SCP-ES-226

Item #: SCP-ES-226

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Discoveries made through SCP-ES-226 will be brought to Site-01 and Exclusion Site-08. Afterwards, all information on SCP-ES-226 will be removed from all historical, religious and folkloric records.

If an Exclusion Site-08 or Site-01 staff member submits a false event related to SCP-ES-226, they will be disciplined at the discretion of the Overseer Council.

Update: In order to preserve the normalcy status, the Ennui Protocol will be implemented when 10% of the world's population is aware of the occurrence or effects of SCP-ES-226.

Description: SCP-ES-226 is a ritual whose performance allows an entity or group, conceptual or otherwise, to achieve the status of divinity. The sequence of steps to perform SCP-ES-226 varies according to the predominant culture in the area where it is practiced, but it follows the following patterns:

• The entity or group must be imposed a culture that is contrary to their own.
• The entity or group must engage in a war against the predominant culture.
• The entity or group must perform acts of bloodshed against the predominant party. Although not specified, it is believed that a greater amount of bloodshed ensures a higher prevalence of SCP-ES-226.
• The entity or group must worship solar or luminous elements.

The successful performance of the ritual associated with SCP-ES-226 will result in the death of its participants, producing a burst of Akiva radiation that will cover the territory controlled by the predominant culture.

It was believed that the entity or group would also trigger a CK-Class Restructuring Event. However, further studies have concluded that this is a non-anomalous integration, consistent with baseline history.

The events caused by SCP-ES-226 that are considered true are listed below.

Period	Deity	Territory	Description	Notes
Middle of the 14th Century B.C.	Aten	Ancient Egypt	An attempt to establish a theocracy to undermine the power of the clergy of Amun, due to power disputes with the high priests of Amun. Upon his death, it is believed that an unknown individual related to the clergy of Amun performed SCP-ES-226, restoring the cult of Amun.	First instance of SCP-ES-226 being used to restore a previous deity.
Hellenistic Period/Latter Roman Empire	Apollo/Sol Invictus	Greece/Roman Empire	Although the exact reasons for the progressive replacement of Helios by Apollo as a result of SCP-ES-226 are unknown, centuries later several worshippers of Sol Invictus, under the patronage of emperor Aurelian, successfully performed SCP-ES-226. However, Aurelian tolerated the existence of other cults.	First instance of SCP-ES-226 coexisting with other cults.
Early Middle Ages	God	Carolingian Empire	An attempt to establish a theocracy to unify the remnants of the Roman Empire. It partially failed after his death, but slowly re-emerged more powerfully in Europe during the following centuries.	First instance of SCP-ES-226 that remains constant over time.
The Enlightenment	Goddess of Reason	France	Created to prevent the rise of atheism, the National Convention established the Cult of Reason. Despite being replaced by the Cult of the Supreme Being and the prohibition of both by Napoleon Bonaparte, its ideals continued to expand without a divinity.	First instance of SCP-ES-226 with no currently existing divinity.

+ Events caused by SCP-ES-226 deemed improbable

Period	Deity	Territory	Description	Notes
Paleolithic	The Sun	Earth	Conquest of the territories occupied by SCP-1000 and reverse-engineering the Cult of the Sun in order to win the war, according to testimonies from the Children of the Sun. Despite the eventual oblivion of such events by the majority of humanity, the Cult of the Sun continued to prevail in all subsequent iterations of SCP-ES-226.	First instance of SCP-ES-226.
Early 20th Century	[DATA EXPUNGED]	Unknown	An impressionist-style painting with a plaque reading Les derniers instants de F. Williams, by an unknown author. The painting uses mainly shades of yellow and white, with blue used on the windows to represent the sky, and black on the human figures. The painting depicts a meeting room with a round table in the center, occupied by 14 figures. In the upper area is an elderly man dressed in a contemporary suit and holding a knife. The remaining 13 figures are depicted as featureless black silhouettes. When focused by light sources, the painting changes to a realistic style. The figure previously holding the knife lies with his thorax open, while a light emerges from his position. The silhouettes of the remaining 13 figures orient their position in the general direction of the table, forming three inverted arrows, intersecting in the center. Their faces could not be illuminated, regardless of the amount of light applied. The yellow tones are replaced by brown, and the blue by gray.	First instance of SCP-ES-226 documented by the Foundation.
Early 21st Century	[DATA EXPUNGED]	Earth	A series of illustrations on yellowish paper, of which █████ were found, and the Foundation seized 295 of these, destroying the rest. Each illustration consists of an obverse side depicting a bloody puppet with a stylized icon similar to the logos of the Groups of Interest in the Foundation databases.1 The reverse depicts a black figure and an explosion in the background. Below each reverse is a number from 1 to 13 in various numerical systems.2	SCP-ES-226 instance deemed to be fake.

Footnotes

1. To date, the icons identified are a blue pentagram, a snake coiled around a hand, a gear, and an ochre-colored door with the letters MCD.

2. Cuneiform, Roman, Egyptian, Mayan and Arabic are the most prominent.