No I’m not “expert” on everything, I like accuracy in all of its forms.
It’s to keep this knowledge from turning into blackmagic newagery.
If people find the historicity of knowledge “dull” that’s fine, someone has to keep the sanity.
People tend like to invent new meaning for things to suite their UPG at the expense of what history, archaeology, etymology, symbology, has defined and proven.
The occult is all ready dangerous, in disregarding facts about these topics we risk self delusion and fantasy, and drift closer to the realm of newage thought, which is an unnecessary danger that can be avoided with proper research.
Not all scholars are wizards, but all wizards are scholars. (or they should be)