Evidence: Pythagoras in Chains
Later biographies say Pythagoras was taken from Egypt to Babylon after Cambyses’s conquest and studied with Magi and Babylonian scholars. These detailed traditions were written centuries later and cannot be treated as secure biography. Ancient or late-antiq…
The Book of Diesel 26 · prequel→evidenceEvidence: The Physician Who Wanted to Go Home
Herodotus places the Greek physician Democedes at Darius I’s court after he was sent to Susa as a captive. He reportedly healed Darius, treated Atossa, received extraordinary rewards, and still sought a way home. The setting or public event is documented; d…
The Book of Diesel 29A · prequel→evidenceEvidence: The Old Magus
Matthew does not name, number, or follow the Magi after their departure. The cited text, place, practice, or historical setting is real; Jesus’s Magian training and private actions are the novel’s declared reconstruction. Mehrasp as a surviving original vis…
The Missing Years 46 · missing→