olendeid
Olendeid is a neologism used in speculative fiction and worldbuilding to refer to a class of animate beings or personified concepts tied to oil resources. They may appear as guardians, spirits, or deities of petroleum, or as symbolic embodiments of wealth, power, and environmental risk. The concept is used to explore how societies relate to oil.
The word is a constructed compound, blending sounds associated with oil and deity or deid, depending on
In literature and worldbuilding, olendeid are described as agents that interact with human communities around extraction,
In scholarship and speculative philosophy, the term is sometimes employed as a thought experiment about agency,
See also: oil deity, animism, energy ethics, resource curse.