Glossary

Terms used internally across the Wheel of Heaven project. For the in-content glossary that ships translated alongside the reading site, see data-content/i18n/glossary.json.

Project terms#

Bifrost

The Zola theme that powers www.wheelofheaven.world. Named after the rainbow bridge in Norse mythology. Lives at github.com/wheelofheaven/bifrost. See Bifrost Theme.

Bifrost stripe

The accent gradient (yellow → pink → lavender → mauve → blue → cyan → teal → mint → green) used as the visual signature of the project. Lives in bifrost/sass/abstracts/_colors.scss.

Canon

Raëlian source texts. Tier 0 in the source program. Read the comparative material through the canon, not as competing alternatives. See .claude/rules/content-editing.md.

Claim type

The epistemic status of a page’s main claim — direct, framework, inferred, or speculative. Required on new entries. See the Frontmatter Reference.

Cinematics

Looping background videos and motion intros. Source in raw-media/, processed in data-cinematics/, served from assets.wheelofheaven.world.

Editorial pass

A YYYY-MM date code marking the campaign under which an entry was last fundamentally rewritten. Lets future-readers tell whether an entry reflects the project’s current framing.

Elohim

In Wheel of Heaven framing: a small advanced human civilization that designed life on Earth. In Hebrew: plural noun translated as “those who came from the sky.” Always capitalized; always plural (“the Elohim were…”).

Newsroom Dispatch

Short, event-anchored News pieces. 300–800 words. Built around an event, decays over time. Distinct from Articles (idea-driven, evergreen).

OG card

The Open Graph image rendered per page for social sharing. 1200×630 JPEG. Generated by the data-images/og/ pipeline (Playwright + Jinja).

Precessional age

~2,160-year period in the precession of the equinoxes cycle. The twelve ages structure the Timeline section of the site.

RefId

Canonical reference ID for library content. Format {BOOK_CODE}-{chapter}:{paragraph} (e.g. TBWTT-1:5). See Library Book Format.

Source tier

Authority classification (Tier 0–4) applied to every resource. Tier 0 is Raëlian canon; Tiers 1–4 are read in dialogue with it. See .claude/plans/strategy-source-program.md.

Stack terms#

docs-theme

The Zola theme that powers this site (docs.wheelofheaven.world). Lives at themes/docs-theme/ within docs.wheelofheaven.world. Imports Bifrost’s design tokens via SCSS so palette/typography stay in sync.

mise

Task runner and tool version manager — pins Zola, Python, Node at the right versions per project. Equivalent of asdf or rtx.

Tera

The Jinja-like template language Zola uses. Files end in .html with {% %} and {{ }} syntax.

Zola

The Rust-based static site generator that builds every site in the project. https://www.getzola.org.