Wiki Entry

A wiki entry is a reference-style definition of a term, figure, place, text, motif, or concept. Encyclopedia entries — not essays.

Wiki entries live at data-content/wiki/{slug}.md and serve at https://www.wheelofheaven.world/wiki/{slug}/. Translations mirror the structure under data-content/{lang}/wiki/{slug}.md.

Anatomy#

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title = "Elohim"
description = "Biblical Hebrew term for the creators of life on Earth — plural noun translated as 'those who came from the sky.'"
template = "wiki-page.html"
toc = true

[extra]
claim_type = "direct"
editorial_pass = "2026-05"
category = "Core Concepts"
alternative_names = ["Aluhim", "Eloah (singular)"]
see_also = [
    { title = "Yahweh", path = "/wiki/yahweh/" },
    { title = "Council of Eternals", path = "/wiki/council-of-the-eternals/" }
]
external_links = [
    { title = "Elohim — Wikipedia", url = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim" }
]
references = [
    { id = "the-book-which-tells-the-truth", locator = "Chapter 1" },
    { id = "a-hebrew-and-english-lexicon-of-the-old-testament" }
]
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**Elohim** (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים) is a Hebrew word traditionally translated as
"God" but grammatically plural, meaning "those who came from the sky."
In the Wheel of Heaven hypothesis, the Elohim are an advanced human
civilization that designed life on Earth.

## Etymology

The word combines a root meaning "to ascend" or "to come from above"
with a plural ending. The singular form *Eloah* appears in older biblical
texts...

## In Wheel of Heaven canon

The canon reads Elohim not as "gods" but as a council of advanced
designers...

## In comparative tradition

Mesopotamian texts describe similar collective creator-figures...

## See also

- [Yahweh](@/wiki/yahweh.md)
- [Council of Eternals](@/wiki/council-of-eternals.md)

Frontmatter — required fields#

Frontmatter — [extra] fields#

Reference anchors#

On wiki pages, the visible citation marker and the reference list entry share the same identifier. That means a citation written as cite(id="sefaria") lands on the entry rendered from [[extra.references]] with id = "sefaria".

Use stable source IDs whenever the source already exists in data/sources.json. If a source has not been registered yet, keep using a legacy title/url record for the time being and convert it later. When the ID exists, the rendered reference entry links to the local source page for the current language: /sources/{id}/ for English and /{lang}/sources/{id}/ for translated shells. Those pages also show the reverse Cited by list.

Structure#

An entry follows a consistent five-part structure. Not every entry will use every section — drop what doesn’t apply.

1. Opening definition — one or two sentences, used by AI extraction and by the description snippet. Must stand alone.
2. Etymology / origin — where the word or concept comes from.
3. Main explanation — the body. Subdivide with ## headings as needed.
4. In Wheel of Heaven canon — how the Raëlian framework reads this.
5. In comparative tradition (if applicable) — how Mesopotamian / Egyptian / Vedic / scholarly traditions read this. Preserve irreducible differences; don’t flatten.
6. See also + References — implicit, from frontmatter.

Opening definition: stand-alone test#

The first paragraph gets pulled out as the summary in search results, AI snippets, and the entry’s data-ai-summary block. Test it by reading it without the page title. If it doesn’t make sense, rewrite it.

Good:

Elohim (Hebrew: אֱלֹהִים) is a Hebrew word traditionally translated as “God” but grammatically plural…

Bad:

They are an advanced civilization that created humanity in laboratories.

(Who are “they”? The page title doesn’t ride along into the snippet.)

Voice and register#

The wiki is scholarly, accessible, and stance-aware. Three rules:

Canon claims can be stated directly#

Raëlian doctrine, Elohim hypothesis, precessional cosmology:

The Elohim created humanity in laboratories.

Not:

Some interpretations suggest that the Elohim may have created…

Comparative claims stay hedged#

When reaching across traditions:

The Mesopotamian Atrahasis describes a similar reset narrative…

Bahá’í authoritative texts present progressive revelation in their own terms, which converge with the canon at…

Scientific claims stay measured#

Current genetic evidence is consistent with…

Mainstream archaeology dates this to…

Never “science is wrong about…” — present alongside, distinguish what science establishes from what it speculates.

For the full register/voice guide, see .claude/rules/content-editing.md in the parent repo.

Sourcing — the six-source minimum#

Every new wiki entry should reach for at least six sources, mixed across:

• 1× Raëlian canon (Tier 0)
• 1× ancient primary source (Tier 1) — the text being read
• 1× scholarly secondary (Tier 2) — academic analysis
• 1× scientific or historical (Tier 3) — genetics, archaeology, history
• 1× comparative tradition (Tier 2) — another religion’s take
• 1× critical (Tier 4) — a serious objection or skeptical reading

It’s not a strict checklist — some entries can’t reach all six. The point is to try. Entries from before 2026-04 are grandfathered.

Claim type#

Every entry declares its epistemic status in [extra]:

Pick the value that describes the main claim of the entry. See Editorial Passes for the fuller framing. The badge color on the rendered page is set automatically.

Terminology — get the core terms right#

The full terminology table lives in .claude/rules/content-editing.md.

Workflow#

cd data-content
git checkout -b feature/wiki-{slug}

# create the file
$EDITOR wiki/{slug}.md

# validate locally
python scripts/validate.py

# commit
git add wiki/{slug}.md
git commit -m "Add wiki entry: {Title}"
git push -u origin feature/wiki-{slug}

Open a PR; CI validates frontmatter, link targets, and translation coverage. After merge, bump the content/ submodule pointer in www and the same in api:

cd www.wheelofheaven.io
git submodule update --remote content
git add content
git commit -m "Update content submodule"
git push

Quality checklist before opening a PR#

• Title under 60 characters
• Description 150–160 characters
• Opening paragraph stands alone (passes the “no title” test)
• claim_type set in frontmatter
• editorial_pass set to current pass if writing fresh under current framing
• All claims have citations or links
• Key terms link to other wiki entries
• Six-source minimum where reachable
• No broken @/path.md links
• Alternative viewpoints (scholarly + critical) acknowledged
• Terminology table followed