Meditations on mind, myth, and evolution. Cast the scales from your eyes!
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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An exhaustive survey of legendary and historical figures who journeyed to Egypt to learn ancient mysteries, from Greek philosophers to religious leaders, showing how Jesus’s childhood sojourn fits into this longstanding tradition.
A deep dive into Y-chromosome haplogroup A00, the oldest known human paternal lineage. We explore its discovery, its shocking age, and the debate over whether it represents a ‘ghost’ archaic population or an ancient, isolated branch of Homo sapiens.
A reframing of the Eve Theory of Consciousness (EToC) as a gene–culture coevolutionary process that produced recursive, self-referential attention, leading to a phase transition in human consciousness.
A deep dive into how Charles Darwin might view the Eve Theory of Consciousness—a modern hypothesis on the evolution of human self-awareness—and what aspects of this theory would compel or surprise him.
A steelman argument that Basal Eurasian is not a real ghost population, but a selection-induced distortion in f-statistics and admixture-graph fitting.
A companion to Eve Theory of Consciousness: reading seven mythic women as convergent cultural memory of the first self-aware rupture—knowledge, shame, death, and world-making.
A diffusionist analysis tracing the squatting ‘hocker’ motif and Heraldic Woman from Göbekli Tepe through Luristan bronzes, Maori lintels, and Aboriginal Australia.
A tour through archaeology, genetics, and comparative myth to see how much of the Eve Theory and the Snake Cult of Consciousness survives contact with outside evidence.
A counterfactual: what would change if even one ‘hoax’ artifact like the Bat Creek Stone or Newark Decalogue were proven genuinely Old World and pre-Columbian?
A critical but sympathetic reconstruction of the strongest case for the Tucson lead crosses as evidence of a medieval Old World colony in Arizona.