A tour of Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, Bochica, and other New World ‘white gods’, tracing primary sources, colonial chronicles, and later theories.
The Bearded Stranger From the East


A tour of Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, Bochica, and other New World ‘white gods’, tracing primary sources, colonial chronicles, and later theories.

From Eocene forest-dwellers to Spanish mustangs and genomic clones, this is a deep dive into the evolution, extinction, domestication, and return of the horse.

A comprehensive exploration of the bearded god archetype across the Americas, from Quetzalcoatl to Deganawida, examining how indigenous cultures imagined civilizing visitors from distant lands.

A long, neutral tour through Quetzalcoatl, Viracocha, and the recurring American myths of civilizing strangers who came from across the sea.

Ancient DNA, polygenic scores, and psychiatric genetics all say the human mind has evolved dramatically since the Ice Age—contra the 50,000-years myth.

Before introspective consciousness, humans were control systems without a narrative self. This essay reconstructs Golden Man using cybernetics, animal cognition, and Eve Theory of Consciousness.

Ten recent genetics and neuroscience papers that quietly support the Eve Theory of Consciousness: selection on language, psychosis, and the human self.

How recursive language, FOXP2, and fast-evolving regulatory DNA turned Golden Man’s mythic world into Eve’s self-conscious Garden exile.

What the Neolithic–Bronze Age Y-chromosome bottleneck reveals about male violence, patrilineal clans, and the evolution of the Bronze Age mind.

Explores whether schizophrenia-like states were once common, connecting psychosis, language, ancient DNA, and the evolution of consciousness.