A Time Traveller's Matrix to the Human’s and the source code of the Universe’s Heart

Dinis GuardaAuthor

Fri May 23 2025

When it comes to love we are in extra human uncharted complex and so powerful territory. One can visualize or imagine stepping into a temporal vortex, your consciousness spinning through the helical corridors of the storytelling memory of time itself, witnessing the unfolding tapestry of the universe and human “love” across thousands of years.

We are the species who bury our dead, a sacred act preserved in the silent earth of Paleolithic graves, stretching back 120,000 years. In those darkened hollows, where Neanderthals and early humans first laid their loved ones to rest, something extraordinary awoke: the recognition that a life was not merely lost, but irreplaceable. Here, in the quiet embrace of soil and memory, love declared itself—not just as fleeting emotion, but as the deep, unyielding thread binding souls across time.

From the first carved symbols 10,000 years ago to the whispered myths of our earliest tribes, humanity has etched its heartache and devotion into stone, clay, and song. Love, we learned, could blind us, bind us, and outlast even death. But what if this ancient code, written in graves and glyphs, holds more than just the story of human connection? What if it is the very cypher of the universe itself?

Love’s Ancient Echo in Our Bones

How can you feel your molecules vibrate as you plunge into love DNA as the first primordial love power known in the ancient waters of ancient Mesopotamia. The Love Song for Shu-Sin”—written around 2000 BCE in ancient Mesopotamia—is considered the oldest love poem that exists in text form.

This first recorded love poem was carved into clay tablets by the priestess Enheduanna, declaring: "In the bright moonlight, I am the woman of heaven... my vulva is a horn, a boat of heaven, full of eagerness." These strong words display the complexity and power of love and it is where our journey begins. Since the dawn of humanity civilizations - love has always found its voice in cuneiform, flesh and conscience.

Love or feelings of love and affection for humans, love for animals grows even further in history to The Oberkassel dog burial (14,000 years ago in Germany) that provides one of the earliest evidence of emotional attachment, where prehistoric people cared for a sick puppy for weeks before it died.

How Civilizations Sculpted Love’s Many Faces

As you hurtle through millennia, love was always underlying empires, passions and challenges that came with the interpretation of love in society, religion and firstly relationships between humans, man and women and same sex. As we deep dive we can witness the birth of romantic consciousness itself. See the Egyptian ancient stories of lovers, Sappho of Lesbos, circa 630 BCE, writing fragments that still make hearts shatter across time: "Once again love, the loosener of limbs, shakes me – that bitter-sweet creature for which there is no remedy." Her words aren't mere poetry; they're proto-scientific observations of love's biochemical effects on the human body. She documented what modern neuroscience confirms: love is a neurological phenomenon that literally "loosens limbs" through complex interactions of oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin.

Love Through the Ages: A Historical Timeline

Feel the sand beneath your feet in ancient Egypt, where the Pharaoh Ramesses II inscribes his eternal devotion to Nefertari on the walls of Abu Simbel: "My love is unique and none can rival her, for she is the most beautiful woman alive." Here, love intertwines with architecture, with empire, with the very stones that would outlast empires. The Egyptians understood love as Ma'at – the cosmic principle of truth, balance, and harmony that governs the universe itself.

Leap forward, and find yourself in classical Athens, where Plato revolutionises our understanding of love in his *Symposium*. Listen as Aristophanes spins his myth of the original humans – four-armed, four-legged spherical beings split apart by Zeus, condemned to search eternally for their other half. "Love is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete," he declares. This isn't merely philosophy; it's an early articulation of what quantum physicists now call entanglement – the spooky action at a distance that Einstein couldn't fathom, where two particles remain connected regardless of the space between them.

Watch Ovid in Roman exile, crafting his *Metamorphoses* – a cosmic symphony where love literally transforms reality. "Amor vincit omnia," he writes, "love conquers all things," but this isn't a sentimental notion. It's a recognition that love is the fundamental force of transformation in the universe, as real and measurable as gravity or electromagnetism. Every transformation, every metamorphosis in his epic, is driven by love's alchemical power to remake reality itself.

Travel to medieval Persia, where Rumi spins like a dervish, declaring: "Love is not an emotion, it is your very existence." Here, love transcends the personal, becoming a cosmic principle. "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." This is love as spiritual physics, as divine DNA written into the very structure of existence.

Witness the Renaissance explosion, where Leonardo da Vinci dissects corpses to understand love's anatomical pathways, while Michelangelo carves *The Pieta* – stone transformed into tenderness. Shakespeare simultaneously invents and dissects love in sonnets that remain unmatched: "Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come." Shakespeare has masterfully diagnosed and x-rayed the innuendos of love's temporal paradox – how it exists both within and outside time, vulnerable to decay yet somehow eternal.

