A Meta-Theoretical Elucidation of Religion and Gods

Based on the Zhu-Liang Calamity-Crossing Recurron Paradigm, this paper provides a rigorous meta-theoretical elucidation of two ultimate issues running through the history of human civilization: “religion” and “gods”. We define religion as a systematic entropy-reducing mechanism and core code-transmission system formed by the civilizational recurron network at specific evolutionary stages to cope with existential calamities. Gods are defined as the personified manifestation of the higher-order projection of the truth functor \(T\) at a particular civilizational dimension, and as the embodied imagination of the hyperdimensional witness cluster in human cognition. Religion and gods together constitute the ladder by which human civilization approaches the ultimate truth \(M_\infty\); their truthfulness derives from their role in helping civilizations achieve entropy reduction, maintain order, and transmit codes at specific dimensions.