If you secure a high-adjacency Holy Site (near Tundra with Aurora, or Desert with Folklore) and pick the belief, your Holy Site provides Production equal to its Faith adjacency. Add the Scripture policy card to double it.
You now have a 10-20 Production district in the very early game. It’s essentially a "cheat code" for building Wonders in 5 turns while everyone else is still struggling with Scouts. 5. Chopping: The Secret to Instant Victory
Focus entirely on Faith generation in the Ancient Era (God King card, Holy Sites, or Earth Goddess pantheon).
Once you hit a Classical Golden Age, Monumentality allows you to buy Settlers and Builders with Faith. Because Faith is generally easier to accumulate in large quantities than Gold or Production, you can "spawn" an entire empire in 20 turns. You aren't building a civilization; you're manifesting it. 2. The Diplomacy Gold Mine