Do Not Look Back: Lot’s Wife, Jangjamot, and the Global Myth of the Fatal Glance
A global survey of do-not-look-back myths, from Jangjamot and Lot’s wife to Orpheus and Medusa, separating true parallels from false ones.
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The Bullroarer Atlas: Mapping a Thousand Attestations of the World’s Strangest Instrument
An interactive world atlas of 1,200+ bullroarer records reveals a sacred-to-toy gradient, a thin post-Ice Age archaeological record, and a snake where the wood survives.
Did Odysseus Discover America? The Source Dossier
Could Odysseus have reached America? A source dossier on Homer, Plutarch, Atlantic islands, Newfoundland, and Bay of Fundy.
Narrative Selves in Deep Time
A deeper dive into the narrative self—its layers, neural basis, cultural variability, and possible deep-time origins via the Eve Theory of Consciousness.
How Wrong Would We Have to Be About Old World Contact?
A systematic look at how archaeology, genetics, linguistics, and disease ecology would all have to fail for substantial Old World settlement in pre-Columbian America to be real.
Visiting Gods and Prophets: The Myth of the Traveling Civilizer in the Americas
A comprehensive exploration of the bearded god archetype across the Americas, from Quetzalcoatl to Deganawida, examining how indigenous cultures imagined civilizing visitors from distant lands.
Severing Heaven and Earth: The Cosmic Split in Mythology
A comprehensive exploration of the mythic motif of Heaven and Earth being severed or separated, as seen in ancient Hurro-Hittite epics and other world creation myths.
Orphism and the Eve Theory of Consciousness
A comparative look at the Orphic creation myth and Andrew Cutler's Snake Cult/Eve Theory of Consciousness, highlighting shared motifs of serpents, cosmic eggs, and female-led awakenings.
The Primordial Matriarchy and the Gendered Evolution of Consciousness
Integrating Venus figurines, goddess myths, and X-chromosome sweeps to re-evaluate women’s possible leadership in early human culture.
The Bullroarer: A Global Marker of Cultural Diffusion and Male Initiation Ceremonies
How a simple whirled instrument traces the spread of male secret societies and ritual culture from the Late Paleolithic to the present.
When I Means the Same Thing Everywhere: How Pronouns Hint at a Proto Sapiens
Exploring how ultra-stable words like pronouns and numerals preserve deep traces of linguistic ancestry across continents.
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.
Proto-Sapiens ŋAN: Charting the Anima Mundi from the First Breath
A speculative reconstruction of a Proto-Sapiens root *ŋAN, proposing an ancient global word for 'breath' and 'soul' and tracing its reflexes across major language families.
Nuwa Fuxi Etoc
An exploration of Chinese serpent deities Nüwa and Fuxi through the lens of the Eve Theory of Consciousness, revealing parallels between Eastern and Western creation myths.
Jing Hypothesis (Alternative)
A speculative reconstruction of a proto-word for 'soul' or 'spirit' dating back 15,000+ years, examining cross-linguistic echoes of ancient life-force terminology.
Etoc Down of Consciousness
Explores the Eve Theory of Consciousness, proposing that human self-awareness was a late cultural innovation taught through ancient snake cult rituals, explaining the gap between anatomical and …
The Snake Cult of Consciousness: Science and Western Esotericism Converge
Snake Cult of Consciousness weaves neuroscience, evolutionary theory, and Western mystical symbolism into a hypothesis on the origins of human self-awareness.
Manly P Hall And The Eve Theory Of Consciousness
A deep exploration of how mystic philosopher Manly P. Hall might interpret the Eve Theory of Consciousness—the notion that human self-awareness (“I am”) arose relatively recently—by examining ancient …
Eve Theory of Consciousness – Through David Reich’s Eyes
Exploring how geneticist David Reich might view the Eve Theory of Consciousness – a bold hypothesis that human self-awareness emerged culturally and only later became encoded in our genes.
Theories on the Origins and History of the Zuni People
An in-depth survey of mainstream and fringe theories about the origins of the Zuni people, covering archaeology, linguistics, genetics, oral tradition, and speculative diffusionist claims.