He banned beans because he thought they contained souls, demanded his followers endure years of silence, and claimed to remember his past lives (including being a Trojan hero and a fish). His secretive brotherhood treated numbers like divine beings, and he supposedly lost his mind over the idea that the planets hum cosmic harmonies. He was a math genius, but also one philosophical fever dream away from starting a numerology space religion.
Pythagoras is generally considered to be pseudo-mythological these days. Take any claims about his direct actions with a large grain of salt, there’s little telling what he did and said compared to what his cult made up after he died.
Same with Pythagoras.
He banned beans because he thought they contained souls, demanded his followers endure years of silence, and claimed to remember his past lives (including being a Trojan hero and a fish). His secretive brotherhood treated numbers like divine beings, and he supposedly lost his mind over the idea that the planets hum cosmic harmonies. He was a math genius, but also one philosophical fever dream away from starting a numerology space religion.
Pythagoras is generally considered to be pseudo-mythological these days. Take any claims about his direct actions with a large grain of salt, there’s little telling what he did and said compared to what his cult made up after he died.
We could be living in the ruins of a greek-built Mons Olympus theme park on Mars itself, but no, BECAUSE beans smelled weird.