A Journey Through 2,000-Year-Old Cosmology That Parallels Modern Big Bang Theory The Question That Started It All Imagine you are a scholar in ancient Tamilakam around the year 200 CE. Around you, the Sangam literary academies flourish with poets crafting verses about love, heroism, and nature's beauty. But one poet—a man named Keeranthaiyer—dares to ask something different. Not "Who was the greatest warrior?" or "How do we describe the moonlight?" but rather:  How did the universe itself come into being? This wasn't a theological question seeking divine agency. Keeranthaiyer didn't approach it as a priest reciting creation mythology. Instead, he approached it as an observer of nature, as someone who had watched rain fall, seen floods transform landscapes, observed how soil emerges from rock, and recognized that life springs from water. He took these observations and, through poetic genius and logical reasoning, wove them into a description of cosmic evo...