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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A long-form comparative study of dismemberment-cosmogonies, snake-ash anthropogenies, esoteric water-mirrors, and the solar Herakles of the Orphic hymns.
![A fragmented, redacted genetic research log displays a schematic human genome map. A specific gene cluster, labeled "[REDACTED] - A1335.10-14", pulses …](/images/posts/old-woman-death-motif-v1.webp "AI-generated cover")
A source-heavy world survey of tales where a crone decides that humans must die.
A source-checked world survey of tales in which a woman’s act unleashes mortality. Includes a brief note on the (thin) quantitative literature.
A phylogenetic exploration of myths where women introduce clothing and weaving, symbolizing humanity’s separation from nature.
Across the Americas, Indigenous traditions recall ant-folk, giants, and shadow-people who occupied the land before humans arrived.
Weighing archaeological, genetic, and historical evidence for whether chickens reached the Americas before Columbus.
Why colonial tales of giants, 20th-c. positivism, and new genome data all matter for the debate over pre-Columbian Polynesian–American contact.
Continent-by-continent survey of archaeological, textual, and biochemical evidence for ancient entheogenic practices.
How a prehistoric serpent-goddess cult may have jump-started self-aware thought and spread its rites across the globe.
How recent sweeps, dosage compensation, and X-linked disorders reveal the chromosome’s outsized role in human brain evolution and sex-biased cognition.