The Book of DieselThe Light Before the Gospel“The chains eventually came off. Pythagoras discovered that freedom was not the restoration of the person he had been. Babylon had ruined his ability to believe that wisdom traveled in only one direction.”
The Book of Diesel · Gospel Threshold Edition v4.5
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.