ThroneofDravaris
07-02-2005, 04:11 PM
Found this a while back, not sure if this is old news or not.
I while ago, I was going through my Evangelion Manga and I found a nice little piece of information on the System Sephiroticum. (WAIT, that isn’t the point of the thread, bear with me).
As most people know, the name “Sephiroth” was derived from this. I’m not sure what relevance the Tree of Life has to anything, especially since most of the other religious devices are from Norse Mythology, but there you go. Anyway, I stumble across this passage in the text:
However, the pattern does accurately describe fundamental Jewish Kabbalistic beliefs: to wit, that the ten “sephirah (the word, which in the original Hebrew, is an ancestor of the English “cipher”) shown in the diagrams, are attributes of God…
Pay close attention to the comparison between the words Sepirah and Cipher. Now, is it just me, or are these words extremely close to Sephiroth and Seifer? It is said that Cipher was derived from Sephirah, so do you think that it is at all possible that Square, in naming Seifer, were making a reference to how similar they made him to Sephiroth (in appearance, not personality)? Maybe it’s just a random coincidence, but it would be nice to think that this sort of thought goes into our FF games…
Thoughts?
I while ago, I was going through my Evangelion Manga and I found a nice little piece of information on the System Sephiroticum. (WAIT, that isn’t the point of the thread, bear with me).
As most people know, the name “Sephiroth” was derived from this. I’m not sure what relevance the Tree of Life has to anything, especially since most of the other religious devices are from Norse Mythology, but there you go. Anyway, I stumble across this passage in the text:
However, the pattern does accurately describe fundamental Jewish Kabbalistic beliefs: to wit, that the ten “sephirah (the word, which in the original Hebrew, is an ancestor of the English “cipher”) shown in the diagrams, are attributes of God…
Pay close attention to the comparison between the words Sepirah and Cipher. Now, is it just me, or are these words extremely close to Sephiroth and Seifer? It is said that Cipher was derived from Sephirah, so do you think that it is at all possible that Square, in naming Seifer, were making a reference to how similar they made him to Sephiroth (in appearance, not personality)? Maybe it’s just a random coincidence, but it would be nice to think that this sort of thought goes into our FF games…
Thoughts?