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Something I have yet to see mentioned is how much Primordial Crucible lore invokes Abrahamic ideas of Angels. Standard disclaimer that as with all traditions, there is variation across time and place, what is considered doctrine vs. folklore.
To recount Primordial Crucible lore 101 -> long ago the presence of extra body parts (eg. wings, horns, eyes, tails) called Aspects of the Crucible was viewed as a sign of divinity. These aspects include both animal and plant (eg. flower, thorns) features, and can be found on all manner of living beings.
Having a chimeric appearance (human-animal hybrid especially) with numerous eyes, wings and faces is a common trope in depictions of angels. The Lamenter transformation even bears an extra face on it's back.
The vision of Ezekiel describes Living Creatures (Hayyōṯ). Divine beings who are the bearers of the throne of God. They have faces of a Lion, Eagle, Ox and Human respectively. In ER, the Horned Warriors are a select group who protect the Divine Tower, they have features of Lion, Bird, Horns (ie. Ox) and Humans.
The Living Creatures are also identified as Cherubim. The Cherubim (and equivalent beings) were seen as guardians of sacred places (eg. temples) (at least as artistic motif).
Crucible Knights are holy warriors that fly on golden wings.
Angels are associated with divine fire and light, if not composed of it themselves. In ER, the Primordial Crucible includes elements of light (see. Golden Bird Feather) but also fire (see. Crucible Breath). Even the name Crucible invokes the idea of fire.
Jacob's Ladder is a motif that depicts a stair/ladder connecting heaven and earth (ie. god and men). Angels are typically depicting travel up and down it. It can sometimes be depicted as a spiral shape (as in William Blake's art).
This basic visual idea of stair/ladder between heaven and earth recurs across the Abrahamic Religions. For an explicit association with heavenly ascent by humans see. The Ladder of Divine Ascent. While the real world concept is meant spiritually, ER literalizes it with Spira, the "column that stretches to the gods". Atop the spiral tower of Enir-Ilim is a Divine Gate. Horned spirit beasts can launch skyward via. spiral currents called Spirit Springs.
Next are Fallen Angels. The broad idea that some portion of Angels sinned and thus lost their standing/were banished by the divine. In some traditions, Fallen Angels are thought to have become Demons.
The sacred status of the Crucible aspects is in the past. In the immediate pre-Erdtree time, the most sacred aspect was horns. You could read into how Christianization of the Mediterranean changed the view of horns/horned beings. From Horned (also. "Storm and Bull") deities being widespread in the region, to horns eventually being seen as a feature of devils and demons.
The holy land of the Crucible was separated from the world, thrown into shadow and burnt by a Satan-like figure.
Mohg features plenty of Demon imagery, but also resembles the Lamenter; whose state is like a "denizen of paradise". Invoking the idea of Angels and Demons as the same beings, pre vs. post fall.
"Luminary" is also title for angel-like beings in Sethian Gnosticism (too obscure a pull maybe?).
There's probably more if you dig for it, this is just all I can say for now.
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One is completion, wholeness, everything.
One pours out of itself to become two.
Two is contrast. Something and Nothing. Yes and No. Past and Present. Large and Small.
The basis of relativity, of discreteness, of measurement. The minimum of something. The scaffold of an ordered universe.
genuinely crazy its taken me until now to realize the abductor virgins are essentially a variation on the living jars. we were always so focused on the snakes we forgot the meat… and even that grab attack. that’s intaking a human body into the “container” !!
possibly also more kodoku references too, given the snakes, but im not sure how deep that goes. womb motifs i think are also a part of things too, and not necessarily disconnected from the living jar thing either… a jar is just a womb. the whole process is just (re)birth
figuring out just who the virgin is supposed to be would also be ideal. i do think daedicar makes sense, but i once saw a theory that said it was rykard mocking marika in some kinda way (re: a conspiracy that she actually stole messmer, or something). idk how much stock i put in that, but it is definitely juicy still
but circling back around. definitely something to the idea of rykard not only emulating the jar practices of the hornsent he himself would torture, but also building upon the form of the vessel itself, and turning those back on marika’s people when he turned to blasphemy
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Has anyone ever mentioned that the Primordial Crucible features a ton of Angel imagery/allusions.
re; new Empyreans being unexpected.
There is a almost universal assumption that new Empyreans are found = Marika is actively seeking an heir. But in hindsight, Ranni dialogue explicitly spells out how each Empyrean was found to be such by their "own 2 Fingers". Its never been a question of political favour, who is/isn't the queen's personal favourites.
Also implication of internal family strife, which even if never spelled out in detail, must have existed (otherwise Ranni plot of NotBK is about what exactly?).
Realizing that I have been reading the relationship between Marika and her empyrean children entirely wrong.
This is a relantionship that comes pre-strained. Every child a potential threat, who you want to keep on a leash, whose lives need to be carefully guided lest they overthrow you.
And honestly, this reading just makes so much more sense. Ranni grows up with her Shadow among the Carians, taught Sorcery by Rennala (and others). Only formally being inducted into demigodhood later in life. She had a life as an empyrean outside of Marika's immediate household (contrast with the Twins, who also interestingly don't have shadows).
Is Ranni's very existence a problem? The Ranni vs. Marika conflict isn't because of something that happened later in life (eg. Godwyn marriage theory), but the fact that an empyrean was raised by someone else? Contrast how Miquella was raised as a Fundamentalist (ie. within the limits of the existing GO). Malenia obv self excludes by her own choice.
As per. Ranni's Dark Moon -> "This moon was encountered by a young Ranni, led by the hand of her mother, Rennala". The Moon that Ranni uses as the basis of her Order is something that came from maternal upbringing.
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