Cross the Atlantic to witness Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in 17th-century Mexico, defending women's right to love and learn: "I became a nun because, although I knew that way of life contained much that was repellent to my nature, given my total antipathy to marriage, it was the least unreasonable and most decent I could choose." Her love takes the form of intellectual rebellion, proving love isn't singular but prismatic, refracting through countless forms.

Follow the Romantic poets as they scientifically study their own hearts. Watch Keats, dying of tuberculosis, write to Fanny Brawne: "I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute." This is love as experimental methodology, the poet as both researcher and subject, documenting love's intersection with mortality.

Leap into the 20th century, where Pablo Neruda performs chemical analyses in verse: "I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this." He's isolating love's essential compounds, proving that at its core, love is irreducible – it cannot be explained, only experienced and described.

Now fast forward into the present, where neuroscientists map love's neural pathways, where evolutionary biologists trace its genetic markers, where quantum physicists discover that observation affects reality at the subatomic level – and lovers have always known this instinctively. We're learning that love isn't metaphorical but measurably real, creating measurable effects in the physical universe.

Love’s Many Names Across Time

But what *is* love, this phenomenon that spans species, civilisations, dimensions? The answer lies in its multiplicity. Love is:

Eros: Passionate, romantic love that ignites bodies and souls
Philia: Deep friendship that forges unbreakable bonds across lifetimes
Storge: Familial love that roots us in legacy and belonging
Agape: Unconditional love that asks nothing and gives endlessly
Pragma: Practical love that builds civilizations stone by stone
Ludus: Playful love that reminds us joy is sacred too
Mania: Obsessive love that mirrors our deepest shadows
Philautia: Self-love—the foundation for all other loves

Each civilisation emphasised different aspects:

Sumerian: Divine energy birthing order from chaos
Egyptian: Harmony with Ma'at—the cosmic balance
Greek: Philosophical pursuit of truth through beauty
Roman: Alchemical force that transforms identity
Persian: Mystical reality woven into existence itself
Chinese: Natural equilibrium of yin and yang
Indian: Devotional path to transcendence
Islamic: Surrender to the Beloved's will
Christian: Sacrificial compassion as divine mirror
Modern: Biochemical symphony with unexplained magic

This collection of writings / research / poems doesn't merely catalogue love through the ages – it attempts to sequence its DNA, to map its genome across time and space. Each writing is a gene in love's endless quantum chromosome fabrics, a building block in the double helix that connects all human experience.

The Dance Never Ends: Your Turn in Love’s Cosmic Ballroom

Every writing, research and poem that follows is a love letter from you to the ones you love, the universe, and from the universe back to you. Because in the end, love isn't something we have or do – love is the DNA of what we are. It's the fire medium in which we exist, the ground key of our being, the entanglement music that moves through us when we give up everything and dare to truly see another human being and recognise them as a complement of ourselves.

This is Love DNA: the sequencing of the data code that writes itself through the incendiary visible and invisible fires in us, the sensitive and outburst song that mysteriously sings itself into our existence. Love is the ultimate intelligence paradox and a striking dance that divides and unites the whole of us across our relationships, our tribes, our planet and the cosmic ballroom of inner and outer space and time.

In my upcoming book Love DNA, I explore these threads - how love's dual nature as both creative and destructive force has shaped human history, and what ancient wisdom combined with modern science reveals about love's true essence. This work represents my lifelong quest to unravel the universe's greatest mystery: how love learned to express itself through us, and how we might fulfil its highest potential.

Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe, By Jeremy Rifkin

What Makes You Resilient: The Quiet Strength That Lives Within

Dinis Guarda

Author

Dinis Guarda is an author, entrepreneur, founder CEO of ztudium, Businessabc, citiesabc.com and Wisdomia.ai. Dinis is an AI leader, researcher and creator who has been building proprietary solutions based on technologies like digital twins, 3D, spatial computing, AR/VR/MR. Dinis is also an author of multiple books, including "4IR AI Blockchain Fintech IoT Reinventing a Nation" and others. Dinis has been collaborating with the likes of UN / UNITAR, UNESCO, European Space Agency, IBM, Siemens, Mastercard, and governments like USAID, and Malaysia Government to mention a few. He has been a guest lecturer at business schools such as Copenhagen Business School. Dinis is ranked as one of the most influential people and thought leaders in Thinkers360 / Rise Global’s The Artificial Intelligence Power 100, Top 10 Thought leaders in AI, smart cities, metaverse, blockchain, fintech.