The Ancient Romans, Like, the Pyramids, and Themselves

In the 16 hundred a, egypt is kind of like the occult centreof western conceptions of magic and stuff. The reason why that switch happened has a lot to do with a dude you've probably heard of named voltaire. Voltaire thought there were sacred truths in eastern and asian religion and mythology which westerners have forgotten. He thinks this gives them a kind of moral superiority over westerners. In his book candide, he gives the final word in the book to a turkish dervish civilization on the banks of the gonges. And it's worth knoting tham in the 16 hundreds, like, shit, like the pyramids,. they couldn't imagine how