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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Neutral survey of contacts between Greek and Buddhist philosophy—documented encounters, plausible doctrinal links, and Near Eastern/Indo-Iranian third sources—with primary citations.
How Quechua ñawi—eye, opening, portal—complements the Proto‑Sapiens *ŋAN ‘breath/soul,’ from textiles to star‑lore, and why that matters for consciousness.
A cross-cultural catalogue of native names for the bullroarer and their other meanings—soul, ancestor, wind, moth, law, spirit—grounded in primary sources.
A neutral field guide to the most-cited Old‑World inscriptions, coins, and curios said to predate Columbus in the Americas—with sources, context, and who still argues for them.
A research-oriented account of the Karajarri Bagadjimbiri myth—its primary sources, ritual correspondences, and links to initiation and circumcision—concluding with an analysis in light of the Eve Theory of Consciousness.
Primary‑source account of Baiame as sky‑lawgiver and Daramulan at Gamilaraay/Wiradjuri bora/burbung, with quotations, tables, and an EToC‑aligned analysis.
A concise, primary-source-driven read on the Hamitic Hypothesis, its core claim, and what Holocene archaeogenetics (Y bottleneck & Neolithic migrations) do—and don’t—support.
How a Hmong cosmogony—Nkauj Ntsuab and Sis Nab in the Qhuab Ke—maps onto the Eve Theory of Consciousness: female-first ‘I’, serpent cult, and ritual rebirth.
Deep dive on the Masonic square‑and‑compasses with the letter G—its meanings, origins, and esoteric layers—read against ancient ‘sacred geometry’ and craft cosmology.
Comparative, primary-source survey of the bullroarer across Aboriginal Australia—regional names, mythic agents, rites, taboos, and symbolism—with analysis and EToC mapping.