Cybele — Rhea’s Whirling Voice and the Birth of Civilized Life
How the Mother of the Gods, her roaring rhombos, and a dying youth became the soundtrack and syllabus of Greek, Phrygian, and Roman civilization.
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Christian Writers Ranked
A turbo-charged rundown of the 15 most influential Christian writers ever—complete with shock upsets, savage hot-takes, and receipts.
Bullroarer Cosmogenesis Initiation
An exhaustive survey of global bullroarer initiation cults and their teachings about creation and civilization.
African Origin Myths, Twin Motifs, Nommo, Ka-Snakes & Lebe Seru
Sweep through Yoruba clay-people, Dogon fish-twins, Egyptian ka-snakes, and Lebe's bullroarer to see how Africa narrates human beginnings.
World Mythology Does Not Support The Out of Africa Migration
Two more for the annals of lies, damned lies, and statistics
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Platonic Representation Hypothesis, gender wars, and VoM in the wild
Moments of Awakening (Survey)
When did the lights come on for you?
LLMs as Antichrist
Mammon's Simulacrum of Logos
Weaving Humanity: Women as Civilizers in World Mythology
A phylogenetic exploration of myths where women introduce clothing and weaving, symbolizing humanity’s separation from nature.
She Who Brings Death: Female Agents of Mortality in World Myth
A source-checked world survey of tales in which a woman's act unleashes mortality. Includes a brief note on the (thin) quantitative literature.
Old Woman ≘ Death Motif Across World Myth
A source-heavy world survey of tales where a crone decides that humans must die.
Who Was Here First? Indigenous American Myths of Earlier Peoples
Across the Americas, Indigenous traditions recall ant-folk, giants, and shadow-people who occupied the land before humans arrived.
Men From the Sea: Myths, Skepticism, and the Return of Trans-Pacific Contact
Why colonial tales of giants, 20th-c. positivism, and new genome data all matter for the debate over pre-Columbian Polynesian–American contact.
Campbell the Diffusionist: Boats, Not Brainwaves
Joseph Campbell's own words show that he traced mythic parallels to trade-routes and sea-lanes, not Jungian Wi-Fi.
Joseph Cambpell, Champion of Cultural Diffusion
A source-by-source catalogue of every passage where Joseph Campbell attributes mythic parallels to real-world cultural diffusion rather than Jungian psychic unity.
Consider the Chicken
Weighing archaeological, genetic, and historical evidence for whether chickens reached the Americas before Columbus.
Hallucinogenic Atlas: A Continental Census of Ancient Entheogens
Continent-by-continent survey of archaeological, textual, and biochemical evidence for ancient entheogenic practices.
Light-Poison, Eucharistic Toxikon & Cosmic Venom: three ophidian tropes unpacked
Close reading of Manichaean, Ophite and Naassene passages that speak of Christ-as-Serpent in pharmacological terms.
Christ as the Serpent: Gnostic & Dualist Traditions
An expanded survey of every known Christian-Gnostic current that equated Jesus with the Edenic serpent, complete with extended primary-source excerpts.
The ‘Venom’ Motif in Serpent-Christ Traditions
Do Gnostic writers ever speak of Christ's serpent as literally poisonous—or as an antidote? A source-by-source audit.