“…the very name Pythagoras is suggestive. Philologists who have made an exhaustive study of the name have suggested that the etymological meaning of Pythagoras is fire teacher, from pyr, fire, and guru, the Hindu name for teacher. The close connection, shown in a previous chapter of this book, between ancient Greece and Egypt, and India through Persia, gives plausible reason for accepting the Orient as the probable source of the name, while the similarity—almost identity of spelling and pronunciation—only serves to confirm it.” — The Great Pyramid Of Gizeh (1916): Chase, J Munsell