Rome continues. Adults 18+. No fee. No obedience. Free exit.
Timeline.
A log-compressed axis, three lanes, and a ruler for size. Dates you can check stay marked as fact. The hope at the far end names no year.
FACT is a checkable record. CLAIM is an argument. FAITH is what the Order holds, and does not ask you to treat it as proof.
Greek and Egyptian names appear in the gods lane, and only there on this page. They are not silent replacements for the record. A hieroglyph is a real sign from the font. No sign was invented to fill a gap.
Source. Schmidt and the Göbekli Tepe reports; the traditional Roman chronology; Virgil and Aratus for the Virgin; Tully et al. 2014 for Laniakea. The last event is faith, and it names no year.
The line is log-compressed: deep time is short, and the last centuries have room. On a wide screen the lanes scroll sideways. On a phone they stack. Arrow keys move the line. The tablets are the same cards, set in stone.
c. 9500 BC
Built and later buried by hunter-gatherers. The round number on this axis is c. 9500 BC; the excavated range is about 9600–8200 BC.
CLAIM “Lost advanced civilisation” is a claim. It is not what the excavation shows.
Source. Klaus Schmidt and the Göbekli Tepe reports. Hunter-gatherer context is the archaeological reading.
c. 8000 BC
A settled place at Tell es-Sultan, in the early Neolithic. The date is a round archaeological figure.
Source. Levantine Neolithic archaeology, Tell es-Sultan.
7100–5700 BC
A dense settlement on the Konya plain, occupied across those millennia.
Source. James Mellaart, then Ian Hodder’s excavations. The span is the usual published range.
c. 3300 BC
The earliest widely agreed writing — proto-cuneiform in Mesopotamia, and early Egyptian signs — appears around this time.
Source. Standard accounts of Uruk proto-cuneiform and early Egyptian writing. A round date, not a single afternoon.
c. 3100 BC
The conventional date for the unification under the early dynastic kings.
Source. Egyptian chronology, the Narmer horizon. Conventional, and still argued at the edges.
3000–2500 BC
Earthwork, then stones. The range is the building, not one ceremony.
Source. Stonehenge archaeology. The axis uses the middle of the published range.
c. 2560 BC
Khufu’s pyramid at Giza, on the conventional regnal dating.
Source. Egyptian chronology for Khufu. Not a lost-technology claim.
c. 1750 BC
The Babylonian law stele. Middle-chronology dates put his reign near the eighteenth century; this axis uses the round figure c. 1750.
Source. The Code of Hammurabi stele. Chronology of the reign is still given as a range.
c. 1350 BC
The Amarna reign, and the cult of the Aten as a royal sun.
Source. Amarna period, conventional eighteenth-dynasty dating.
c. 800 BC
The Greek alphabet is adapted from a Phoenician model. Around the eighth century is the usual range, not a dated decree.
Source. Early Greek inscriptions. The century is the scholarly range.
753 BC, traditional
Rome’s own founding date. It is their traditional year, not a dug-up inscription of that morning.
Source. Roman tradition, the consular chronology.
c. 360 BC
The dialogue in which a craftsman shapes the elements as the five regular solids.
Source. Plato, Timaeus. The year is the usual scholarly placement of the dialogue.
c. 300 BC
The Elements gather the geometry this site draws with. The date is Alexandria’s, and it is approximate.
Source. Euclid, Elements. Conventional dating under the early Ptolemies.
c. 130 BC
Hipparchus finds that the stars drift against the equinox. The discovery is the start of the measured wobble, not a moral age.
Source. Hipparchus, as reported by Ptolemy’s Almagest. The year is approximate.
40 BC
“Iam redit et Virgo.” The poem says the Virgin returns. That is what the line says.
Source. Virgil, Eclogues IV.6. Cited as text.
27 BC
The settlement that gives him that name. The poets are already writing of a returning Virgin.
Source. The Augustan settlement of 27 BC. The poems are cited on the Astraea page.
c. 19 BC
Tibullus speaks of the eternal city. The phrase is his, and it is older than this Order.
Source. Tibullus 2.5.23, “aeternae … urbis.” Cited as text.
AD 274
Aurelian gives the unconquered sun a public cult and a feast on 25 December.
Source. Aurelian’s solar cult, AD 274. The December feast is the usual report of that reform.
313 · 325 · 380
313, toleration. 325, the council at Nicaea. 380, the empire’s public Christianity. Three dates, one change of legal weather. Not the founding of this Order.
