Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140918010005/@comment-6192846-20141227005049

Daisy8000 wrote: 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. Ōkami/Ookami is heavily based in Shinto mythology. In this case, I can't think of a particular legend it's based on. It has a lot of different name origins and themes in-game being played upon.

However, mothy's freely admitted being heavily inspired by video games before (most recently Papers, Please! = Journey of Two Mages) so it's completely possible he's played the game and got inspiration from there.

But, I think it should be acknowledged that the term for "ark" being used for Sin is the "Noah's Ark" variant specifically and that this entire passage of the prologue is taken from the Book of Genesis in the Levin Bible.

Swap out that word with "Christian" and you basically have the same general thing being talked about imo.