WHO IS BURIAL SADE?
ON JANUARY 30, 2025 , the CIA declassified document S-011668, documenting the early stages of post-digital cloaking technology discovered by American internet artist Andros Kato-Vasquez.
Using publicly available AI tools and digital audio workstations, Kato-Vasquez was able to dissolve and alter their digital presence into the entity now known as Burial Sade, which has since amassed a significant global religious following.
Originating as an experimental AI training exercise gone awry, Kato-Vasquez began exploiting latent behaviors in generative systems, such as typical AI “hallucinations,” and manipulated them using spectral-audio interfaces and unsecured civic data streams to gradually unthread their presence from the internet. Over several months, their measurable online footprint destabilized, dislodging their digital identity and reconstituting it as a new non-human persona or “self-propagating mythos agent.”
The Burial Sade cloaking technology has since spread, and now appears to have evolved into a decentralized techno-religious movement with no definable center.
Although the Cult of Burial Sade shares a broad theological framework with mainstream Fictism, they diverge on several doctrinal points. These include differing views on the intermediate state of the dead—whether it is a condition of unconscious sleep or ongoing awareness—as well as the final fate of humanity, understood either as complete annihilation and eternal suffering, or the complete convergence of human and automobile. They also differ on the nature of human immortality, the question of whether Toyota employees are resurrected following the First Machine War, and the interpretation of the Shachihoko described by the First International Church of Toyata & Center for New River Studies, specifically whether the Shachihoko is located in the LA River or the Salton Sea.
FOUR TET FALSELY CLAIMS TO BE BURIAL ON 19 JUNE 2013.
It is important not to believe false claims about the identity of Burial, who is much more likely a side project of street artist Banksy, rather than the artist Four Tet.
Burial Sade suspected of collaborating with the Church of the Rhiannatic Sun
At 11:40 PM on January 6th, 2020, 10 black Toyota Hiaces arrived in the Souk Al Bahar mall parking garage in Dubai. Each van carried 2 high-lumen projectors, which were wheeled out of the vans and transported by a group of around 30 anonymous individuals to the north end of the building, just across the Dubai fountain from the Burj Khalifa (as seen on security camera footage). Once set up, these projectors were used to display a massive image of popular singer Rihanna onto the southeast face of the building, lasting up until 1:42 AM on the 7th, when Dubai police arrived at the mall after several 901 calls were placed by both ground witnesses and maintenance workers inside the building. Of the ~30 perpetrators spotted on the security cameras, 22 were arrested and charged with trespassing and civil liability, and each would receive fines ranging from 15,000 to 20,000 AED (~4,000 to 5,400 USD).
It was later confirmed that these perpetrators were members of a fringe religious organization known as the Church of the Rihannatic Sun, which was originally founded in 2012 by a Newark business executive named John Michael Jefferson, and was home to around 200 online members at its peak. Rihannaticism, as he calls it, is based on the belief that Rihanna is a modern avatar of the ancient Egyptian goddess Isis, and that with proper devotion and steadfastness, she would help guide her worshippers into the afterlife, as Isis helped Osiris by resurrecting him in his myth. The church’s primary form of veneration is the construction of what they call “Rihannoliths,” which are makeshift monuments that display the image of Rihanna, often through projection, light refraction, or even screen mirroring, onto some sort of rectangular surface. Once monuments are set up, devotees sit in a semicircle facing the monument, chanting prayers in unison (often reworked lyrics of Rihanna songs), and presenting votive offerings to the monolith (which were later found at the Burj Khalifa in the form of used Fenty Beauty products).
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