What Newton copied, translated, and annotated from the alchemical–Hermetic corpus, why he did it, and how faithful his versions are.

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.

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 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.

Joseph Campbell’s own words show that he traced mythic parallels to trade-routes and sea-lanes, not Jungian Wi-Fi.

Weighing archaeological, genetic, and historical evidence for whether chickens reached the Americas before Columbus.