2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again" --Battlestar Galactica (originally from Peter Pan though)

"What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun."[1] from Ecclesiastes 1:9. Apparently the quote not only describes the phenomenon, but has become witness to itself.

[1] https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16462/jewish/Ch...

Just as it was before, so it will be again. -Vashista

The same events will repeat in every Yuga -Vishnu Purana (1.3.1-2)