Aristotle is one of the two distant gods of Epistry. The planet is the first object of epistry, and that's meant to echo his first philosophy.
How the word moved
In August 2014 he showed up as the man who said humans are rational animals. In July 2026 I made him a patron of Epistry, alongside Nagarjuna.
In my words
"The planet is the ‘first object’ of epistry (that should remind you of Aristotelian first philosophy and the unmoved mover as its first object…)"
from Habitability: Recasting the Planetarity Syllabus, 27 Jul 2026