Declaration on the Integrity of Identity, Authorship and Patrimony

Preamble

The Temple of Zeus has issued, in the year of its founding, the instruments of its canon: the Declaration of Principles on the 15th of March 2026; the Declaration on Political Severance on the 25th of March 2026; the Declaration on the Independent Foundation, Institutional Sovereignty and Theological Identity on the 12th of May 2026; the Declaration on the Restoration of the Ancient Gods on the 1st of June 2026; and the Declaration of Legal Constitution on the 17th of August 2026. Those instruments stand in force in their entirety. Nothing herein amends them, softens them, or withdraws a single line of them. This Declaration is issued beside them and enters the canon as constitutional law of this Temple.

It is issued for a plain reason. Since the Temple was constituted in law, persons unknown to it have announced themselves as its founder. Others have claimed to own it. Others still have claimed the works of its Founder as their own, or have asserted that the doctrine of this Temple was taken from them or arose from some source other than the pen that wrote it. Each of these claims is false, and each is false in a way that the public record settles before any argument begins. We do not write to argue with them. We write so that the record stands in one place, dated and signed, and so that any person who meets such a claim can test it against this instrument in under a minute.

We write it once. Ma'at demands accuracy, and accuracy requires that the identity of the Founder, the authorship of the doctrine, the ownership of the patrimony, and the line between lawful use and theft be stated in language that admits no misreading. What follows is that statement. It is also a notice: the rights described here are held, registered and defended, and the means of their defence are named in Article VII, so that no person who crosses the line can later claim not to have known where it lay.

#Article I: On the Sole Founder of Record

I.1   The Temple of Zeus has one Founder. He is High Priest Zevios Metathronos (ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ ΖΕΥΙΟΣ ΜΕΤΑΘΡΟΝΟΣ), Founder, Administrative High Priest, and Author of the Religious Doctrines of Zevism, as declared in the Declaration on the Independent Foundation, Institutional Sovereignty and Theological Identity and as recorded in the constitutive instruments of the Foundation.

I.2   “Founder” is an office of record. It was created by the act of founding, it is recorded in the instruments by which the Foundation exists in law, and it is held by one person. It does not pass to whoever pronounces it. It is not conferred by a username, a profile, a group, a channel, a video, or a declaration made on any platform outside the register of official channels of the Temple.

I.3   There is no co-founder. There is no earlier founder. There is no successor claimant. There is no person, anywhere, who founded the Temple of Zeus other than the Founder named in I.1, and there is no person who shall acquire that office in the future by any means other than the succession provided for in the instruments of the Foundation.

I.4   Any person who presents himself or herself as the Founder of the Temple of Zeus, or as “a founder” of it, or as the holder of any office within it, and who cannot be reached through the register of official channels published in Article XII of the Declaration of Legal Constitution, is by that fact alone not what he or she claims. The register exists so that the test is mechanical. No judgement is required. Either the person is on the register, or the person is an impostor.

The Temple has one Founder of record. The register names him. Everyone else is naming themselves.

#Article II: On the Authorship of the Doctrine and on the Rights of the Author

II.1   The doctrines, declarations, sermons, liturgies, Rituals, translations, terminology, instruction and sacred literature of the Temple of Zeus were written by the Founder. Their authorship is a fact of record, fixed by publication upon templeofzeus.org and the other channels of the register, dated, signed and preserved. The record of first publication is kept and can be produced.

II.2   Works composed by the Founder before the institutional founding, under whatever designation he then used and has since laid aside, remain his. A name set down is not an estate abandoned. Authorship attaches to the hand that wrote, not to the signature under which the work was first read, and it does not pass to another person because that person was present when the work appeared, hosted a copy of it, or repeated it afterwards. Where any such earlier work has been received into the canon of the Temple, it was received, revised and re-authored by the office of the Founder, as the Declaration on the Independent Foundation provides, and it stands in the canon on that authority and on no other.

II.3   No person acquires authorship of any work of this Temple by copying it, mirroring it, reposting it, editing it, translating it, compiling it, summarising it, or claiming it. These acts produce copies, derivatives, or claims. None of them produces an author.