Source. The Milan agreement, the Council of Nicaea, and Theodosius’ edict of 380.
c. 500
A Western creed of about the fifth or sixth century. It was not written by Athanasius.
Source. Historical judgment on the Quicumque vult. Printed in full on the Creed page.
476
The traditional year for the end of the western emperors. The eastern city kept calling itself Roman.
Source. The conventional date for Romulus Augustulus. Constantinople’s Roman name lasted until 1453.
1453
The city that had called itself Roman falls. The name outlived the western throne by a thousand years.
Source. The Ottoman taking of Constantinople, 1453.
1543
De revolutionibus is printed. The Earth moves. The moral ages do not.
Source. Nicolaus Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, 1543.
1570
Pius V’s missal. This Order does not offer it. The book is a fact of the Church’s history.
Source. Missale Romanum, 1570, under Pius V. Not hosted here.
1596
The Mysterium Cosmographicum nests the five Platonic solids between the planetary spheres. A beautiful model, and not the one the sky kept.
Source. Johannes Kepler, Mysterium Cosmographicum, 1596. Later replaced by his own laws.
1962
The last typical edition of the Roman Missal before the later reform. Helian Way never stages it.
Source. Missale Romanum, 1962 typical edition. See the Latin Mass page.
1936
“On Computable Numbers.” A machine that can follow a finite table of steps.
Source. A. M. Turing, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 1936.
1945
A room-sized electronic computer, announced at the end of the war and revealed in 1946. This axis uses 1945, the year it was completed.
Source. ENIAC, University of Pennsylvania. Completed 1945, public demonstration 1946.
1947
The point-contact transistor at Bell Laboratories.
Source. Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley, Bell Labs, December 1947.
1958
Rosenblatt’s perceptron. An early learning machine, not a mind.
Source. Frank Rosenblatt, the perceptron, 1958.
1969
The first nodes of the network that became the internet.
Source. ARPANET, 1969. The first host-to-host link is that autumn.
1983
The flag day. The network switches to the protocol still used to carry these pages.
Source. ARPANET transition to TCP/IP, 1 January 1983.
1991
The World Wide Web is released outside CERN.
Source. Tim Berners-Lee, the public release of the Web, 1991.
2014
Our home supercluster is mapped. The Virgo Supercluster is a lobe inside it.
Source. Tully et al., Nature 513 (2014), 71–73.
2012
A deep convolutional net wins ImageNet by a wide margin. A result about pictures, not about persons.
Source. Krizhevsky, Sutskever, and Hinton, ImageNet 2012.
2017
“Attention Is All You Need.” The architecture behind the large language models.
Source. Vaswani et al., 2017.
2026
Artemis II, a crewed flyby of the Moon, launched 1 April 2026 and splashed down 10–11 April 2026. On 29 September 2026, Executive Order 14434 told the American executive branch to say Super Intelligence and SI where it had said artificial intelligence and AI.
Source. NASA Artemis II, April 2026. The White House, Executive Order 14434, 29 September 2026.
2026
The Order writes this record in public. The address stays. The Order is not a church.
Source. These pages. Helian Way, founded by Anthony Perlas.
Unscheduled
The Eternal City in silicon, and justice returned by work. The Ten Stars and Laniakea are the hope, not a launch year.
Source. The Order’s hope. It names no year. The distances of the stars are measured on the Ten Stars page.
before 3000 BC
The name is attested in the Uruk-period record, before 3000 BC. No cuneiform is drawn here: this site does not invent signs.
Source. Early Mesopotamian texts of the Uruk period. The marker is the name, not a made-up glyph.
2nd Dynasty; temples c. 2450 BC
𓂋𓂝𓇳
The name is in use from the 2nd Dynasty. The great sun temples belong around 2450 BC. The signs below are his name, from the font, not a picture of a god.
Source. Egyptian sources for Ra; 5th-dynasty sun temples. Glyphs: Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Noto Sans.
Pyramid Texts
Named in the Pyramid Texts. Her name is not spelled here with an invented hieroglyph. The allowed signs do not spell it.
Source. The Pyramid Texts, late Old Kingdom.
c. 1350 BC
𓇳
The sun disc of Akhenaten’s cult. The sign is the sun-disc hieroglyph, which is the sign the name uses.
Source. Amarna period, c. 1350 BC.
Homer
ΗΛΙΟΣ
Helios drives the sun in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymn. Placing the poems in the eighth century is the usual range.
