Light is the first, true discovery of humanity.

But does darkness spring from light, or viceversa?

Light and darkness are inseparable.

Each contains the seed of the other. White emerges from black, day from night, in an eternal cycle of balance. There is no absolute primacy of one over the other; they are twin elements, born together at the very moment of creation.

Man knows that without light, darkness would remain unknowable:

it is light itself that reveals the shadow, allowing it to exist as an essential contrast.

We require light to see, and shadow to discern.