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Juubi, Shinju and Kaguya parallel: The Divine Comedy
A while back, I theorized the nine tomoes of Kaguya and the Shinju's eye referenced the nine circles of hell from Dante's Inferno.
Low and behold, we are now in an Inferno dimension in the manga lols.
Now, I believe the three incarnations of the god tree may represent the Divine Comedy as a whole.
The juubi I believe references Inferno, as it's form is an amalgamation of beasts like the sentinels and inhabitants of hell and is the result of man's sin, which hell represents. It also possesses the one eye and portrays a great beast or destroyer like Satan or Lucifer who is confined at the lowest portion of hell. You may recall the gedo mazou was bound in chains and hidden underground by Madara and Akatsuki.
The Shinju I believe represents Mount Purgatory as it is towering just like the mountain, is natural to the material world and possesses seven terraces of suffering and reincarnation. A representation of the seven deadly sins which I believe also parallel the six paths since they represent the six realms of reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism. The seventh one being Nagato as stated by Konan.
Kaguya of course represents Paradise where god resides and where humans journey to through inferno and purgatory. And guess what, it possesses nine realms just as Inferno possesses nine rings lols. Each is called a sphere and represents the moon and the planets.
The Divine Comedy has been referenced in other works as well. Most notably as The Warring Triad in Final Fantasy Six. The Warring Triad were the three gods of the world who forged it and created the creatures that all magic comes from, the Espers, aka the summoned monsters of the ff 6 universe, made from the humans and animals caught in between their warring crossfires. They enslaved these espers, but eventually realized their endless fighting began destroying the world, thus they sealed themselves in stone and gave free will to the espers and asked them to look over them so that no one would ever release them and use their power. The main antagonist of ff 6 however, the evil mad mage Kekfa, through his schemes found the statues, rearranged their positions, which led to cataclysmic repercussions on the planet, absorbed their power for himself and ultimately became the god of Magic and ruler of the world.
The Warring Triad take the forms of a goddess named Sofia, a wraith called Fiend and a demon called Doom.
Some often also compare the Divine Comedy and the Warring Triad to the three Goddesses from The Legend of Zelda. Din, Goddess of Power, Nayru, Goddess of Wisdom, and Farore, the Goddess of Courage. Din's power referencing god's power of destruction and creation, which Gandorf's triforce personifies. Nayru's wisdom referencing the experiences of all the seven terraces of purgatory, which Zelda's Triforce personifies (and she ironically being the seventh sage) and Farore referencing Dante's courage to make it through Hell/Inferno, which Link's triforce personifies.
A while back, I theorized the nine tomoes of Kaguya and the Shinju's eye referenced the nine circles of hell from Dante's Inferno.
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Low and behold, we are now in an Inferno dimension in the manga lols.
Now, I believe the three incarnations of the god tree may represent the Divine Comedy as a whole.
The juubi I believe references Inferno, as it's form is an amalgamation of beasts like the sentinels and inhabitants of hell and is the result of man's sin, which hell represents. It also possesses the one eye and portrays a great beast or destroyer like Satan or Lucifer who is confined at the lowest portion of hell. You may recall the gedo mazou was bound in chains and hidden underground by Madara and Akatsuki.
The Shinju I believe represents Mount Purgatory as it is towering just like the mountain, is natural to the material world and possesses seven terraces of suffering and reincarnation. A representation of the seven deadly sins which I believe also parallel the six paths since they represent the six realms of reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism. The seventh one being Nagato as stated by Konan.
Kaguya of course represents Paradise where god resides and where humans journey to through inferno and purgatory. And guess what, it possesses nine realms just as Inferno possesses nine rings lols. Each is called a sphere and represents the moon and the planets.
The Divine Comedy has been referenced in other works as well. Most notably as The Warring Triad in Final Fantasy Six. The Warring Triad were the three gods of the world who forged it and created the creatures that all magic comes from, the Espers, aka the summoned monsters of the ff 6 universe, made from the humans and animals caught in between their warring crossfires. They enslaved these espers, but eventually realized their endless fighting began destroying the world, thus they sealed themselves in stone and gave free will to the espers and asked them to look over them so that no one would ever release them and use their power. The main antagonist of ff 6 however, the evil mad mage Kekfa, through his schemes found the statues, rearranged their positions, which led to cataclysmic repercussions on the planet, absorbed their power for himself and ultimately became the god of Magic and ruler of the world.
The Warring Triad take the forms of a goddess named Sofia, a wraith called Fiend and a demon called Doom.
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Some often also compare the Divine Comedy and the Warring Triad to the three Goddesses from The Legend of Zelda. Din, Goddess of Power, Nayru, Goddess of Wisdom, and Farore, the Goddess of Courage. Din's power referencing god's power of destruction and creation, which Gandorf's triforce personifies. Nayru's wisdom referencing the experiences of all the seven terraces of purgatory, which Zelda's Triforce personifies (and she ironically being the seventh sage) and Farore referencing Dante's courage to make it through Hell/Inferno, which Link's triforce personifies.
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