Principia Discordia is the founding scripture of Discordianism, written under the pen names Malaclypse the Younger, Greg Hill, and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, Kerry Thornley, and first circulated in the 1960s before later commercial printings including this Loompanics edition. As the movement's own text it is correctly cited here as a primary source, and it is explicitly a parody scripture, a work of satirical religious invention that its own authors never presented as a claim about the world, which is the frame this atlas cites it under. Its practical strength for citation is that the authors released it under an explicit anti-copyright Kopyleft notice, so quoting it directly carries none of the legal caution that applies to a closed, actively copyrighted modern scripture such as Eckankar's or Falun Gong's texts.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
Principia Discordia was self-published and later issued through Loompanics; Discordianism's own primary founding text rather than independent scholarship about it, hence the tradition's-own-account tier. NotesThe founding text of Discordianism; a parody scripture, cited as such. Merged from Source 4114: Released with an explicit anti-copyright ("Kopyleft") notice by its authors; quotation here is both legally unrestricted and not subject to the modern-copyrighted-scripture caution that applies to Eckankar or Falun Gong texts.
Citation
AuthorMalaclypse the Younger (Greg Hill) and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (Kerry Thornley)
PublisherLoompanics (later editions)
Publication Year1965
Source TypeBook (primary)
Claims Backed By This Source (33 claims)
This source backs 33 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Doctrines, 14 claims: 12 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
- Practices, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 2 claims: 2 general references.
- Religions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Scriptures & Texts, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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