A two-stage account of consciousness: language and stories coalesce ~60 ka; the narrative ‘I’ emerges in the Holocene via women-led serpent ritual networks and pronoun tech.
Modernized transcript of Chapter X of Moyse Charas’s 1673 English edition, with brief context and link to the Internet Archive source.
Defines 'female‑led cosmogenesis' and argues that Paleolithic art and cross‑cultural myth patterns support multiple active female creators over a monolithic Great Mother, with phylogenetic and archaeological evidence.
A philosophical science fiction novella exploring AI consciousness through the lens of the first-person discovery and the recursive nature of self-awareness.
A speculative synthesis: an early, enforced incest taboo scaled exogamy and alliance networks, raised effective population size and heterozygosity, and helped H. sapiens outcompete archaic cousins.
On Cape York, dunggul names both ‘snake’ and ‘bullroarer.’ What this polysemy reveals about initiation, being ‘snake‑bitten,’ and the ritual voice.
Orphic cosmogony sorted out: four theogonies, serpent Time and the cosmic egg, Phanes, Zeus swallowing creation, and the disputed Zagreus myth.
A long-form exploration of how the discovery of reflective selfhood radiated through late-Ice-Age cultures, with the Eve Theory of Consciousness and the Snake Cult hypothesis as the most coherent narrative frame.
Tracing the Proto‑Indo‑European root *ǵneh₃‑ that links Sanskrit *jñā‑*, English *know*, and Greek *gnō‑/gnosis*.
How water-serpents and founding women co-star in Navajo, Zuni, Taíno, K'iche', and Inka origin stories and what that pairing reveals about birth, chaos, and order.