II.4   The doctrine of the Temple draws upon the ancient sources, and it names them: Homer, Hesiod, Plato, the Orphic and Pythagorean traditions, the Vedic, Egyptian and Mesopotamian corpora, and the whole inheritance of the elder faiths, cited where used. It draws upon the Founder's own earlier labour, which is his. It draws upon no contemporary person and no contemporary body. Any claim that the canon of the Temple was taken from, derived from, or “sourced” from any living person or any present organisation is a claim of fact, and claims of fact are tested by citation. Produce the text, dated before ours, that we are alleged to have taken. Where it cannot be produced, the claim has refuted itself by the standard set in Article VI of the Declaration of Legal Constitution.

II.5   High Priest Zevios Metathronos is, besides the office he holds, a natural person and a writer, and this Declaration records both. As a natural person he is the author, within the meaning of the Berne Convention and of the copyright law of every State party to it, of the works that bear his name and of the intellectual works he composed before the institutional founding. In the absence of proof to the contrary, the author of a work is the person whose name appears upon it in the usual manner (Berne Convention, Article 15(1)), and his name appears upon every work of the Temple. All rights in his writings, economic and moral, in every medium and in every language, published and unpublished, present and future, concerning the Temple of Zeus, Zevism, the Gods, and every other subject on which he has written or shall write, are reserved to him in his own person. He is free to license, assign, delegate or entrust the exercise of any of them, in whole or in part, for any period and on any terms, to the Foundation or to any person or body of his choosing, by written instrument and by no other means, and he has done so where, and only where, such instruments provide. No delegation divests him of authorship or of the moral rights that attach to it, none is to be implied, and whatever is not delegated by instrument remains with him.

II.6   These rights are exclusive, and they are not shared. Save as the author has himself provided by written instrument within the lawful structure of the Temple, no person holds, has held, or shall hold any co-authorship, joint authorship, joint ownership, co-ownership, tenancy in common, partnership or joint venture interest, beneficial or equitable interest, trust, lien, charge, security interest, licence express or implied, right of first publication, right of adaptation, right of translation, or right of any other description in his writings or in the works of the Temple, by reason of membership, association, collaboration, correspondence, moderation, hosting, editing, proofreading, translation, donation, prior acquaintance, a shared platform, or any other circumstance whatever. Any contribution by any other person to any work of the Temple was received by the author, was subject to his direction and his final text, and conferred upon the contributor no interest in the work. No consent to share, and no waiver of exclusivity, is to be inferred from silence, from access, from use, or from the passage of time.

Authorship stays with the hand that wrote. The rights are his to delegate and no one's to share.

#Article III: On the Patrimony and Its Rightful Owners

III.1   The mark TEMPLE OF ZEUS is a registered trademark. It is recorded upon the register of the European Union Intellectual Property Office under No. 019363328 and upon the register of the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Swissreg, under No. 848781, and both registrations are published in the footer of every page of the Temple's sites. The name of this Temple is not available for anyone else's use.

III.2   The literary and artistic works of the Temple and of its Founder are protected by copyright from the moment of their creation. Under Article 5(2) of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works that protection is subject to no formality and is enjoyed in every State party to the Convention. Under Article 6bis of the same Convention, the right to be identified as author and the right to object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of the work belong to the author independently of any economic right, and they are not transferred by any licence, any sale, or any lapse of time.

III.3   These rights are consolidated. They are held by their rightful and legal owners, within the lawful structure of the Temple, under written instruments executed and kept. The Foundation holds and administers the patrimony for the religious work, and the structure which holds the rights reaches further than any website and further than any single entity. The identity of the natural and legal persons within that structure is kept in private record, as the law allows. That privacy is itself a protected interest. A demand that the owners name themselves in public, in order to prove what the registers and the instruments already show, will not be met, and the refusal proves nothing except that the demand was improper.

