How a simple whirled instrument traces the spread of male secret societies and ritual culture from the Late Paleolithic to the present.
The Bullroarer: A Global Marker of Cultural Diffusion and Male Initiation Ceremonies
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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The Primordial Matriarchy and the Gendered Evolution of Consciousness
Integrating Venus figurines, goddess myths, and X-chromosome sweeps to re-evaluate women’s possible leadership in early human culture.
Pronouns Across Africa: Shared Roots or Shared Contact?
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Manly P Hall And The Eve Theory Of Consciousness
A deep exploration of how mystic philosopher Manly P. Hall might interpret the Eve Theory of Consciousness—the notion that human self-awareness (“I am”) arose relatively recently—by examining ancient allegories like Adam and Eve and the esoteric meaning behind humanity’s fall into the conscious mind.
Serpent Apple And The Snake Cult Of Consciousness
Why Genesis pairs a snake with an apple: a Paleolithic antivenom-and-vision ritual encoded in myth.
Snake Cult of Consciousness and the Sapient Paradox
The Snake Cult of Consciousness reframes the Sapient Paradox: behavioral modernity emerged ~15 kya through memetic—not genetic—diffusion of selfhood.
Venom As Elixir Of Life
Why serpent venom microdosing sits at the root of alchemical, Daoist, and New‑Age quests for an elixir of life—and what that implies about early biotech.
Enoch, Hermes Trismegistus, and Joseph Smith’s Book of Moses
Comparative analysis of Joseph Smith’s Enoch revelations and the Hermetic Poimandres vision, exploring the Enoch-Hermes tradition.
Knower Self And The Gn Erosion Hypotheses
A deep dive into two speculative etymologies linking the global N-pronoun to ‘knowing’—either semantically (knower = self) or phonetically (ǵn- > n-).
Eve Theory of Consciousness v4
A comprehensive interdisciplinary theory proposing that human consciousness originated as a cultural invention in prehistoric times, likely pioneered by women and spread through ritual and language.