Why so many women?

[Besimudo]

Well it is Easter break soon, so if i feel compelled to cite and reference an essay i will.

I thought the idea here (forums)was to throw ideas around, not to sit down and actually research to produce an extended explorative on the topics.

Oh I consider ancient myths to be religion.
To the Greeks and the Vikings, their myths were just as important as our Christian myths are today. Try not to separate religion and myth, else you end up with those "literal creationists" who try to marry science and myth. For example.... "evidence found to prove the tower of Babel".... This is idiocy because the biblical accounts are mythical just like the Greek.

The thing is that as Christianity expanded it consumed much of the ancient European myth into its very own matrix. Even Easter is a pagan myth to feed the fertility goddess. Christmas as we know it is very Teutonic, the whole "Christmas tree" tradition is reminiscent of tree worship by the Swedish and Danish Vikings... The Germans simply decorated these trees with "Christian symbols" to assimilate the old with the new.

(I could go on all day), the way I like to keep my posts is to express an idea (or multiple in some cases) and then everyone else has a smorgasbord offering their own crazy insights into the game.

Oh finally, the religious implications in FF8 are suggested, they are not literal like in FF10. This makes them so much more profound, it’s a bit like reading the myth of the tower of Babel…this doesn’t seem that religious at first but if we analyse it we see a reflection of the apple in Eden, where knowledge destroys mans relationship with god… for this man is (once again) punished. These are the kind of insights FF8 presents and quite simply one not versed in ancient texts will miss them.

What can I suggest… read up on some ancient Greek and Viking religion, then replay FF8…you will then see its brilliance and it will save me from having to explain every little reference.

Kali…for some one with the Hindu destructive cycle (Kali) as their alias on the forum, you should be presenting some crazy insights of your own. Clearly my posts are not very coherent, but I write them at home very late at night, when I am able to connect with the muses. Normal deductive thinking is not the realm of insight.