Christian Writers Ranked
A turbo-charged rundown of the 15 most influential Christian writers ever—complete with shock upsets, savage hot-takes, and receipts.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hallucinogenic Atlas: A Continental Census of Ancient Entheogens
Continent-by-continent survey of archaeological, textual, and biochemical evidence for ancient entheogenic practices.
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.
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 Serpent’s Gift: Mythic Echoes of an Ancient Consciousness Cult
How a prehistoric serpent-goddess cult may have jump-started self-aware thought and spread its rites across the globe.
The Logos and the Serpent: Mythic Evolution of Self-Awareness
Exploring the evolution of self awareness through Genesis, John's Logos, Gnosticism, and sacrificial myths, linking the Edenic serpent to Christ and the birth of the conscious self.
X Chromosome and Higher-Order Cognition
How X-linked gene dosage, inactivation escape, and imprinting sculpt human brain development, intelligence, and social behavior.
X Chromosome And Cognition
How recent sweeps, dosage compensation, and X-linked disorders reveal the chromosome's outsized role in human brain evolution and sex-biased cognition.
Deep Roots Of Pan-American Culture
How pronouns, rituals, myths, and fluted spear points reveal a single Ice-Age culture behind all pre-Columbian peoples.