Something along this line is perhaps less extreme, with the blessed units still very potent:
Smoking Mirror
dominion 5
Mausoleum (admin 20)
order +3 produc -3 heat 1 growth -1 luck -3 magic -3
give 177 gold at capitol
magic : fire 9, water 4, earth 4, nature 4, death 4, blood 4 (28 RP in drain 3)
the idea would be to set the research area outside the dominions, which is easily done with Mictlan.
You get 56 resources at capitol on first turn, you can buy 3 sun warriors and 2 Eagles. Rince& repeat. Complement your blessed units with demons, forget about the light infantry (which cost too much as others LI). As soon as you get at least 5 slaves a turn outside your capitol, have a moon mage summon a fiend of darkness a turn.
Just tried that a few turns. Not astonishingly potent, but seemed to works somehow.