Ἐπιμενίδης

Son of Phaistos↗ or Dosiadas or Agiasarchos and, as his mother, Blasta; a Cretan from Knossos↗; an epic poet. Of him there is a story that his soul could leave his body on any occasion he liked and enter it again;¹ and long after he had died his skin was found tattooed with letters. He lived in the 30th Olympiad,² which makes him a predecessor rather than a contemporary of the so-called Seven Sages.³ At any rate he purified Athens↗ from the Kylonian curse in the 44th Olympiad,⁴ as an old man [by that time]. He wrote many epic poems and, in prose, certain mystery-writings and spells and other riddling works. Solon the lawgiver⁵ wrote against him criticizing the purification of the city. This man lived for 150 years, but for 90 [of them] he slept.
And [there is] a proverb, 'Epimenidean skin', in reference to things discarded.⁶