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You’ve Got a Fiend in Me

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Nathan

I wrote a bit about the Four Fiends from Final Fantasy before, but I’ve since thought of more to say. Four of the main bosses in the first games, they’re associated with the four classical elements, and are causing the destruction … Continue reading →

Posted in Babylonian, Buddhism, Comics, Dragon Quest, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, Focus on the Foes, Games, Gender, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Humor, Judaism, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Religion, Technology, Video Games, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 8-bit theater, ahriman, archfiends, bahamut, baramos, barbariccia, cagnazzo, cecil harvey, cerberus, chaos, classical elements, dante alighieri, demons, dhuran, dinosaurs, divine comedy, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragon quest vi, dragons, dualhead hydra, dungeons and dragons, dwarves, echidna, elemental fiends, enuma elish, excalibur, final fantasy iii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy mystic quest, final fantasy stranger of paradise, final fantasy vi, flamerus rex, four fiends, four heavenly kings, game boy advance, gardner fox, garland, gary gygax, general beatrix, golbez, golems, guardians of terra, gutsco, hans christian andersen, hydra, ice golem, inferno, kaimeiji yuu, kain highwind, kali, kary, kingdom of baron, kraken, kuja, land turtle, lich, light warriors, lilith, lufenia, malebranche, mara, marduk, marilith, mermaids, mortamor, mount ordeals, nagas, orthros, pazuzu, phylactery, quena quen, ramayana, robots, rubicante, salamanders, scarmiglione, siddhartha gautama, skullrus rex, stone golem, tataka, the little mermaid, the sword of the sorcerer, tiamat, time loops, titans, twinhead wyvern, two-headed dragon, ultros, vile four, wyverns, yang fang leiden, zidane tribal, zoma, zuh | 4 Comments

Forget That Girl

Posted on March 26, 2022 by Nathan

Today, I’d like to talk about Meng Po, a Chinese goddess who makes an appearance in Katie Zhao’s Fallen Hero. She’s a resident of Diyu, the underworld, which combines Taoist and Buddhist traditions. Meng Po makes a magic liquid that … Continue reading →

Tagged aeneid, afterlife, death, demons, diyu, emperor qin shi huangdi, emperor shun, emperor yao, fallen hero, fan xiliang, great wall of china, hypnos, katie zhao, lethe river, meng jiang, meng po, mi hun tang, mnemosyne, myth of er, new age, nome king, orphic mysteries, plato, qi liang, reincarnation, republic, siddhartha gautama, souls, suicide, underworld, virgil, water of oblivion | 4 Comments

The Yama Yama Man

Posted on February 11, 2012 by Nathan

It’s pretty well known that Buddhism started in India, but eventually became much more popular in eastern Asia. Also, while Siddhartha Gautama apparently started Buddhism as an alternative to Hinduism, it came to take on many aspects of the earlier … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Chinese, Hinduism, Mythology, Religion | Tagged hell, journey to the west, monkey, siddhartha gautama, sun wukong, yama, yen-lo-wang | 5 Comments

This Buddha Was Made for Enlightenin’

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Nathan

It’s pretty well known that the founder of the Buddhist faith was a guy named Siddhartha Gautama, but how much do we really know about him? Well, not too much for sure. As with many figures known mostly for religious … Continue reading →

Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Historical Personages, History, India, Religion | Tagged bodhi tree, budai, buddha, communism, dalai lama, demons, eightfold path, fat buddha, four noble truths, hotei, karl marx, mahamaya, mahaprajapati, revelation, satan, shakya, shuddodana gautama, siddhartha gautama, soviet union, vishnu, yasodhara, zen | 19 Comments

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