Where do myth trees begin?
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Comparative Mythology
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Why Eve Theory of Consciousness Surpasses Julian Jaynes
Why Eve Theory of Consciousness better explains recursive selfhood, myth, ritual, and gene–culture evolution than Julian Jaynes.
Where Did Dragons Come From? Fifteen Theories Put to the Test
Fifteen dragon-origin theories—from giant snakes and ritual dances to rainbows, fossils, and predator fear—tested against their sources.
Women First: Eve, Pandora, Inanna, Nüwa, the Djanggawul, Izanami, Persephone
A companion to Eve Theory of Consciousness: reading seven mythic women as convergent cultural memory of the first self-aware rupture—knowledge, shame, death, and world-making.
Spider Grandmother at the Sipapu: Hopi Creation through the Eve Theory of Consciousness
A deep reading of the Hopi emergence myth—Spider Grandmother, Masau’u, the sipapu—mapped to the Eve Theory of Consciousness, with primary-source quotes and correspondence tables.
Nüwa Theory of Consciousness: Mending the Heavens in the Ice Age
Exploring the hypothesis that the Chinese mother goddess Nüwa preserves a cultural memory of end-Ice Age floods and the dawn of self-aware human consciousness.
A Case for Proto-Sapiens Roots: hankwa and henkwi Across World Languages
Commentary on Nicolas Bruneteau’s Proto-Sapiens glossary, focusing on the globally persistent roots *hankwa* (breath, life) and *henkwi* (snake, dragon).