A source-heavy, neutral survey of myths about long winters, cataclysmic floods, and great meltwaters—assessing if any preserve Ice Age memories.
Ice-Age Memory in World Myth: Floods, Fimbulwinters, and the Great Unfreezing
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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Wandjina–Wunggurr: Rain‑Law, Repainting, and the Maintenance of the World (Kimberley, WA)
A research‑oriented account of the Wanjina Wunggurr creation complex (Worrorra–Ngarinyin–Wunambal), showing how repainting rock images sustains seasonal order and Law.
Emergence Portals: American Myths Through the Eve Lens
From Hopi sipapus to Andean caves, New‑World creation stories mirror the moment ‘Eve’ first looked back at herself.
Etymology Of Atonement
A deep dive into how the word atonement grew from the Middle‑English phrase “at one” plus the French‑derived suffix ‑ment, and what that splice reveals about the youth of English.
From Reconciliatio To Atonement: How An English Neologism Ousted Latin, Greek, And Hebrew Mainstays
Why the English coinage atonement eclipsed classical terms like Latin reconciliatio, Greek katallagē, and Hebrew kippur—and what that shift says about Reformation‑era thought.
Hermeticism In Everyday Culture
How a once‑secret magical philosophy slipped into everyday English, from ‘quintessential’ cocktails to the vacuum‑packed peanuts you bought yesterday.
Peri & Daʿat — The Hebrew Roots Behind the “Fruit of Knowledge”
A philological dive into the Hebrew words for “fruit” and “knowledge” in Genesis, how they shift in Greek and Latin, and the later myths they spawned.
Rooting Daʿat: From Proto‑Afroasiatic y/w‑d‑ʕ to Gnostic Gnosis
A philological safari that follows the Hebrew word for “knowledge” from a prehistoric Afroasiatic root through Akkadian, Aramaic, and Egyptian detours all the way to the Nag Hammadi codices.
Transmigration of Souls
From late‑Vedic karma cycles to New‑Age past‑life therapy, a longue‑durée history of metempsychosis—plus the murky, pre‑literate hints that the doctrine may be Ice‑Age old.
Debunking the So-Called 70,000-Year-Old ‘Python Rock’ of Botswana
Why the celebrated ‘python’ carving in Botswana’s Tsodilo Hills is almost certainly a geological quirk mis-sold as the world’s first ritual.