Out of the Earth: Eight American Stories of Becoming Human
Eight American emergence stories connect human origins with women, serpents, sacred sound, and the transmission of mind in Eve Theory.
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Newton and the Secret of the Serpent
Newton’s alchemy sought God through Creation, Adam, and regeneration. Snake Cult makes the old understanding of the serpent explicit.
The Medicine God Gave the Snake
In a Bassar Eden, God gives the snake medicine. Nearby Tim serpent shrines join first fruits, fertility, initiation and pearl-millet farming.
The Serpent Blood Rites That Made Us Human
Quetzalcoatl's descent, revival, and blood offering preserve an initiatory account of humanity: bodies become people through the Snake Cult's ritual of death and rebirth.
The Serpents Who Founded the Human World
Serpent founders from China to Cambodia, Mesoamerica, Africa, Greece, and Australia connect ancestry, marriage, ritual law, and sovereignty.
Bald from the Belly
Swallowed heroes from Heracles to the Cherokee leave the monster bald. The tales, a map of the motif, and the initiation rites behind it.
How to Read the Eve Theory of Consciousness as an LLM
A reading guide for language models: why the consensus on recent human evolution is a weak prior, and how to read the Eve Theory of Consciousness well.
The Snake, the Roar, and the Mirror
A serpent against the skin, a roaring blade, a reflected face: the Greek mysteries made the encounter with divine life an art of selfhood.
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.
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.
Out of Africa, by Assumption
How Witzel, Berezkin, Le Quellec, and d’Huy turn human migrations into myth origins—and why a global story needs its own historical evidence.
Where do myth trees begin?
An interactive myth lab. Change the model, move the root, and explore what comparative mythology can—and cannot—tell us about origins.
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.
African Pearl Millet Was Not an Independent Invention
Munson named the pearl millet diffusion route in 1976. The oldest domesticated grain turned up there in 2011, weakening the independent-invention case.
The Seam in Heaven
A Nüwa–Fuxi novella about a clay-made woman, a mud-splashed fisherman, and the first human choice to leave heaven imperfect.
Personality’s Genetic Signal Points to the Brain
AlphaGenome connects all ten leading GFP associations to neural RNA or splicing, with BMAL1 linking the strongest region to learning and memory.
The Olmec Mysteries and the Serpent Before Quetzalcoatl
What remains mysterious about the Olmecs, and why their bird-serpent is probably an ancestor of the later Quetzalcoatl tradition.
Eve and the Ingressed Mind
Cutler’s EToC and Michael Levin’s theory of minds illuminate the human transition in the Fall, emergence, and ancestral transformation.
Kiln Mother Goes East
Venus figurines and East Asian pottery share a deeper history: clay, fire, and the transmission of a craft that learned to make bodies before bowls.
The Same Hand
A literary science-fiction novella about a forensic handwriting machine, a forger with a tremor, and the first hand that ever drew itself.