Bloody Needle
I'm a llama!
Heh. Bear with me for a sec. It relates to the coincidentally-resurfaced old thread about the structure of the berserk universe.
So I noticed something funny the other day which I hadn't picked up on in prior readings: that the hawk-pole caudesseus symbol used by the Church and the "Rakuin" were the same shape...the brand has the caudesseus pattern of a center line "wrapped" by two helically-twisting ones, which in two-D comes out as a two (or more) diamond shapes joined at vertices in a line. And the little three-headed prong that mounts the center line is the hawk.
Seriously folks, if someone can post the images of the religious symbol and the brand side-by-side, you'd see what I mean.
Which led me to wonder if the brand was a stylized version of any IRL occult pictograms...and honestly I think the answer is that it is a modified version of the Tree of Life figure used in the Jewish/Christian mysticism.
If you haven't heard of this go look here for an explanation (it's what I did; I'm no great shakes at the Western theological wangdangdoodle) --
http://www.witchesrealm.com/magic/qb1.html
Furthermore, the Tree of Life is divided up into three domains with two discreet boundaries, which are worth mentioning because they fit so well with Griffith's Venn-overlap model of the Berserk universe. The supernal triad equates to what is described as the "astral world." It is seperated by from the "triad of the formative world" by the Abyss, and that in turn is seperated by the Veil from the remaining four lowest sepiroth. In other words, three overlapping circles on a line.
The way I see it, the supernal triad of Kether, Binah, and Chokmah are the end point of the three lines forming the crown - or iconic hawk - at the top of the Brand.
The formative world triad is composed of Tiphareth - which is the point where the three lines of the top of brand intersect - along with Geburah and Chesed, which are the "heads" of the caudesseus.
Finally the remaining four Sephira - Yesod, Netzrach, and Hod, and Malkuth - formed the diamond shaped base.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to claim that Miura is using Cabbalic ideas about how the ten individual Sephira and the paths between them constitute a mystical understanding of human experience of life, but just maybe he's using the model of the Ten Sephiroth and the Tree of Life as a kick-start point for his own metaphysics in the plot. Supporting evidence would be the recent kicking-about that the word "qlippoth" has received in the Troll plotline.
So I noticed something funny the other day which I hadn't picked up on in prior readings: that the hawk-pole caudesseus symbol used by the Church and the "Rakuin" were the same shape...the brand has the caudesseus pattern of a center line "wrapped" by two helically-twisting ones, which in two-D comes out as a two (or more) diamond shapes joined at vertices in a line. And the little three-headed prong that mounts the center line is the hawk.
Seriously folks, if someone can post the images of the religious symbol and the brand side-by-side, you'd see what I mean.
Which led me to wonder if the brand was a stylized version of any IRL occult pictograms...and honestly I think the answer is that it is a modified version of the Tree of Life figure used in the Jewish/Christian mysticism.
If you haven't heard of this go look here for an explanation (it's what I did; I'm no great shakes at the Western theological wangdangdoodle) --
http://www.witchesrealm.com/magic/qb1.html
Furthermore, the Tree of Life is divided up into three domains with two discreet boundaries, which are worth mentioning because they fit so well with Griffith's Venn-overlap model of the Berserk universe. The supernal triad equates to what is described as the "astral world." It is seperated by from the "triad of the formative world" by the Abyss, and that in turn is seperated by the Veil from the remaining four lowest sepiroth. In other words, three overlapping circles on a line.
The way I see it, the supernal triad of Kether, Binah, and Chokmah are the end point of the three lines forming the crown - or iconic hawk - at the top of the Brand.
The formative world triad is composed of Tiphareth - which is the point where the three lines of the top of brand intersect - along with Geburah and Chesed, which are the "heads" of the caudesseus.
Finally the remaining four Sephira - Yesod, Netzrach, and Hod, and Malkuth - formed the diamond shaped base.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to claim that Miura is using Cabbalic ideas about how the ten individual Sephira and the paths between them constitute a mystical understanding of human experience of life, but just maybe he's using the model of the Ten Sephiroth and the Tree of Life as a kick-start point for his own metaphysics in the plot. Supporting evidence would be the recent kicking-about that the word "qlippoth" has received in the Troll plotline.