>
> I am guessing that this is a pun on "evil-mode", but I am inclined to
> agree.  At least "evil" stands for "extensible vi layer for Emacs".
>

Semantically, it's something of a cross between the popular packages "evil
mode" and "god mode". I do understand that it's pretty strongly 'inside
baseball'[1], but it's also (IMHO) the sort of idiosyncratic package that
one would usually not expect new-to-emacs users to pick up right out of the
gate.

Hope that helps,
~Chad

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_baseball_(metaphor)