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.

From Greek shepherd‑seers to Kurdish snake‑queens, cultures worldwide claim a serpent’s bite, lick, or brew lets humans talk to animals.

How Kunapipi and other Dreamtime beings swallowed novices, digested their boy-souls, and spat out initiated adults—plus parallel spirit-child myths.

A long-form comparative study of dismemberment-cosmogonies, snake-ash anthropogenies, esoteric water-mirrors, and the solar Herakles of the Orphic hymns.

New counts show that roughly four out of five Ice-Age human images are female, overturning ideas that “Venus” figurines were an isolated fertility cult.

A philological and comparative deep dive into the famous opening of the Babylonian Enūma Eliš and its theology of naming.

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.