Female Katabasis vs. Male Dying Gods: What Changes?
A sharp comparison of Inanna, Persephone, and Xquic with Dumuzi, Adonis, Osiris, and Telepinu—pinpointing which ritual and seasonal functions specifically track female agency.
How Humans Evolved
Research Articles
Dragon‑Slayers and Flood‑Stoppers: A Shared Paleolithic Template?
Do dragon-slaying and flood-control myths encode a deep, Paleolithic schema about taming water? Comparative myth + paleoclimate with testable predictions.
The Cosmic Egg Everywhere: Orphic, Vedic Hiranyagarbha, Chinese Pangu, Finnish Kalevala
A crisp, source-heavy comparison of world‑egg cosmogonies and their serpent binders—Orphic, Vedic, Chinese, Finnish—to test whether a deeper shared structure sits beneath the oviform surface.
Recursive Eve: EToC Meets Suddendorf–Corballis on the Last 100,000 Years
EToC and Suddendorf–Corballis converge: human recursion and autonoetic time-travel coalesced over the last 100k years, leaving archaeological and mythic fingerprints.
Cobra Venom and Epilepsy: From 1910 Reports to Ion Channels
Tracing the journey from 1910s snake venom injections for epilepsy to today’s venom-derived ion channel modulators for treating seizures and pain.
Bristol’s Hunt for Hy-Brasil: Pre-Columbian Rumors and Atlantic Voyages
Bristol’s late-15th-century hunts for the phantom isle “Brasil”: what the sources say, what they imply, and how rumor primed England’s leap across the Atlantic.
The Atman Question
Can AI write a sci-fi novella?
The Serpent Without a Self: A Deep History of Buddhism
From Paleolithic serpents and female self-making to the Buddha’s deathless: tracing a cultural-blood chain—from Mal’ta to the Ganges—that flowers as Buddhism.
Masks Before Masks: A Diffusionist History of the Ritual Face
A diffusionist deep dive tracing masked ritual from a single Levantine hearth—stone masks and plastered skulls—to a global grammar of spirit embodiment.
Heracles, the Great Mother, and Eve Theory: Amazon Girdles, Eleusis, and Initiation
Reading Heracles’ labors—especially Hippolyta’s girdle and the Eleusinian initiation—as ritual memories where male consciousness apprentices to the Great Mother’s sovereignty.