01/27/26
belial.org
during one of my usual looks into unexplained things, and a brief look into "four.org", a website of its own weirdness, i had the idea to type in random other short words to see what i could find. eventually, i had tried "belial.com" and found it up for sale, but was then struck with the idea to check "belial.org", a decision that would send me to the only internet oddity that i have not ever seen discussed, one with absolutely no record on the internet.
what is belial.org?
as pictured above, belial.org is a simple website on the surface. it features a demonic seal, although notably not the goetic seal of belial, as well as a series of red dashes, but looking further makes things all the more confusing.
to begin with, let's look at this seal. as previously stated, it is not the goetic seal of belial, nor any seal related to him. i cannot figure out the seal itself, either, beyond the obvious of it being a pentagram, and transliterating the text from elder futhark gets the letters (from top, clockwise) "atanlewi", which seems completely incomprehensible. the imagery of dual ravens atop skulls is also completely unrelated to belial, the closest link i can find is odin's crows?
the text is also very odd, at first glance it resembles morse code, but it is only dashes. to break it down fully, it is both red and black dashes, in specific groups, within a "code" tag, seeming to imply that it is indeed a code of some sort. it does not line up with an a1z26 cipher, nor morse code, nor any cipher that i could find. my best guess had been binary, with the red representing a "1" and the black representing a "0", but this does not seem to translate to ascii or unicode? my last guess as of writing this is that the odd seal may be a key of some sort for the code, but i cannot decipher it in my sleep deprived state.
despite the strangeness of it all, and it being seemingly nonsensical, i am positive it is hiding something. the "code" tag is an odd choice in this situation, having absolutely no benefit as this is not computer code, and seems to rather point to this being a cipher. in addition, the text itself is composed of over 1300 nodes, this website would have been absurdly tedious to design. this is not made without purpose.
the history of belial.org
as with the current lack of a presence, this website has an interesting history as well. searching nets you two mentions ever to be exact of the website itself. what we do know, from its domain records, is that the website is swedish in origin, which is coroborated by these two mentions.
firstly, to begin with the more basic mention, the danish wikipedia page for satanism tells us of its links to a satanic group called "svenska satanistkyrkan", also known as "the satanic order", although it has supposedly been shut down. (on a side note, following this enlightens us slightly to the seal on belial.org, being the church of satan's "baphomet sigil").
The second mention gives us even more insight, as this forum thread about swedish satanism, in which the users complain about the website being shut down, contains contact information for those running the site back then, in 2009. the website was, at the time, for a webstore called "belial center" that was operated by the afformentioned satanic order. the forum thread also alludes to some inner drama, but that's neither here nor there, not when there is finally a lead.
belial center seems to have been an influential force in the swedish satanist community, accoridng to this essay and this interview with the owner, but all sources point towards it now being defunct, with the church dissolved.
the truth?
so, all is solved now, right? belial.org is a defunct storefront... because that is exactly what we saw when we first looked at it... except it's not. it was a storefront at one point, that is all we now know, there's not even proof that it is owned by the same person anymore. and beyond that, even if it is just a substitute page to keep the domain, what is with the elaborate code? as i said earlier, making that would be mind numbingly tedious, when they could just have put the seal?
none of it makes any sense, so, why not approach from another direction? on a more technical level, this is what i have learned: the webserver this is running on also hosts open protocols for ssh, ftp, and a full email server, the domain itself is purchased through namecheap.org, and it expires in 46 days as of writing. not much, honestly, but something that does stand out is the lack of confirmation for the location. sure, there is one review website that claims it to be in the same location that belial center was run from, but the current scans show nothing of the sort, only that it has the same host as shown on that review website. just adding to the confusion, i suppose?
...welllll, one last thing. one that i only just saw while finishing this up, and looking back at my data: the creation and update dates! unsurprisingly, it was created in 1998, alongside the business it was linked to, but the interesting thing comes with the update date, that being 12/02/2025! so we know, at least, that this is not some abandoned page. after all, the business closed long ago, why would they update a static placeholder?
beyond that though, i am stuck. the code is confusing, the seal's text is confusing, everything about this website is confusing, especially the fact that seemingly nobody has stumbled across it yet? hopefully someone can solve it, because while i will take another crack at the code, but i don't expect much to come from it. :/
01/28/26
a small update
looking back at this now, i have noticed something. looking at the seal a bit differently, you get lewiatan, which seems to be polish(?) for leviathan. so, at the very least, the seal seems to be explained in full now.
02/06/26
some futher findings, and calling it quits
i have been kinda obsessing over this code the past while, and i have gathered a few details that just leave even more questions unanswered.
to begin with, i have used python to iterate through the code and get the length of each dash segment in a formatted text file. it begins on the red dash, and then alternates between the red dash's number and then the invisible dash's number. and as i said on tumblr while researching, it doesn't seem to be in groups, oddly enough? it ends on red, meaning that it can't be coordinate pairs or anything like that.
the best i have found for it is a barcode, it is the only code that makes any sort of sense logistically, but scanning the barcode it makes would just get you the numbers back, so i don't know what they want.
and lastly, i have assembled a timeline for this website? with an interesting in-between that i missed when internet archive was down on my first research binge.
pre-2009: swedish satanists
2009-2013: website fully down
2013-2016: website blank, only contained the phrase "You need the secret key to unlock the door.."
2017-2018: website down once more
2019-now: website is as pictured above in this post
one last thing, actually, tech-wise? hypothetically, if the website was port-and-directory-scanned, one would find nothing interesting for directories besides an unused /icon/, but as for ports, it is more interesting. belial.org has a full email system in place, not using old protocols either. it also has ftp and ssh set up, and my theory is that this code is for one of those systems.
so, all in all, this website is weird, especially that nobody has ever spoken of it, but it seems like a dead end. and as much as i idolize him, i'm not alan turing, so i have no shot at breaking such an unconventional code.