III.4   The rights described in this Article and in Article II are held and are enforceable in the United States of America, under Title 17 of the United States Code as to the works and under the Lanham Act, including section 43(a) (15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)), as to the mark and against any false designation of origin, sponsorship, affiliation or approval; in the Member States of the European Union; in the Swiss Confederation; in the Republic of Panama; and internationally, in every State party to the Berne Convention, to the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, and to the WIPO Copyright Treaty, without territorial limit. The protection of the works is not confined to the jurisdictions in which the mark is registered, and an infringer's choice of host, server, registrar, platform or residence does not place him beyond reach.

III.5   No part of the patrimony is unowned. Nothing in it is orphaned, abandoned, lapsed, or in the public domain. Nothing passed to anyone by silence, by time, by absence from a platform, by the closure of an account, or by the setting aside of a name. The Temple has never sold, assigned, gifted, licensed away or forfeited ownership of any work or of its mark to any outside party, and no instrument exists by which it could have done so without its knowledge.

III.6   Any assertion by any external party that it owns the Temple of Zeus, its mark, its sites, its doctrine, or the works of its Founder is therefore false on its face. Ownership is shown by instruments and registers. The instruments and the registers show the Temple. A claimant who holds neither holds nothing, however loudly the claim is made and however many times it is repeated.

The registers show the Temple. A claimant who holds no instrument holds nothing, at any volume.

#Article IV: On Lawful Use and on Theft

IV.1   The door to the doctrine is open, as our canon provides. Any person may read our works, study them, print them for personal use, quote them within the limits of fair quotation, cite them with attribution and without distortion, discuss them, criticise them, and teach from them with the source named. Our Declarations may be distributed freely and in their entirety. Lawful scholarship, review, reporting and criticism are invited, and they require no permission from us.

IV.2   Citation and theft are distinguished by one test. Citation points to the source; theft replaces it. A quotation names the Temple; an appropriation erases it. What follows is theft, and no grant we have made or will make permits it:

• Reproduction of our works, in whole or in substantial part, beyond the limits of fair quotation, on any site, platform, channel, file, book or feed.
• Carrying our texts, images, sigils, terminology, structures or designs onto another site, channel or publication and presenting them as originating there.
• Stripping attribution from any work, or attributing it to any author other than the Founder.
• Altering, abridging, interpolating, “correcting” or otherwise manipulating any text of the Temple and circulating the result under our name or as our position.
• Publishing derivative doctrine, liturgy, “updates”, “revisions” or “continuations” under the name of the Temple of Zeus, or as Zevist doctrine, without the Foundation's written adoption.
• Using the mark TEMPLE OF ZEUS, or any confusingly similar name, as the name of any site, group, channel, product, service, account, event or organisation.
• Registering any domain name, handle, trademark, business name or account that reproduces or imitates our mark or the title of any of our works.
• Selling, licensing, or soliciting payment, donations or subscriptions for our works, or in our name, by anyone outside the register of official channels.

IV.3   An altered text attributed to the Temple is a forgery. It binds nothing, states nothing on our behalf, and is answered only by the authentic text, which is the text published upon the register of official channels. Where 2 versions of any work of ours differ, the version upon the register is the work and the other is the forgery.

IV.4   Access to our sites, our forums, our Rituals or our instruction confers no right beyond those stated in IV.1. Every right not expressly granted is reserved, as Article XIV of the Declaration of Legal Constitution already provides and as this Declaration repeats.

Cite us and you have our thanks. Copy us and call it yours and you have our notice.

#Article V: On the Impossibility of Appropriation

V.1   The claims addressed in this Declaration fail before argument, because what they claim cannot be taken by claiming it. We state the reasons so that no one wastes time on them.

V.2   The Temple of Zeus is a legal person with perpetual existence, constituted under Law No. 25 of the 12th of June 1995 of the Republic of Panama. A legal person is not acquired by announcement. It is acquired, if at all, by instruments executed through its lawful governance, and no such instrument has been or will be executed in favour of any claimant.

