The Snake Kept the Skin
Why snakes shed their skin and people die: the lost-skin origin of death from Vanuatu to Gilgamesh, Greece, Genesis and the Amazon, read as one story.
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The First Rainbow Serpents
Where and when the earliest Rainbow Serpents were painted in Arnhem Land, mapped against the drowning of the Arafura plain 10,000 to 7,700 years ago.
Before the First Smile
Zhuangzi and Laozi on the infant before the first smile: the child taught to say ‘who’, early death, and the newborn whom snakes will not bite.