Mythology - Research Articles

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.

Exploring the evolution of self awareness through Genesis, John’s Logos, Gnosticism, and sacrificial myths, linking the Edenic serpent to Christ and the birth of the conscious self.

Analyzing Max Müller’s 19th-century work on serpent worship, focusing on his identification of serpent symbolism in Vedic and Indo-European traditions and comparing his findings with global serpent myths relevant to the Snake Cult hypothesis.

How Cosmic-Herakles sets the wheel of time while Dionysus turns it toward liberation in Orphic-Bacchic cults.

Snake-shaped Zeus in chthonic cults, Orphic theogony, and Stoic ekpyrosis, mapped onto the Herakles–Dionysus macro-/micro-myth.

An exploration of the serpentine creator deities Nüwa and Fuxi in Chinese mythology and their parallels in world mythologies.

A comprehensive exploration of African origin myths from West, Central, Southern, and North Africa, detailing the roles of supreme deities, mystical ancestors, and cultural heroes in creation stories.