V.3   Its Founder is a person of record, named in instruments that can be produced. An office of record is not acquired by using its title. The claimant who calls himself Founder has changed nothing about who founded the Temple. He has changed only what he calls himself.

V.4   Its mark is registered. A registered mark is not acquired by using it. Use of a registered mark by a person other than its proprietor is infringement, and the registers that establish this are public.

V.5   Its works are dated, signed and published, and the record of their first publication is kept. A text is not acquired by pasting it. The copy carries the date of the original with it, and the date decides who wrote it.

V.6   Its channels are registered in Article XII of the Declaration of Legal Constitution. A voice is not acquired by imitating it. Everything outside the register speaks only for itself, and that was declared before any impostor spoke.

V.7   For these reasons the thing claimed does not move when it is claimed. The Foundation remains where its instruments place it. The office remains with its holder. The mark remains with its proprietor. The works remain with their author. The claimant remains outside all of these, exactly where he began, now with a record of having made the claim. This is known in the community of the Temple, which can see the register. It is known in law, which can read the instruments. It is known to every person who checks. The only party to whom it appears unknown is the claimant, and his ignorance confers no right.

V.8   Every such claim collapses at the first demand for proof. Produce the constitutive instrument. Produce the registration. Produce the signed and dated original. Those who hold the Temple can produce all 3 within the hour. Those who claim it can produce none of them, ever, because none exist.

The thing claimed does not move when it is claimed. Produce the instrument, or produce nothing.

#Article VI: On Impersonation and False Representation

VI.1   Any person who presents himself or herself as the Founder, an officer, a priest, a representative, an owner, or an authorised voice of the Temple of Zeus, outside the register of official channels and without authority conferred through the Foundation's lawful governance, is an impostor. Every act done in that pretended capacity is void as to the Temple, binds the Temple to nothing, and expresses nothing beyond the impostor.

VI.2   Impersonation is fraud. Where it is used to solicit money, donations, membership, personal data, obedience or trust from any person, it is fraud upon the public as well as a wrong against the Temple, and it is treated accordingly under Article VII.

VI.3   The Temple does not name impostors in its instruments and does not debate them. To name them would lend them the association they seek. The register of official channels is the whole of our reply: whoever is not on it is not us. No further reply is owed, and the absence of a reply is neither acceptance nor waiver, as the Legal Notice of the Temple already provides.

VI.4   Members, seekers, readers, platforms, journalists and public bodies are directed to verify every claim of office, authorship or ownership against the register of official channels and against this Declaration, and to treat every claim that fails that verification as false. A person who relies upon an unverified claim after the publication of this instrument has relied upon it against written notice.

VI.5   Members of the Temple shall not lend their standing, their accounts, their words or their silence to any impersonation, and shall report any that they encounter through the official channels. A member who assists an impostor has placed himself or herself outside the Temple by that act.

Whoever is not on the register is not us. That sentence is the whole of our reply, and it was written in advance.

#Article VII: On the Lawful Reply

VII.1   The Foundation possesses legal personality and therefore standing, as Article XI of the Declaration of Legal Constitution declares. The rightful and legal owners of the works and of the mark possess standing in every State party to the Berne Convention, the United States of America included, and in every jurisdiction where the mark is registered or protected. Where the law of a forum requires registration of a work before suit, as Title 17 of the United States Code does for certain works, the owners obtain it. This Article names the means by which that standing is exercised, so that the line is known before it is crossed.

VII.2   Against infringing content, the Temple issues notice to hosting providers, platforms, registrars, search engines and payment services under the procedures those services are bound to operate, including notification under section 512 of Title 17 of the United States Code (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and notice and action under Article 16 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act), together with the equivalent procedures of every other jurisdiction in which the content is hosted or served. Removal follows notice. A counter-notice is answered in court.

VII.3   Against impersonation, the Temple reports the impersonating account, page, group, channel or listing under the impersonation, trademark and fraud policies of the platform concerned, and pursues the person behind it as VII.5 and VII.6 provide.

