Hermeticism was influenced by Daoism and Daoism was around way before Hermeticism as a folk religion and shamanistic practice. Daosim was centrifuged as early a

Hermeticism was influenced by Daoism and Daoism was around way before Hermeticism as a folk religion and shamanistic practice. Daosim was centrifuged as early as 500BCE, a good 200 years before Hermeticism. It is most likely there was some cultural interactions, ie, the Dayuan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayuan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayuan