Bald from the Belly
Swallowed heroes from Heracles to the Cherokee leave the monster bald. The tales, a map of the motif, and the initiation rites behind it.
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Neheb-Ka, Binder of Souls
Neheb-Ka, the Egyptian serpent god, and the language of harnessing souls: a SnakeCult reading of ka, initiation, and the birth of selfhood.
Out of Africa, by Assumption
How Witzel, Berezkin, Le Quellec, and d’Huy turn human migrations into myth origins—and why a global story needs its own historical evidence.
Where do myth trees begin?
An interactive myth lab. Change the model, move the root, and explore what comparative mythology can—and cannot—tell us about origins.
Contra d’Huy on the African Root of World Mythology
A global myth is not an African fossil. Why d’Huy’s roots beg the question, and Ice Age Europe offers a better home for the bullroarer complex.
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.
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.
A Room for Those Who Return
A literary science-fiction novella about an intelligence that dismantles promises and discovers what a self may be for.
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 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.
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.
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
An Egyptian king list from the divine dynasties through Menes to Cleopatra VII, with Manetho's and Turin's pre-Menic reign totals dated under stated assumptions.
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.
The Flood That Made Us Human
Ovid’s Greek flood myth remembers humanity’s awakening into reflective consciousness, toil, civilization, and the serpent cult.