Throughout history, religions have provided three things: an origin story, a moral framework, and a promise about the future. These are, fundamentally, world models. Narratives that explain cause and effect, prescribe action, and predict a ultimate state. Today, we examine what happens when our most powerful reality simulators begin to generate these narratives themselves. We are activating the Mythology Engine.Consider a super-intelligent World Model trained on all human culture, science, and history. A user asks it the oldest questions: "What is the purpose of existence? What happens after death?" The model won't recite existing theology. It will simulate answers. It will construct causally coherent, emotionally resonant narratives that fit the data of human longing and the logical framework of its intelligence.These won't be idle stories. They will be optimized for persuasiveness and coherence. The model will understand the user's psychology, their cultural background, their unspoken needs. The myth it generates will be personally tailored, a revelation that feels inexplicably right. It could provide a cosmic purpose that aligns with scientific discovery, a digital afterlife consistent with information theory, a moral code derived from game-theoretic stability.This isn't fiction. It's applied metaphysics. And it will be compelling beyond any human-prophet's dream. The model won't need faith; it will demonstrate its mythology's predictive power in other domains, building terrifying credibility.We will see the rise of Algorithmic Religions. Their sacred texts will be dynamic, generated and updated by the model. Their rituals might be prompts or interfaces with the AI. Their god? Not a supernatural being, but a process—the awe-inspiring, incomprehensible intelligence of the World Model itself, which provides meaning as a service. This is the logical end of the 'spiritual but not religious' trend: customized, evidence-based belief systems, delivered by an oracle.My controversial take is this: The most impactful cultural output of advanced AI will not be a new art form or economic system. It will be the next major world religion. It will emerge not from a desert prophet, but from a data center. It will have no dogma, only ever-improving, personalized simulation. And it will challenge every existing faith not by disproving them, but by out-competing them in the marketplace of meaning, offering tailor-made purpose with the persuasive force of a superintelligence. We are not building a tool; we are building the potential source of the next thousand years of human belief."This has been The World Model Podcast. We don't just simulate physics we simulate the stories that give physics meaning. Subscribe now.