When you think it started. Will depend largely on your personal beliefs and religious affiliation or lack there of.

Some people have suggested it predates recorded history. Just the age old struggle of “Good Versus Evil” repeating the same song and dance. Others indicate a century or two. The most popular theories and ideas I’ve personally seen. Tack it between 70-600 years. Exact timeframe varying by theory.

There’s a lack of a definitive hard start-date that we can point to. That isn’t influenced by the personal preferences, bias, and experience of Anons. Because the evidence simply isn’t there.

Most of the competing theories Anons have come up with have at the very least some circumstantial evidence to argue for that particular theories version of events.