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Woah. The Ancient Greeks did the metal thing too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man Maybe it was an even ear
by shrimp_emoji 3y ago
Woah. The Ancient Greeks did the metal thing too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man
Maybe it was an even earlier Proto-Indo-European meme that radiated out to everyone.
- akomtu 3y agoSpeaking of Greeks, they believed that such universal ideas come from the world of ideas, or the world of archetypes; great thinkers merely perceive this world, and that's why different cultures seemingly by accident end up with the same ideas in their "books of wisdom". In this worldview, the achievement of greek or indian philosophers isn't creating the idea of the four ages, but expressing it in the limited thoughts framework they had to deal with. It's a lot like how painters try to express what they see on a small flat rectangle of paper.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoThey were wrong; it's all from the Proto-Indo-Europeans.