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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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Holocene Selection on Human Intelligence: A 50,000-Year Reality Check
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Chaos Contained: Nehebkau, the Ogdoad, Greek Primordials & the Cosmic Bond
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African Origin Myths, Twin Motifs, Nommo, Ka-Snakes & Lebe Seru
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Bullroarer Cosmogenesis Initiation
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Cybele — Rhea’s Whirling Voice and the Birth of Civilized Life
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Hermes and the Serpent Symbol
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Isaac Newton’s Alchemical Translations and Esoteric Sources
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The Serpent-Mother Who Swallows Souls
How Kunapipi and other Dreamtime beings swallowed novices, digested their boy-souls, and spat out initiated adults—plus parallel spirit-child myths.