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[div class="excerpt" style="border:solid 1px #000000"]‎It never was and never will be, because it is now - all together, one, holding to itself. What possible birth of it will you look for? In what way could it have grown? From what? To say or think, "from what is not" is not possible, because there is no saying or thinking that is not. And besides, if it started out from nothing, what could have made it come into being later rather than sooner? So it must either be, completely, or not be."by Parmenides (5th century BCE)
translated by Peter Kingsley

I wonder how far East some of those ancient Greeks went? Or if Venus visited their morning sky as well, as they incubated under a tree.