Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140918010005/@comment-6966973-20141226200825

Aside from the influences of "Noah's Ark" in the Ark that Sickle and the other gods used, is it possible that the idea behind it is also influenced by the same myth that inspired the "Ark of Yamato"?

I'm searching to find the specific origin of that story, but it's from the game "Okami", and it has some large parallels with the Ark used to go from Period to Period. In Okami, the Moon Tribe (futuristic aliens) used the Ark of Yamato to flee from demons that destroyed their livelyhood, and presumably the entirity of the tribe, sans three or four people. The Ark of Yamato is used again by one of the survivors of the Moon Tribe and the Celestial Beings in order to escape the Celestial Plains, which had been overrun by demons.

However, the source of the demons, "Yami" (闇, "Darkness"), also took the Ark of Yamato, and started spreading evil on Earth where the Celestials escaped to.

Basically, it's parallel to what Sickle, Held, and the others did to escape Malice in the First and Second Periods, with Malice probably on board in the jump between the Second and Third Periods, then becoming HERs, probably.

Yeah, I'm comparing this to a video game instead of a religion like everyone else, but I'm fairly certain that it comes from Shinto mythology? I don't recall whether or not that myth ingame comes from anything specific in actual historical mythology, but it was an interesting parallel and I thought I'd point it out.

Okay, I'll stop with the word vomit now.