Mythology - Research Articles

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.

Do dragon-slaying and flood-control myths encode a deep, Paleolithic schema about taming water? Comparative myth + paleoclimate with testable predictions.

A sharp comparison of Inanna, Persephone, and Xquic with Dumuzi, Adonis, Osiris, and Telepinu—pinpointing which ritual and seasonal functions specifically track female agency.

EToC and Suddendorf–Corballis converge: human recursion and autonoetic time-travel coalesced over the last 100k years, leaving archaeological and mythic fingerprints.

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.

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.

A Persian deep‑dive into serpent myths—Zahhāk to Shahmaran, Anāhitā to Gōčihr—linking archaeology, Avesta, and epic to the Eve/Snake Cult model of consciousness.

Newton’s euhemerist move: why he equates Dionysus/Bacchus with Osiris and the historical Egyptian king Sesac (a.k.a. Sesostris/Shishak), and how Bacchic rites mirror Osirian cult.

Do emergence-style creation myths reach back to the Paleolithic? A critical synthesis of phylogenetic work, Pueblo/Andean data, and Paleolithic ‘Venus’ iconography that centers women as cosmogenic agents.

Defines ‘female‑led cosmogenesis’ and argues that Paleolithic art and cross‑cultural myth patterns support multiple active female creators over a monolithic Great Mother, with phylogenetic and archaeological evidence.