Ancient wisdom is invoked and transformed through vignettes in an episodic nature. Historical epochs have captured not just the zeitgeist of their day and age but also revealed the cyclical nature of power and decline, frailty and invincibility, and obscurity and prominence. We still gaze up at the stars hoping to discern what our ancestor did when they looked up for the first time wondering about those that came before them and those that will come after them, just as we do, for the past is eternally connected to the present.