Survey of African flood myths by region, with annotated sources, motif analysis, and diffusion/selection arguments for specialists in comparative mythology.
African Flood Myths: Motifs, Provenance, Diffusion
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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Australian Dreaming Myths and the Dawn of Consciousness
How Dreaming narratives—Djanggawul, Wawalag Sisters, Rainbow Serpent—encode a prehistoric shift toward self‑aware, language‑driven culture.
Lament of Nature: Did Baldr Borrow From Tammuz?
A brisk review of scholars who claim the Norse cosmos‑weeps motif comes from the Mesopotamian Tammuz cult—and why most specialists now disagree.
Orphic Cosmogony: Chronos, the Cosmic Egg, and Dionysus Zagreus
A deep dive into the Orphic creation myth—from Chronos’ serpent-coiled Cosmic Egg to Dionysus Zagreus’ dismemberment—and how it shaped Greek mysticism, soul-body dualism, and later Neoplatonic thought.
Orphic Mirror Interpretations
How a child-god’s fatal toy became a philosophical symbol for embodiment, matter and selfhood—from Neoplatonists to today’s classicists.
Orphism and the Eve Theory of Consciousness
A comparative look at the Orphic creation myth and Andrew Cutler’s Snake Cult/Eve Theory of Consciousness, highlighting shared motifs of serpents, cosmic eggs, and female-led awakenings.
Rattlesnake Medicine and the Navajo Bull-Roarer
How the Navajo bull-roarer (tsin ndi’ni’) is charged with ritual medicine and embodies Snake-power in the Big Star Chant, including connections to rattlesnake blood in arrow poison formulas and therapeutic healing.
Severing Heaven and Earth: The Cosmic Split in Mythology
A comprehensive exploration of the mythic motif of Heaven and Earth being severed or separated, as seen in ancient Hurro-Hittite epics and other world creation myths.
Sub-Saharan Creation Myths and the Eve Theory of Consciousness
How classic Yoruba, Vodun, Zulu, Bushongo, and Dogon creation stories echo the Eve Theory of Consciousness: female catalysts, serpent motifs, and liminal waters.
Tó Nilt’į́į́h / Tsénilyáʼí
Exhaustive profile of the Navajo clown-deity Tó Nilt’į́į́h — also glossed as Tsénilyáʼí — and his signature instrum ent, the bull-roarer (tsin ndi’ni’).