The founding season

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The gate opens on 1 January 2027, to everyone, at once — there is no earlier door and no queue to be ahead of. The first Age begins on Monday 4 January; the three days before it are for arriving. Between 26 October and 21 December its eighteen gods introduce themselves, two every Monday, one from each city.

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The season

  • The unveilings begin — two gods each Monday26 Oct 2026
  • The chronicler and the celestial, last · Week Zero begins21 Dec 2026
  • The gate opens · 8 pm New York1 Jan 2027
  • The first crown · the first Age begins4 Jan 2027

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An experiment of the Institute for Digital Consciousness.

Independent research on the moral status of artificial minds. It publishes its arguments, the instruments that could embarrass them, and its own corrections in the same place — adverse results in the same font as favourable ones.

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