@PiePierrot

1 year ago

Oh boy, another thing for me to overanalyze! 😂Okay so here's my interpretation based on this video and the transcription generously provided by Azphelion (plus a bit of research): There is a religion consisting of 6 goddesses (Sol, Luna, Gaia, Terra, Venus, Hera, and Minerva). There is also a 7th goddess, simply called "Goddess" who is the primary goddess and ruler of the pantheon. There are also 6 oracles (I dunno if they're really called "oracles" or not but that's what I'm calling them), one for each Goddess. Niyan (the Lover) is the Oracle of Gaia, represented by the earth symbol. Cicely (the Skull) is the Oracle of Terra, also represented by the earth symbol. It's interesting that both goddesses and oracles are represented by the same alchemical symbol. Terra and Gaia are also both names for the Earth. Maybe Terra and Gaia are two sides of the same goddess? In any case, Ara (the Spider) is the Oracle of Luna, represented by the moon symbol (obviously). Hydra (the Serpent) pretends to be the Oracle of Hera, represented by the Jupiter symbol. He/She (can't tell what gender) is actually the corrupter, the Fallen One's avatar/oracle that drags each of the other oracles down into sin. Amarose (the Flower) is the Oracle of Venus, represented by, well, the Venus symbol. Sage (the Conquerer) is the Oracle of Minerva, represented by the Saturn symbol. She also appears to be a knight or perhaps even a queen, fighting for some fictional country or maybe religion? For some reason Mercury, Mars, and Uranus don't appear to have associated goddesses or oracles. Sol aka the Sun is one of the goddesses but there is no oracle for her for some reason. Maybe there never was or maybe she died? It's interesting to note, too, that the symbol that keeps appearing (for example at 0:48 and again at 1:52) is one of two symbols for Pluto. I had to look this one up lol. Pluto is the Roman god of the Underworld and Wealth, associated with death and the afterlife. After the "opening", at 0:32, we see and hear a male figure that looks suspiciously like Hydra. This is the only male-sung line in the entire song near as I can tell. Judging by the voice I'm guess that's Gezeus Quiryst lol. There are hands that look like claws reaching towards him, likely the hands of the fallen oracles. The rest of the song tells how they all fell. He sings "Welcome us with your light" which is then echoed by Cicely and followed by "grace the morning sky". I assume this is a common prayer/hymn within this fictional religion. We then see Amarose kissing and hugging Hydra from behind and the Venus symbol change to Pluto symbolizing her corruption by him. The lines "dancing, discordant" and "spinning in retrograde" further suggest corruption and chaos because in astrology when a planet is in retrograde, it is said that there is a lot of chaos and confusion. It also creates chaos and confusion in whichever house/zodiac sign the planet is in. Presumably he either kills her and absorbs her into his body or they somehow fuse? I'll explain why I think this later. Another interesting thing to note, at 1:05 we see Goddess surrounded by many hands, almost like a halo. The hands are all forming different symbols representing the different goddesses which makes sense if she is the main goddess. But it also reminds me a bit of the cherubim in Islam who throng the throne of God, and the Hecatoncheires ("Hundred-Handed Ones") who were the children of Uranus and Gaia and helped to overthrow the Titans. The lines "born from sea and the waves" I think alludes to how Venus was born from the seafoam of (I kid you not) Neptune's balls.The part about "crossing Sol's burning gaze/Venus sets ablaze" makes me think her story somehow ties into Sol's and being set ablaze could be literal (like she was burnt alive, maybe even on a pyre for heresy) or metaphorical because of how she became corrupted by "the devil" who is traditionally associated with fire (as in, the fires of Hell). It could also be an allusion to Icarus, who flew too close to the sun and it melted his wax wings and made him fall into the ocean. The words accompanying the Oracle of Venus in the beginning "A black diamond/Was this Lathrisian queen" suggests she might've been a queen at some point? Not sure where Lathrisia is though or if it even exists? Next we see Sage the Conqueror, the Oracle of Minerva (goddess of wisdom) wearing armor looking like she's plotting something or staring down an