From Sumerian celestial navigators and Egyptian star gazers at the altars of the Cosmos to gauge the flooding of the Nile--(the tears of Isis' sorrow for Osiris), down through the Abramaic Fathers genealogy, the streams of Wisdom our Greek brothers would later call Φιλοσοφία (Philosophy), converged at the infamous Templem Solomonis, 500 years before the Babylonian Siege of Jerusalem.
The Fountain of all Wisdom, enshrined passed the walls of cedar would issue from the Ark of the Covenant or Arche/αρχή (origin, beginning), passed down from Moses and Aaron like a pre Roman-Rite monstrance before the procession of peoples. The Psalms of the Royal Bard of Israel who cradled his Harp and played before the Mercy Seat for the Homeless God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob may in time have reached Homer's fine-tuned ear.
The Temple guarded by Cherubim through the vision of King Solomon and said to have been built at the Foundation Stone, over the place where the first man (ανθρωπος) was created, housed this wisdom that would travel the trade routes from the pilgrimages of Sheba, Arabian Queen of the South, then run its course and spread far and wide to all Kingdoms and Nations as Divinity of knowledge by the "Author of Beauty". Its wisdom "overflowed like the Pi'shon, and like the Tigris at the time of the first fruits, it runs over, like the Euphrates, with understanding and like the Jordan at harvest time, it pours forth instruction like the Nile" (Sirach 24:23-27).
Among the most symbiotic of peoples who searched and were refreshed by this Wisdom were the Greeks and Israelites under the influence of Biblical narrative. Homeric poetry would absorb its naturalistic literary devices, its prophetic symbolism and ripple across the East Mediterranean to the Atlantic Coast of Africa. United by common trade language, the Israelites and Pheonicians would deliver the alphabet to the Greeks by way of the ocean. The Phoenician sea farers of universal goods, (carriers of civilization), a people who co-built Jerusalem with the cedars of Lenanon and whose hands dyed the Priestly garments and the adornments of the Temple opened the port to Western Culture. Together, these two worlds: the ancient near East and the West held the balance of Revelation and Philosophy--it would become the Water (Revelation) and Wine (Philosophy) that would fill the new wineskins at the banquet of Faith and Reason where empirical truth and Divine truth would later intermingle on the lips of the Angelic Doctor (Aquinas).
Byzantine Icon. The Wedding at Cana
As this love of wisdom reached further west and irrigated the thoughts of the early Miletian thinkers, the Greek's first Philosopher and Father of Science:Thales (Θαλῆς)-- θαλαττης (of the Sea)*, would propose the first cause of existence was water, reflecting the Yahwist account of the separation of earthly and heavenly waters and make capillary waves in their understanding of cosmology and the pre-Socratic thinkers' perspective on matter and natural philosophy.