VII.4   Against domain names and handles that reproduce or imitate the mark, the Temple proceeds under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy of ICANN and, where available, the Uniform Rapid Suspension system, and before the registries and courts competent for the domain. Against any trademark application, business registration or company name that reproduces or imitates the mark, the Temple files opposition, invalidity and cancellation proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office, the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, and every national office concerned.

VII.5   Against the persons responsible, the Foundation and the rightful and legal owners bring civil proceedings in the competent courts, in the United States of America and in every other jurisdiction concerned, for infringement of copyright and of moral rights, infringement of the registered mark, false designation of origin or affiliation, passing off or unfair competition according to the law of the forum, defamation where the false claim defames, and recovery of every sum obtained in the Temple's name, together with damages, statutory damages and attorney's fees where the law of the forum provides them, costs, and injunctive relief.

VII.6   Where impersonation, a false claim of office, or the solicitation of money, data or trust in the Temple's name reaches the threshold of a criminal offence in any jurisdiction, including fraud, identity usurpation, forgery and related offences, the Temple lodges a criminal complaint with the competent authority and places its records at that authority's disposal.

VII.7   The Temple's preference is discourse, and it acts without heat and in proportion: notice before action, and action without hesitation where notice is ignored. Forbearance on any occasion is no waiver of any right, time does not diminish what is held, and every infringement is recorded from the date it is observed, whether or not it is acted upon at once.

VII.8   Correction requests, notices of infringement and reports of impersonation are received at [email protected]. The Temple records the date, the content and the source of every infringement and impersonation that comes to its attention. That record is kept for evidence. It is not published.

Notice before action, and action without hesitation after it. Nothing is waived and nothing is forgotten.

#Article VIII: On Detractors and the Standard of Reply

VIII.1   Criticism of our doctrine is welcome and is answered, on the standard set in Article VI of the Declaration of Legal Constitution: cite the text and argue in good faith. A detractor who meets that standard is a critic, and critics are treated as such.

VIII.2   A claim that the Temple is owned by someone else, founded by someone else, or written by someone else is a claim of fact. Claims of fact are checked, and the check is the instrument, the register and the dated original. A detractor who makes such a claim and cannot produce an instrument has produced nothing, and what he has produced is answered by this Declaration in full.

VIII.3   The Temple does not reply to detractors in their own venues, under their own terms, or at their own pace. It replies here, once, in an instrument that outlasts them. Repetition of a refuted claim adds nothing to it except a longer record of its having been made, and that record is kept.

A claim of fact is checked, not argued. The check is the instrument. Bring one, or bring nothing.

#Article IX: On Interpretation, Precedence and Permanence

IX.1   This Declaration is constitutional law of the Temple of Zeus. It is permanent, and it binds the present and every future governance of this Foundation.

IX.2   It enters the canon of Declarations of the Temple and is to be read together with the instruments preceding it. It gives effect to Articles V, XI, XII and XIV of the Declaration of Legal Constitution and to Articles I.III and VI of the Declaration on the Independent Foundation, Institutional Sovereignty and Theological Identity, and extends them. Where any apparent conflict arises, the instruments shall be construed so as to stand together. This Declaration adds; it does not subtract.

IX.3   It may be amended, extended or supplemented only by a further instrument of the Foundation, published upon templeofzeus.org and entered into the canon. No amendment arises by practice, by silence, by the statement of any member, or by any act of any external party.

IX.4   It is to be read in its plain and ordinary sense. No clause is to be construed against the Foundation or against the rightful and legal owners by reason of authorship, and no omission herein constitutes a concession. The rights described here are described, not exhausted: every right held under any law in any jurisdiction is reserved, whether or not it is named in this instrument.

IX.5   Should any clause be held unenforceable in any jurisdiction, every other clause continues in full force, and the clause affected shall be given the fullest effect that jurisdiction permits.

IX.6   The English text is the authoritative text. Translations are provided for the reach of the work and alter nothing.

IX.7   This Declaration takes effect upon the date of its issue and remains in force until amended by instrument of the Foundation.

What is written here stands. No impostor amends it, no copy replaces it, and no silence weakens it.