This picture depicts a couple of Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings fused together to make a Homunculus. A Homunculus is the idea that there are various processes in the brain that interact creating consciousness or self-awareness. I’m most interested in the notion that self-awareness is a side effect of these processes working together to accomplish the complex tasks required to merely exist. My way of creating Homunculi is quite easy.

Check the way people in the old days:) Here are three recipies for the making of Homunculi:

Paracelsus the alchemist once discribed creating Homunculi, it was a Golem-like creature that was about a foot tall. The closetest thing in modern lore is Robert Crumb’s Snoids, people who live in your butt. According to Paracelsus the Homunculus he created turned on him and escaped. His recipe consisted of a ” bag of bones, sperm, skin fragments and hair from any animal of which the homunculus would be a hybrid. This was to be laid in the ground surrounded by horse manure for forty days, at which point the embryo would form.”

Other alchemists claim to have created Homunculi using mandrake root which sort of resembles a human form. People believed that Mandrake grew from the sperm ejaculated by hanged men which fell to the ground during the spasms of death. Accordingly, the mandrake is harvested on a Friday morning by a black dog, then washed and “fed” with milk, honey and blood. This makes it develop into a little human which is supposed to guard and protect its owner.

Yet a third method, was to take an egg laid by a black chicken, poke a tiny hole through the shell, replace a bean-sized portion of the white with human sperm, seal the opening with virgin parchment, and bury the egg in dung on the first day of the March lunar cycle. A miniature humanoid would emerge from the egg after thirty days, which would help and protect its creator in return for a steady diet of lavender seeds and earthworms (Mmmm).