Oy, ne bulo z nashchada svita” The Song of Networked Consciousness

Abstract

This paper proposes an interdisciplinary synthesis linking three independent bodies of evidence: the geological hypothesis of catastrophic Black Sea flooding (~7,600 BCE); the archaeology of the Cucuteni-Trypillia civilisation (5,500–2,750 BCE); and the archaic Ukrainian cosmogonic carol ‘Koly ne bulo z Nashchada Svita’. We argue that the Trypillian cultural signature — mega-settlements without fortifications, ritual burning of settlements, spiral water cosmology, and the institution of hospitality — are not independent phenomena but constitute a coherent neurochemical imprint of collective flood trauma transmitted epigenetically across two to three generations. The central selection argument: after the catastrophe, two behavioural strategies existed — hostility and cooperation; only cooperative lineages survived in conditions of unfamiliar terrain, absent food stores, and critical information asymmetry. We are the biological and cultural successors of the second line.