The Maya and Inca mythologies heavily featured cyclical and never-ending stories. In Indian ( Hinduism and Buddhism ) philosophy, the “wheel of time” (Kalachakra) sees the ages of the universe come around over and over again. The Greek Stoics (and, later, Friedrich Nietzsche) offered a version of “eternal recurrence” — where this world, and this reality, would come around again, exactly the same way.