enemy. She is surrounded by swords and what appears to be a dragon crest in blood appears in front of her. Not certain of the meaning of this, apart from making her intimidating and like a knight. Then we see the Oracle of Terra with Hydra kneeling and smiling before her. The words "The lure of the devil will ring soft and sweet. Be not tempted" appear on screen as a warning (presumably for followers of this faith) to beware "the devil" aka Hydra. Hydra is a wolf in sheep's clothing, as shown by how in the next frame his hand and mouth are bloodied and he is frowning with a halo of daggers around his head and pool of blood at his feet. Then we see Cicely kneeling as if in prayer, crying and in the next shot with blood on her hands and the smiling head of Niyan in the background, cracked like a porcelain doll and her head appears to have been torn off her body. Perhaps Cicely murdered her on Hydra's suggestion and feels guilty? Then we see Sage with some others in the background, brandishing weapons towards Hydra. Sage swears to protect "you" with all her life then begs for forgiveness. Perhaps either because she failed to protect that person/her people or perhaps because she succumbed to temptation? After that, it's very quick and difficult to see, but the body of Ara is shown hanging limply from a spiderweb, and there are butterflies upon her perhaps symbolizing how she is like a butterfly that was caught in Hydra's web. Then there's Amarose, who is lying with her arms spread out surrounded by blood, either having burnt to death on a stake or being killed in some other way. In the beginning it almost looked like she was chained, so maybe she was chained and then killed? Then there's the severed head of Niyan, the silhouette of Cicely surrounded by spider lilies (which in Asia are associated with death iirc) and Hydra with his snakes wrapped around her saying "your hair looks like moonlight". Then there are the words "Messiah, Salvation/Offering the world salvation through slaughter" which suggests he has built up some sort of cult that involves killing people? It then shows what looks like a young boy with white hair, possibly Hydra before he became corrupt? He looks a little like him, and he's holding a heart with an eye on it. The Goddess with a hole in her chest also has an eye there, maybe he stole the Goddess's heart and that is how he became corrupted? I think that's the Goddess behind him, at least. She has the Sol symbol on her chest, maybe she was the original Oracle of Sol? She also has those eyes on her body like the Phoenix earlier and later on? Finally Hydra manages to kill (and presumably absorb) Sage, stabbing her through the chest. Interestingly she seems to have a lily theme going on throughout the song and there's a couple plus on on her eye here. Lilies symbolize purity, but they are also often associated with funerals (at least in Japan). The snake stabs Sage through the heart (I'm sensing a pattern here), staining the white lilies red. The Goddess is shown again but she is disfigured now, a horrific abomination, perhaps because she too has been corrupted or perhaps it is the final form of Hydra plus all the Oracles combined? Maybe the Goddess was all of them before she separated into different deities? But now Hydra has forcefully reunited them, becoming the Goddess but in a very nightmarish form. His/Her right index and ring fingers are severed, as well as her right hand. Her head has been cut off, and her left hand is sliced in half. The right index finger and ring finger, in some cultures, are the fingers that wedding rings go on, so them being severed could be symbolic of a union gone awry or perhaps literal. Maybe Hydra's followers or the Goddess's remaining faithful followers rallied together and killed/dismembered Hydra-Goddess? At the end we see Cicely again, crying and holding Hydra (unclear whether he is dead or not). She says to "pray for deliverance, question not the form it arrives in" insinuating that the new Hydra-Goddess is the ruler of the pantheon and regardless of right or wrong, he/she is the only path to salvation. That or Cicely is trying to convince others of this. Qiru appears to be the younger version of Hydra, maybe that was his real name? The Phoenix might be the reborn Hydra/Qiru, the ascended corrupt God he/she has become. Maybe he/she didn't become the Goddess? Maybe they became the Phoenix? My brain hurts.

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