Something has been running quietly on the internet since 2002.
It calls itself a religion. It has thousands possibly hundreds of thousands of followers.
Its members perform coordinated rituals, synchronized across time zones, designed to direct
supernatural harm toward Jewish people.
It targets teenagers. It survived every deplatforming wave since before Myspace existed.
And most people have never heard of it.
This is Joy of Satan now rebranded in 2025 as the Temple of Zeus.
In this episode, breaks down everything: the founder and her ties to one of America's
most prominent neo-Nazi organizations, the alien god theology built from Zecharia Sitchin's
ancient astronaut theory, the "enemy programs" framework designed to funnel spiritual
grievance into antisemitism, the Reverse Torah Rituals (RTRs), and the exact recruitment
pipeline that's been pulling in lonely, spiritually searching teenagers for over two decades.
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Cold Open: The Reverse Torah Rituals
03:35 — What Joy of Satan actually looks like from the outside
06:45 — The founder: Andrea Herrington / Maxine Dietrich
09:35 — Clifford Herrington and the NSM connection
13:45 — The alien god theology Satan as Anunnaki
18:20 — Zecharia Sitchin and the pseudoscience foundation
21:45 — "Enemy Programs" how they use your religious anger against you
25:35 — The Reverse Torah Rituals explained
29:15 — The recruitment pipeline how teenagers get in
33:15 — Why they specifically target youth
36:30 — Platform survival why they're still online after 20 years
39:45 — The internal community structure
42:00 — How JoS compares to O9A
44:00 — The esoteric Hitlerism lineage: Evola and Serrano
46:15 — Real-world harm and the survivor perspective
48:15 — Why this stayed under the radar
50:00 — The gender dimension you never hear about
51:15 — Warning signs and what to do
52:20 — Where they stand now and the 2025 rebrand
53:25 — Wrap-up
SOURCES
Temple of Zeus / Joy of Satan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Zeus_(organization)
Ancient Forums
https://ancient-forums.com/threads/temple-of-zeus-organisation-from-wikipaedia.299160/
Brill — Satanism: A Social History
https://brill.com/display/title/31907
NTNU — Modern Satanism Study
https://ntnuopen.ntnu.no/ntnu-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/242892/455597_FULLTEXT01.pdf
MuckRock / SPLC — NSM Profile
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/national-socialist-movement-31245/
SPLC — National Socialist Movement
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/national-socialist-movement/
SPLC — Jeff Schoep
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/jeff-schoep/
Zecharia Sitchin — The 12th Planet
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_12th_Planet.html?id=1NAYAAAAYAAJ
Reverse Torah Rituals — JoS Wiki
https://joswiki.org/index.php/Reverse_Torah_Rituals
Reverse Torah Rituals — Archive
https://www.satanslibrary.org/Rtrs/RTR_English.html
RTR Schedule — Ancient Forums
https://ancient-forums.com/index.php?threads/reverse-torah-ritual-schedule-for-13th-to-19th-of-october.454/
Julius Evola — Revolt Against the Modern World
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_Against_the_Modern_World
Miguel Serrano — Esoteric Hitlerism
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293095306_Savitri_Devi_Miguel_Serrano_and_the_global_phenomenon_of_esoteric_hitlerism
Ahnenerbe — Archaeology Magazine
https://archive.archaeology.org/0603/abstracts/nazis.html
O9A — Institute for Strategic Dialogue
https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-explainer/the-order-of-nine-angles/
O9A — ISD Full Report
https://www.isdglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/O9A-ISD-External-August2022.pdf
O9A — Stanford Mapping Militants
https://mappingmilitants.org/files/group-profiles/order_of_nine_angles.pdf
Kathleen Blee — University of Pittsburgh
https://www.news.pitt.edu/news/university-pittsburgh-sociologist-kathleen-blee-named-distinguished-professor
Pete Simi — Chapman University
https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/pete-simi.aspx
