Whether Hindus or Greeks, Egyptians or Japanese, Chinese, Sumerians, or ancient Americans — or even Romans, the most “modern” among people of antiquity — they all placed the Golden Age, the Age of Truth, the rule of Kronos or of Ra or of any other gods on earth — the glorious beginning of the slow, downward unfurling of history, whatever name it be given — far behind them in the past.
Savitri Devi, The Lightning And The Sun