Editing Temple of Zeus (organization) (section)

=== Inception ===

In the early 2000s, Maxine Dietrich began the creation of the Joy of Satan Ministries.<ref name=":9" /> Maxine Dietrich established a Satanic ideology that would present itself as an esoteric form of [[LaVeyan Satanism]], but would espouse a "traditional Satanism" by establishing its satanic fundamentals from ancient [[Ancient Middle East|Middle East]], [[Vedas|Far-Eastern]] and [[Paganism|Western teachings]], and only acknowledging the Judaic/Abrahamic concept of Satan as a reaction.<ref name=":12">{{cite book |last=Introvigne |first=Massimo |author-link=Massimo Introvigne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nt8zDwAAQBAJ |title=Satanism: A Social History |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |year=2016 |isbn=978-90-04-28828-7 |series=Aries Book Series: Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism |volume=21 |location=[[Leiden]] |pages=370–371 |oclc=1030572947}}</ref> [[File:Ea (Babilonian) - EnKi (Sumerian).jpg|thumb|The ancient clay tablets served as a basis for many ancient astronaut theorists. This Adda Seal depicts [[Enki|Ea]] (Sumerian Enki), god of subterranean waters and of wisdom,[[Isimud|Usimu]], his vizier (chief minister), the sun god Shamash (Sumerian Utu) at the centre, and the winged goddess Ishtar (Sumerian Inanna) to the left.]]