Entry ID: 2522.05.30.134

Dig Site ID: 34.052234; -118.243685

Common Name: Angel City

AOF: “Fame Walk,” Hollywoodland

General Notes and Observations

Status: Day 6

LOD: Raw, First Pass

General update: It would appear that the excavation team has uncovered the totality of what, for all intents and purposes, appears to have been known as FAME Walk or Walk of Fame (See below for an updated glossary of terms). From last count, the team has cataloged a staggering 2,700 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars that appear to have been embedded at various times into a sort of WALKWAY.

Our early assessment is just that: early. But from what we have been able to piece together so far, our working theory is this. Fame was the religion of the people. Those who achieved a certain level of this Fame were granted a sort of deification—worship by the masses—and their ascension was marked by the addition of their name and the mark of their ORDER into one of these “Star Monuments,” which where then visited by worshipers who made the trip to Hollywoodland—alternate spelling of “Holy?”—a sort of pilgrimage of the faithful.(1)

From our initial research, it would appear that the Fame Walk religion had it’s “heyday” for the 100 years prior to the Bezos-Musk war of 2029.(2)

A complete registry of the “deities” worshiped by the Fame Cult will be provided upon the completion of this dig, but I have included a list of some of the names below to provide some context. From the names that we have been able to connect to existing records, some commonalities have emerged. Notably, they seem to be based largely on gender.

Female deities appear to largely consist of young, wealthy, physically attractive entertainers.(3) See:

Aniston, Jennifer

Child, Destinys

Johansson, Scarlet

Kidman, Nicole

Male deities appear conversely to have very little to do with physical attractiveness and, from what we have been able to connect to known records, appear to achieve deification based on ability to generate laughter or revenue. See:

Coleman, Dabney

Ferrel, Will

Griffin, Merv

Hanks, Tom

More study is of course necessary to determine if these assumptions are in fact real or perceived.(4)

Lastly, a personal note: As of now, there is still no direct connection to the “death cult” that originally facilitated the dig. While I have still been unable to connect them to the Fame Cults directly, my thesis objective remains at the forefront of my work. In order to prevent another societal decline like that experienced in the 21st Century—a Near-Extinction-level event—I continue to work under the assumption that there is a connection to be found. This work has, of course, taken on a new sense of urgency upon the news that small bands of adherents are re-emerging. If I and my work have anything to do with it, we will find a way to stop the Neo-Kardashians from gaining a foothold.

We cannot ignore the warnings of our ancestors; We must fight against this with all we have.

-N. West-Krazinski

Footnotes

1. Those familiar with the Nguyen dig of 2507 will no doubt make the immediate connection to the Graumanites. A Fame Cult with some immediate similarities—the deified adding their names and identifying handprints to the still-wet mixture used to create walkway slabs in front of a house of worship called a Theater—there is still disagreement as to if this Sect ran contemporaneously with the Fame Walk, was part of the same cult, or were “fighting” against each other for the same limited number of “converts.” (See “1000 Movies to See Before you Die,” Siskel & Ebert, Unearthed Ed. 2196, Umbatu translation.)

2. Though some scholars have tried to make the connection between the Fame Cults and the Greater Billionaire Wars—of which the Bezos-Musk Space War is the most well known—this connection is currently coincidental at best. More study of what led to these conflicts is required before any serious claim of causality can be seriously asserted.

3. There is a well known and “heated” debate about this in academic circles at the time of this writing. The main point of focus is as to whether or not the female deities were selected because of their physical alterations (see “Silicone: the god-maker,” Douglass, 2488) or if their physical alterations were required if they wanted to keep their deified status (see “Implanted: Staying Abreast of Change,” P. Anderson & D. Parton, 2308)

4. There are also some anomalies that, as of yet, do not fit nicely into the assumed “Pantheon.” For example, there seems to be some worship of animals:

Beatles, The

Bunny, Bugs

Mouse, Mickey

Glossary of Terms

FAME - fām, noun. This appears to be the principal religion of many of the peoples of the Greater America Region at the beginning of the 21st Century. (See Ericsson’s seminal work “Tik Tok and the cult of Influencerism: The Genesis of the Narcissistic War” of 2035-2040; Also see Grandolino & Entione’s “Intsagram and the Fall of Modern Society,” 2496)

WALKWAY - wôk’wā”, noun. A passage or clearly defined path for ambulation by primitive humanity as an alternative to combustion-based conveyance. (See “Before the Gravulator: When Legs Moved History,” Fontana et al, 2399.)

ORDER - ôrder, noun. In this context, one of a select group of specializations within the Fame Cults, consisting of a focus in Music, Film, Television, Comedy. Lesser Orders include Influence, YouTuber, Tik Tok Dancer, Insta Fitness Guru, Daily Prompter.