The word "rod" also doesn't really relate to whips
I’m about these. Please, look here, points 4 and 5:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rod
Even if its not this Pulsa DeNura, maybe its just metaphorical “blaze rod”, like punishment or something? Because Schierke mentions hellfire and purgatory here and Daka its a demons.
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Yeah, literally she drives a wheel through them, borrowed powers from the spirits, through shamanism, as was the case in Enoch.)
Sorry, I don't think so either. Miura was the one writing the titles, and this specific denomination appears in three different places. Besides, what does this have to do with anything? Daiba's title translates to "Wizard General". No relation to self-consciousness.
Copy that. As I wrote, it's just a “what if”. I'm sorry.
Ok but... what about it? He wasn't trying to repair the world around him, he sacrificed it to create a new, "perfect" one. Pretty big difference.
So, if anything, I will explain only as I understood and interpreted it.
In this process (Tikkun olam), after the world has lost its harmony, there is a “repairing of the world” that will be handled by the Messiah and divine light (
light is the instrument here).
Now to the manga, I'm sorry. I don't mean that Beherit Apostle literally wanted to repair the world himself. Yes, he sacrificed the world that was ugly to him (aka “lost harmony”) so that this "Messiah" (Griffith) could come and “repair” the world with his “divine light” (even though it is darkness at the same time). To create a “perfect” one.
Again, this is just how I understood it and interpreted it.
I'm sorry, I don't really see a relation. How is the sinner's story similar to Mozgus? It seems unrelated to me.
Clearly the episode's title refers to the fact the beherit apostle descends like a spider on its thread. I guess you could argue he's giving Mozgus a second chance by transforming him and his disciples, but the two scenarios are still dissimilar. Equating them is quite a stretch. Overall I don't think you can conclusively say the episode title is a nod to that story.
Yes, of course it is obvious that the title of the episode originally refers to Beherit Apostle himself, I didn't deny that.
To begin with, I will try to summarize the story.
The Buddha in paradise by the shore of the Lotus Pond looks down at hell and notices there a robber who had done many bad things, that's why he is in hell, but he had one good deed on his account. One day he took pity on the spider and did not crush it and Buddha decided to try to save it from hell and lowered a spider web to the bottom of hell. He saw this web and started climbing up, but there was no end in sight. Other sinners started climbing up after him, the thread rips and they fall back down into that dark abyss, hell.
Now to the manga. Mozgus did a lot of bad things too, though mostly not with his own hands, but still. But once upon a time he also did a good deed and took in people who were rejected by the world (those weak little spiders).
Next. Beherit Apostle here plays the role of both "Buddha and spider, and he himself goes down into “hell”, if I may say so, and “stretched out his web” to Mozgus. But at the end he fell back into “hell,” into the dark abyss, as the others began "to cling to him". (Aside from the Nietzschean theme here).
Of course the story isn't one-to-one, which I sort of didn't claim, but are there similarities or is it just my imagination playing out?
I wrote all this from memory, if I got it wrong, I apologize.