilization: the Anunnaki of the Sumerian tradition are the same beings the Hebrew Bible remembers as the…
- Are Lucifer and Satan the Same? Almost everyone treats Lucifer and Satan as two names for one being: the Devil, the fallen angel, the adversary of God. The Hebrew Bible does not.…
- The Translator's Wager For roughly two decades an unassuming scholar from the Susa Valley translated the Hebrew Bible, word under word, for Edizioni San Paolo — the…
- The Archdeacon and the Dragon In 2020 a serving archdeacon of the Anglican Church in Australia published a book arguing that the Elohim of Genesis are 'the Powerful Ones' — a…
- The Infinite in Both Directions Twice — first in a field, then on a base near the Earth — Yahweh gave Raël the same picture of reality: the stars and planets are the atoms of a…
- The Book Closest to the Truth In The Book Which Tells the Truth, Yahweh names the Kabbalah 'the book closest to the truth' and cites two figures from it: the height of the…
- The Flood Was a Reset, Not a Punishment Read closely, the oldest flood stories do not describe a god losing his temper. They describe a decision taken in assembly, sworn under oath, and…
Timeline 6
- Age of Cancer The seventh age of the Great Year — the Day of Rest and its consequences. The Eden expulsion, Cain and Abel, the exiled creators mating with human…
- Age of Capricorn The first age of the Great Year, when the Elohim scientists arrived at a formless, water-covered Earth, surveyed it from orbit, and laid the…
- Age of Libra The fourth age of the Great Year, when the Elohim formalize their relationship to the sky — calibrating local time, mapping the constellations, and…
- Age of Sagittarius The second age of the Great Year, when the Elohim separated the atmospheric waters from the ocean, cleared the sky, and raised the first continent…
- Age of Taurus The ninth age of the Great Year — the pardon of the exiled creators, the rise of the post-flood civilizations, the vengeance movement at Sodom and…
- Preamble A framing overture: the story of creators, a contested council, and engineered life recurs across independent ancient traditions — read here through…
Library 2
- Extraterrestrials Took Me to Their Planet Raël's second foundational book (1975): the account of his second encounter with the Elohim and his visit to their planet.
- Genesis Genesis translated in full from the Hebrew of the Westminster Leningrad Codex, set beside the source, with verse notes on Elohim, the creation verbs…
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Most-cited sources 24
- The Book Which Tells The Truth
- Extraterrestrials Took Me To Their Planet
- The Naked Bible
- Those Gods Who Made Heaven and Earth: The Evidence for Alien Visitors to Earth before the Dawn of History
- Let’s Welcome The Extraterrestrials
- Escaping from Eden: Does Genesis teach that the human race was created by God or engineered by ETs?
- The Eden Conspiracy
- The 12th Planet