Mythology - Research Articles

How a naked-eye star cluster and a whirring plank became entangled in creation lore, initiation rites, and weather magic from Arnhem Land to Arizona.

How water-serpents and founding women co-star in Navajo, Zuni, Taíno, K’iche’, and Inka origin stories and what that pairing reveals about birth, chaos, and order.

From Greek shepherd‑seers to Kurdish snake‑queens, cultures worldwide claim a serpent’s bite, lick, or brew lets humans talk to animals.

A long-form comparative study of dismemberment-cosmogonies, snake-ash anthropogenies, esoteric water-mirrors, and the solar Herakles of the Orphic hymns.

Across the Americas, Indigenous traditions recall ant-folk, giants, and shadow-people who occupied the land before humans arrived.

Joseph Campbell’s own words show that he traced mythic parallels to trade-routes and sea-lanes, not Jungian Wi-Fi.

How a prehistoric serpent-goddess cult may have jump-started self-aware thought and spread its rites across the globe.

Systematic audit of 12 evolutionary, archaeological and mythic puzzles and how the Eve Theory of Consciousness purports to solve them.

Examines the surprising stability of mythic motifs over millennia, suggesting myths like the Cosmic Hunt or Serpent symbolism could encode memories of real cognitive shifts, supporting the Eve Theory’s timeframe.

From Eden through John’s Logos and Gnostic counter-myths to global ‘hanged-god’ rites, this essay reconstructs how reflexive consciousness emerged, iterated, and finally theorised itself.