@freemo Thou seem’st to be forgetting the luminary Paracelsus and his discourses on the three principles of salt, sulfur, and mercury. While he always acknowledged the Aristotelians and the groundwork they laid in the philosophy of the 4 earthly elements, these three principled elements are clearly far superior in both contenance and compositionality to produce—in appropriate proportion and preparation—the Philosopher’s Stone.

But water hog day is cool too I guess.