Examines the evolutionary hypothesis that female-led selection pressures for social intelligence and self-domestication placed women at the vanguard of human evolution.
If Social Intelligence Made Us Human, Women Were Human First
How Did a Self-Aware Mind Evolve?
Meditations on mind, myth, and evolution. Cast the scales from your eyes!
TL;DR
- Symbolic thought emerged ~50,000 years ago, yet the universal human symbol, “I,” or the ego appears globally entrenched only in the Holocene ~10 kya.
- According to Eve Theory of Consciousness, women invented serpent-venom initiation rituals that reliably taught subject-object separation, producing powerful gene-culture evolution towards understanding “I am’” at a young age.
- The memory of this awakening is preserved worldwide in creation myths (cf. Lucifer, Nüwa, Quetzalcoatl) and was transmitted globally via bullroarer mystery cults (cf. the rites of Dionysus or Australian Dreamtime).
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I’m Andrew Cutler, a Machine Learning engineer researching human origins. My work connects psychology, comparative mythology, and AI to trace how recursive self-awareness evolved. Snakecult.net is a place for me to put lightly-edited AI-generated essays that explore niche questions (usually produced with OpenAI’s Deep Research or latest reasoning model).
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From Time Immemorial: What the Ancients Said About the Deep Origins of the Greek Mysteries
Ancient sources called the Greek mysteries ancestral rites and traced them through divine, Cretan, Phoenician, and Egyptian antiquity.
How the Gods Came East: Nüwa, Pangu, and the Western Roots of Chinese Civilization
Nüwa, Eve, Pangu, and Purusha preserve a creation package that moved east through the same Eurasian roads as wheat, chariots, metals, and glass.
The Flood That Made Us Human
Ovid’s Greek flood myth remembers humanity’s awakening into reflective consciousness, toil, civilization, and the serpent cult.
The Sumerian and Egyptian Roots of China’s Terracotta Army
The Terracotta Army’s giants trace a western royal tradition from Sumer and Egypt through Persia and Central Asia into Qin China.
Modernity Has No Creation Myth
Modernity has genealogy but no creation myth. EToC reunites Darwinian continuity with the mythic birth of the reflective human self.
Do Not Look Back: Lot’s Wife, Jangjamot, and the Global Myth of the Fatal Glance
A global survey of do-not-look-back myths, from Jangjamot and Lot’s wife to Orpheus and Medusa, separating true parallels from false ones.
The Serpent in the Snuff: Cebil, Yopo, and the Animal Grammar of Vision
How cebil and yopo became linked to serpents, jaguars, and shamanic transformation across the ancient Andes and Amazon.
Dionysus and the Deluge
How Dionysus became linked to Deucalion’s flood through Anthesteria, Zagreus, Eleusis, Osiris, and the later Arkite mystery school.
I Said I Proved Anthropic’s Riemann Zeta Result. I Hadn’t.
A mathematical mea culpa: I reconstructed Anthropic’s 67.25% zeta bound, claimed a proof too soon, and found the missing rank-trace step.