New Religious Movement - Discordianism

By Kallista

  • Start of Discordianism - 1963

    founded after the 1963 publication of its "holy book", Principia Discordia.

  • Earliest documents charting the development of Discordianism

    written by Kerry Thornley, One of the earliest documents charting the development of Discordianism.

  • A concept / practice in Discordianism

    A concept that was developed by Kerry Thornley and Robert Anton Wilson in 1968. Its name was given by Wilson and Robert Shea.
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    The most influential Discordian works - The Illuminatus! Trilogy

    It was a series of three novels written purportedly between 1969 and 1971 by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. It was an attempt to build a myth around Discordianism

  • five-fingered hand of Eris Symbol

    Five-fingered hand of Eris accepted by Unicode in 2016, is one of several symbols used in Discordianism. Initially, it was the planetary symbol, designed by Discordian Denis Moskowitz. It was rotated 90 degrees and had a cross-bar added to resemble two lunate epsilons. It was accepted by Unicode in 2016. Unicode: international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across other programs.