The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“Pythagoras began listening to debates among Persians, Babylonians, Judeans, and Egyptians. None possessed the whole room. Their disagreements did not weaken knowledge; they exposed where each tradition had mistaken inheritance for proof.”
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Later biographical traditionAncient or late-antique tradition supplies the premise; the private scenes are reconstructed.
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.
The captivity, teacher Mehrasp, and all private scenes are historical fiction built from later traditions.