OoT and LOO session 75 line 39

[Lyok0]

Ocarina of Time was quite a journey...

I kind of just wanted to say.

Navi isn't tge wisdom aspect as much as the Spiritual Guide.  Still her infamous 'Hey! Listen!' line can match up with how spiritual guides might always be trying to help us but we just can't tell until we Listen.

Zelda is the holder of the Triforce of Wisdom.  Yet she is inexplicably not afflicted with any evil.  Wisdom appears to be 'pure' alongide Courage/Love.

Then we have Ganondorf, with the evil desires, he was divinely gifted with the Triforce of Power, as if to say his evil was a necessary test and trial to be taken before the completion of the Triforce.

On top of this his power is ridiculously OP, his magic is dangerous, and he's maniacally bent on ruling Hyrule without ever offering a reason why.

You have the 6 temples then Ganon's tower.
The most interesting temples are those of Time, Shadow, and Water.
The Temple of Time is literally a heavenly place mixed with the greatest dangers.  Its a play on requiring responsibility with great power.
The Temple of Shadow is a giant play on the Shadow World that tricks us all and REQUIRES faith and determination (and courage) to survive through.

But then we have the infamous Water Temple.  The Water Temple is the Green Ray equivalent.  It takes much practice and time spent getting to know that temple to get through it much in the same way with the heart.
Near its end as you walk through a misty room of still water surrounding a dark tree, your reflection takes form and your shadow self reveales itself.  Its stronger, faster, smarter, but only has a sword and shield.  Its a shell of yourself, limited but because it is stronger than you.

This temple also marks Link being offered a wife by the sage herself.  Love abounds this temple.

Link is the holder of the Triforce of Courage.  This can be synonymous to Love as Love takes Great Courage.  Link is also symbolic metaphysically of reality shifts, time line cohesions, and the abiity to manifest ones reality the most cearly through Love more so than any other energy.

Link is also The Fool archetype, his spiritual journey he takes blindly every time.

Courage is arguably stronger than Power, because it is more resilient.  Power controls, Courage accepts.  Because Love requires Courage, Linkis the Key to the entire divine plan.  He's the most important player which is why he has LITERALLY realms worth of aid from fairies to sages to communities of fire, water, wind, earth...Light, Dark.  He uses vibration to alter reality (the Ocarina), he uses tools to get through his trials (life lessons), and he makes a wide array of relationships with both good and evil characters refecting his unity position.

Link is literally a play on Unity in name and character.  He is us, and we all have his power.

Zelda herself however appears to ironically be the most powerful, she has the divine realms of power at her use magically, but appears to lack the Courage to properly use them.  She can imbue Link with the one piece of equipment that can stop Ganondorf, but throughout the games has switched off being the user of the Light Arrows.
In Twilight Princess you had to align her aim for her.
In Wind Waker she was self sufficient until Ganon knocked her out.
In Ocarina of Time she doesn't even use it herself.

She can shapeshift like Ganondorf but chooses more sophisticated forms where Ganon is more feral and animalistic in his forms.  Both have powerful magic that can stop each other, but Ganondorf always has the upper hand in confidence and brutality whereas Zelda is shy and gentle.

Then there's Link.  He's an odd mixture of Zelda and Ganondorf.  He's confident but gentle, strong but shy, brutal yet restrained.  Has magic but is a novice, yet has better physical prowess than Ganondorf, but isn't as agile as Zelda, can't shapeshift but has an arsenal of tools for any situation.

When the Triforce comes into manifestation, destiny itself is completed, and the holder of the completed Triforce has immense nigh divine capabilities at their disposal over destiny.  Still, the divine realms mix it up occasionally.

Fun fact:  The Legend of Zelda is a play on Parallel Realities in a Multiverse.  Each game is a slant on the same concepts.  Chances are they all exist contiguously side by side all overlooked by a core source of divinity, the Divine Realms that are shared across the games and provide the Triforce as a sort of Key to each instance of each Universe/Game.

(Really want to play 4 Swords now...)

Thanks for making me consciously aware of this.  Totally going to one day replay OoT and make a big post on all of the real life spiritual reflections in it.

Wow, you used that symbolism really well. I definitely see a lot more of the symbolism links between the temples and understandings of chakra.

I was debating with myself to equate Navi or Zelda primarily with Wisdom but your mention of Navi as more the spiritual guide makes more sense to me. Therefore, Zelda is the most appropriate symbol of Wisdom. I also just realized (after you mention that Zelda transforms) that Zelda is actually Sheik and is secretly with Link in most of his adult version. Because of Sheik, Zelda definitely plays more of a role than what I had realized at first. Navi, while perhaps containing wisdom herself, is the spiritual guide for Link in the same way that our own spirit in the mind/body/spirit complex is our own guide.

Simplistically:
Zelda = Wisdom

Navi = Spirit

Originally thinking about all these connections for sure makes me want to go and replay it as well.

Thanks for showing me a bit more about all this.