Cobra Venom and Epilepsy: From 1910 Reports to Ion Channels
Tracing the journey from 1910s snake venom injections for epilepsy to today’s venom-derived ion channel modulators for treating seizures and pain.
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The Pirahã in Eden: A Holdout Beyond the Human Condition
Argues—within the Eve & Snake Cult theories—that Pirahã culture preserves a pre-Holocene mode of mind; contrasts with Clovis-era ‘apex’ consciousness; weighs genetics, ritual, and myth.
Stories, Then the Story of ‘I’: EToC across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene
A two-stage account of consciousness: language and stories coalesce ~60 ka; the narrative ‘I’ emerges in the Holocene via women-led serpent ritual networks and pronoun tech.
Bristol’s Hunt for Hy-Brasil: Pre-Columbian Rumors and Atlantic Voyages
Bristol’s late-15th-century hunts for the phantom isle “Brasil”: what the sources say, what they imply, and how rumor primed England’s leap across the Atlantic.
Ghosts of the Ice Age: The Ancient North Eurasians and Their Global Legacy
Ancient North Eurasians: who they were, what their Ice Age culture looked like, and how far their genes and cultural innovations reach today.
New Experiments Upon Vipers — Chapter X (Modernized Transcript)
Modernized transcript of Chapter X of Moyse Charas’s 1673 English edition, with brief context and link to the Internet Archive source.
The Atman Question
Can AI write a sci-fi novella?
The Serpent Without a Self: A Deep History of Buddhism
From Paleolithic serpents and female self-making to the Buddha’s deathless: tracing a cultural-blood chain—from Mal’ta to the Ganges—that flowers as Buddhism.
Serpent Sovereignty: Snake‑Cult Grammar and the Eve Theory from an Iranian View
A Persian deep‑dive into serpent myths—Zahhāk to Shahmaran, Anāhitā to Gōčihr—linking archaeology, Avesta, and epic to the Eve/Snake Cult model of consciousness.
Masks Before Masks: A Diffusionist History of the Ritual Face
A diffusionist deep dive tracing masked ritual from a single Levantine hearth—stone masks and plastered skulls—to a global grammar of spirit embodiment.
Serpents as Control‑Surfaces: Iranian Plateau Iconography, Eve Theory, and the Snake Cult of Consciousness
Across the Iranian Plateau, snake imagery worked as a ritual interface for water, time, and sovereignty—keys for Eve Theory and the Snake Cult of Consciousness.
Heracles and the Snake Cult of Consciousness
Reading Heracles’ serpent episodes—Hydra, Ladon, Cerberus—as initiatory stations of a pan‑Eurasian ‘Snake Cult of Consciousness,’ with Eleusis as capstone.
Heracles, the Great Mother, and Eve Theory: Amazon Girdles, Eleusis, and Initiation
Reading Heracles’ labors—especially Hippolyta’s girdle and the Eleusinian initiation—as ritual memories where male consciousness apprentices to the Great Mother’s sovereignty.
The Great Mother and Sacred Prostitution: a phenomenology of hieros gamos and cultic eros
How older scholars stitched the Great Mother to temple sexuality—through hieros gamos, consecrated personnel, and fertility rites—using Greek, Near Eastern, and Roman evidence.
Newton’s Ur-Faith: Reconstructing the First Religion
How Isaac Newton tried to recover the primitive monotheism—using textual criticism, chronology, and myth-as-history to rebuild a universal true religion.
Newton’s Osiris = Bacchus = Sesac
Newton’s euhemerist move: why he equates Dionysus/Bacchus with Osiris and the historical Egyptian king Sesac (a.k.a. Sesostris/Shishak), and how Bacchic rites mirror Osirian cult.
The Atman Question
A philosophical science fiction novella exploring AI consciousness through the lens of the first-person discovery and the recursive nature of self-awareness.
The Incest Taboo as a Decisive Human Technology
A speculative synthesis: an early, enforced incest taboo scaled exogamy and alliance networks, raised effective population size and heterozygosity, and helped H. sapiens outcompete archaic cousins.
Female‑Led Cosmogenesis vs. the Great Mother
Defines 'female‑led cosmogenesis' and argues that Paleolithic art and cross‑cultural myth patterns support multiple active female creators over a monolithic Great Mother, with phylogenetic and …
Emergence Myths, Female Agency, and Deep Time
Do emergence-style creation myths reach back to the Paleolithic? A critical synthesis of phylogenetic work, Pueblo/Andean data, and Paleolithic ‘Venus’ iconography that centers women as cosmogenic …