There are no lost secrets of the ancients. And there's no universal conspiracy to keep the truth from us.
But there is a thing called Pattern-Seeking that evolution has embedded in our firmware. So, sometimes - usually way more often than we like to admit - we think we've found what we went looking for, when actually, we're fooling ourselves into believing we're not just smash-fitting a conclusion in order to sync up with a romantic hypothesis.
see also:
pareidolia
the tendency to perceive a specific, often meaningful image in a random or ambiguous visual pattern.
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