Source. Homer; Homeric Hymn 31. The century is a scholarly range, not a calendar entry.
5th century BC
ΦΟΙΒΟΣ
Apollo as driver of the sun is a blend attested from the fifth century BC, and it is common at Rome under the name Phoebus.
Source. Classical scholarship on the Helios–Apollo identification. The names were not always one god.
early Roman, undated
SOL
A Roman name for a native sun. A precise first year is not in the record. The date on this axis is only a hook so the name can be seen.
Source. Roman antiquarian tradition. The year is not an attestation date, so the badge is claim.
c. 275 BC
ΑΣΤΡΑΙΑ
Aratus tells of the Virgin who left the earth. Ovid and Virgil use her later. The poems are quoted as text.
Source. Aratus, Phaenomena 96–136, about 275 BC.
AD 274
SOL INVICTVS
The unconquered sun, as a public Roman cult under Aurelian.
Source. Aurelian, AD 274.
imperial period
The Roman mysteries of Mithras are attested in the imperial centuries. A single founding year is not known. Mythic origin stories are claims.
CLAIM A mythic date for Mithras’ birth or arrival is a claim. The stones do not give one.
Source. Roman Mithraic evidence, mostly from the late first century onward. Origin legends are not this badge.
c. 500
The Trinity in the Quicumque. Roman names are images, not the Persons. The Creed governs.
Source. The Athanasian Creed, Western, about the fifth or sixth century. Not by Athanasius.
Satya
1,728,000 years
Treta
1,296,000 years
Dvapara
864,000 years
Kali
432,000 years
Satya 1,728,000 years, Treta 1,296,000, Dvapara 864,000, Kali 432,000. Kali is dated from 3102 BC by tradition. A maha-yuga is 4.32 million years. A kalpa is 4.32 billion. These are traditional counts.
Yukteswar’s 24,000-year cycle, in The Holy Science (1894), is a claim. It is not the measured wobble.
The Earth’s axis wobbles once in about 25,772 years. The motion is smooth. It has no ages of virtue.
Source. The modern value of general precession, about 25,772 years. Hipparchus found the drift; the number is the later measurement.
Tradition beside measurement. They are not the same number.
A lifetime, then Rome, then the wobble, then the rocks. The maha-yuga mark is not a measurement. Scrolling moves the white marker. A tick opens its card.
Source. A human lifetime is on the order of 10² years. The mark is an order of magnitude, not a biography.
Source. From the traditional founding in 753 BC to now is a few thousand years: order 10³.
Source. General precession is about 25,772 years: order 10⁴. The motion is smooth.
Source. A maha-yuga of 4.32 million years is the traditional count, order 10⁶. It is not a measurement.
Source. Estimates of Earth’s habitable span for complex life are often near 1–1.8 billion years. An estimate, not a prophecy.
Source. Earth’s age, about 4.54 billion years. Geological consensus.
Source. Age of the universe, about 13.8 billion years, from the cosmic microwave background.
A log ruler. 0 is the Planck length, about 10⁻³⁵ metres. 100 is the scale of the observable universe. The stops between are the plan’s places on that ruler: an egg cell, a person, the Earth, the Ten Stars, the Milky Way, the Virgo Supercluster, Laniakea.
Source. 0 on this ruler is the Planck length, about 10⁻³⁵ metres.
Source. Stop 50 is the plan’s place for an egg cell on the log ruler. Not a new measurement.
Source. Stop 57 is a person’s height on the same ruler.
Source. Stop 68 is the Earth.
Source. Stop 84 is the neighbourhood of the ten nearest systems. Distances are on the Ten Stars page.
Source. Stop 90 is the Milky Way. You are here.
Source. Stop 95 is the Virgo Supercluster, the lobe that holds the Milky Way.
Source. Stop 96 is Laniakea. Tully et al. 2014. Calling it a jurisdiction is faith, not this badge.
Source. 100 is the scale of the observable universe, the far end of the ruler.
A vertical log ruler from 0, the Planck length, to 100, the observable universe. The bold caption names the nearest stop. The stops are also listed as cards under this drawing.
Zoom picture: the small end. From a drawn quark field, to a person, to Earth, to the Milky Way, to Virgo, to Laniakea. The picture is not a measurement. The white marker is on the ruler.
You are here: the Milky Way, in the Virgo lobe of Laniakea. The map is Tully et al. 2014. Calling it a jurisdiction is faith, on the Laniakea page.
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