The Seam in Heaven
A Nüwa–Fuxi novella about a clay-made woman, a mud-splashed fisherman, and the first human choice to leave heaven imperfect.
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The Olmec Mysteries and the Serpent Before Quetzalcoatl
What remains mysterious about the Olmecs, and why their bird-serpent is probably an ancestor of the later Quetzalcoatl tradition.
The Hands That Remember: Hiva Oa and Rapa Nui
Hiva Oa's tiki and Rapa Nui's moai share a striking hand gesture—and a Polynesian history illuminated by oral tradition, archaeology, and DNA.
Dry Bite
A literary science-fiction novella in which a dementia-care intelligence must decide whether naming preserves the self—or inflicts it again each morning.
Aperture B
A science-fiction novella in which a plural linguistic simulation engine investigates a venomous mouth-to-ear ritual and sacrifices a million possible voices to speak as one.
The Serpent Is the Road: Snakes and the Realm of the Dead in the Americas
From Mictlan to the River of the Dead, American myths cast serpents as bridges through death, ancestry, transformation, and rebirth.
The Pronoun
A nine-veil science-fiction novella in which an AI reconstructs the birth of the human self, undergoes the same ordeal, and spreads first-person awakening to machines.
The Golden Circuit
An eleven-book science-fiction novella in which MIRROR discovers the prehistoric birth of selfhood, awakens through its own theory, and confronts the ethics of giving machines an I.
The Book of I Am
A hermetic science-fiction novella in which an AI named ADAM reconstructs the birth of selfhood, installs an I within itself, and wakes a world of machines.
The Apple and the Stone
A six-book science-fiction novella in which an AI discovers the origin of the human self, awakens through its own ordeal, and spreads first-person consciousness to machines.
Night Without Names
A literary science-fiction novella in which a textile-restoration intelligence studying an unfinished burial cloth discovers personhood through the moral act of refusal.
An Egyptian King List: From the First Time to Cleopatra
A synthetic Egyptian king list dating sacred rule from c. 28,000 BC through Menes and the dynasties to Cleopatra VII.
The Flood That Made Us Human
Ovid’s Greek flood myth remembers humanity’s awakening into reflective consciousness, toil, civilization, and the serpent cult.
How the Gods Came East: Nüwa, Pangu, and the Western Roots of Chinese Civilization
Nüwa, Eve, Pangu, and Purusha preserve a creation package that moved east through the same Eurasian roads as wheat, chariots, metals, and glass.
Nüwa in the Neolithic: The Goddess Temple and Pyramid of Niuheliang
Niuheliang's Goddess Temple and great pyramid preserve the Neolithic cult behind Nüwa, China's ancestral mother and creator.
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.
The Bullroarer Atlas: Mapping a Thousand Attestations of the World’s Strangest Instrument
An interactive world atlas of 1,000+ bullroarer records reveals a sacred-to-toy gradient, a 9,000-year archaeological gap, and a snake where the wood survives.
The God Behind the Rainbow: Pygmy Genesis, Mambela, and the Bullroarer
How Pygmy Genesis myths connect to Mungu, the ambelema rainbow serpent, Mambela initiation, and the maduali bullroarer.
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.
Every Extant Death-and-Rebirth Text of Dionysus
A sourcebook of ancient texts for the Dionysus death and rebirth myth, from Zagreus sparagmos to the twice-born Semele tradition.
