Neheb-Ka, Binder of Souls
Neheb-Ka, the Egyptian serpent god, and the language of harnessing souls: a SnakeCult reading of ka, initiation, and the birth of selfhood.
How Humans Evolved
Research Articles
Arowanas Are Cousins, 50 Million Years Apart
The Amazon and Australian arowanas split about 50 million years ago across a forested Antarctica. The Asian arowana is the harder puzzle.
Contra d’Huy on the African Root of World Mythology
A global myth is not an African fossil. Why d’Huy’s roots beg the question, and Ice Age Europe offers a better home for the bullroarer complex.
Modernity Has No Creation Myth
Modernity has genealogy but no creation myth. EToC reunites Darwinian continuity with the mythic birth of the reflective human self.
The Bullroarer Atlas: Mapping a Thousand Attestations of the World’s Strangest Instrument
An interactive world atlas of 1,200+ bullroarer records reveals a sacred-to-toy gradient, a thin post-Ice Age archaeological record, and a snake where the wood survives.
The God Behind the Rainbow: Pygmy Genesis, Mambela, and the Bullroarer
How Pygmy Genesis myths connect to Mungu, the ambelema rainbow serpent, Mambela initiation, and the maduali bullroarer.
The Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: Every Extant Ancient Version
Every extant ancient version of the Dionysus death and rebirth myth, translated and compared from Onomacritus to Nonnus.
The Dying Brain: Physiology, NDEs, and What Animals Can (and Can’t) Tell Us
A source-heavy deep dive into dying-brain physiology, terminal EEG phenomena, near-death experiences, and what animal models can and cannot imply.
When Trees Lie: Selection, Admixture, and the Myth of a Single Ancestry
How natural selection and admixture distort phylogenetic trees, why human genomes are mosaics, and what to use instead.
When Consciousness Is Under Selection: How Recent Cognition Selection Would Warp Human History Models
A selection-aware re-read of human population trees and divergence times if cognition faced strong selection in the last 50,000 years.