Beringia’s Two-Way Street: Toolkits, Standstills, and Back-Migrations
What Beringian toolkits and genomes reveal about two-way movements between Siberia and the Americas—from Dyuktai microblades to toggling harpoons and back-migrations.
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Spirit-Indwelling Initiation Rites and the Bullroarer
Across Australia, West Africa, Greece, and Amazonia, the bullroarer marks initiation as literal spirit indwelling—ritual death, rebirth, and presence of the god or ancestor.
Mid-Century Pre-Clovis Claims—and Why They Fell
A forensic tour of mid-20th-century pre-Clovis claims—what was alleged, how it unraveled, and what finally cracked the Clovis-first orthodoxy—for readers tracking the peopling of the Americas.
The Cosmic Egg Everywhere: Orphic, Vedic Hiranyagarbha, Chinese Pangu, Finnish Kalevala
A crisp, source-heavy comparison of world‑egg cosmogonies and their serpent binders—Orphic, Vedic, Chinese, Finnish—to test whether a deeper shared structure sits beneath the oviform surface.
The “Snake Venom Entheogen” Theory in Ancient Mystery Cults
Survey of textual clues and modern hypotheses that ancient mystery cults may have used snake venom in controlled rites, with sources and cautions.
Teotlaqualli Reconstructed: Unguents of the Aztec Gods
Reconstructing teotlaqualli as a skin-delivered entheogen—tobacco, ololiuhqui, and ‘venom-ash’—with testable pharmacology grounded in Nahua sources and modern dermal science.
Recursive Eve: EToC Meets Suddendorf–Corballis on the Last 100,000 Years
EToC and Suddendorf–Corballis converge: human recursion and autonoetic time-travel coalesced over the last 100k years, leaving archaeological and mythic fingerprints.
Female Katabasis vs. Male Dying Gods: What Changes?
A sharp comparison of Inanna, Persephone, and Xquic with Dumuzi, Adonis, Osiris, and Telepinu—pinpointing which ritual and seasonal functions specifically track female agency.
Dragon‑Slayers and Flood‑Stoppers: A Shared Paleolithic Template?
Do dragon-slaying and flood-control myths encode a deep, Paleolithic schema about taming water? Comparative myth + paleoclimate with testable predictions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.