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.
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.
We could be living in the ruins of a greek-built Mons Olympus theme park on Mars itself, but no, BECAUSE beans smelled weird.