05-21-2017, 03:24 PM
I want to add that I started playing OoT again after thinking about how it relates to LOO. And I went past this statue in the Hyrule Temple gardens you go through to get to Child Zelda:
https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/zel...0218000858
And that got me thinking "what if thats a real statue".
So I did some searching and found this:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/marb...?s=170667a
They have similar characteristics. They both look toward their right. The right arm is near the chest and the left arm is near the stomach. Both characters are robed.
The IRL statue is of Emperor Julian who has been theorized to be associated with Neoplatanism:
1. Link to equating Julian with Neoplatanism:
"According to one theory (that of G.W. Bowersock in particular), Julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also Neoplatonism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_(em...ous_issues"
2. Neoplatanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism#Teachings
In Neoplatanism, this is a general teaching:
"One of the characteristic features of Plotinus' system, which was also taken up by subsequent Neoplatonists, is the doctrine of "the One" beyond being. For Plotinus, the first principle of reality is an utterly simple, ineffable, unknowable subsistence which is both the creative source and the teleological end of all existing things. Although, properly speaking, there is no name appropriate for the first principle, the most adequate names are "the One" or "the Good". The One is so simple that it cannot even be said to exist or to be a being. Rather, the creative principle of all things is beyond being, a notion which is derived from Book VI of the Republic,[14] when, in the course of his famous analogy of the sun, Plato says that the Good is beyond being (ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐσίας) in power and dignity.[15] In Plotinus' model of reality, the One is the cause of the rest of reality, which takes the form of two subsequent "hypostases", Nous and Soul. Although Neoplatonists after Plotinus adhered to his cosmological scheme in its most general outline, later developments in the tradition also departed substantively from Plotinus' teachings in regards to significant philosophical issues, such as the nature of evil. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism#Teachings"
This teaching in particular is very similar to the definition of the Law of One: "Although, properly speaking, there is no name appropriate for the first principle, the most adequate names are "the One" or "the Good". The One is so simple that it cannot even be said to exist or to be a being. Rather, the creative principle of all things is beyond being. . . "
Im a little stunned if that statue is a depiction of Emperor Julian.
https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/zel...0218000858
And that got me thinking "what if thats a real statue".
So I did some searching and found this:
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/marb...?s=170667a
They have similar characteristics. They both look toward their right. The right arm is near the chest and the left arm is near the stomach. Both characters are robed.
The IRL statue is of Emperor Julian who has been theorized to be associated with Neoplatanism:
1. Link to equating Julian with Neoplatanism:
"According to one theory (that of G.W. Bowersock in particular), Julian's paganism was highly eccentric and atypical because it was heavily influenced by an esoteric approach to Platonic philosophy sometimes identified as theurgy and also Neoplatonism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_(em...ous_issues"
2. Neoplatanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism#Teachings
In Neoplatanism, this is a general teaching:
"One of the characteristic features of Plotinus' system, which was also taken up by subsequent Neoplatonists, is the doctrine of "the One" beyond being. For Plotinus, the first principle of reality is an utterly simple, ineffable, unknowable subsistence which is both the creative source and the teleological end of all existing things. Although, properly speaking, there is no name appropriate for the first principle, the most adequate names are "the One" or "the Good". The One is so simple that it cannot even be said to exist or to be a being. Rather, the creative principle of all things is beyond being, a notion which is derived from Book VI of the Republic,[14] when, in the course of his famous analogy of the sun, Plato says that the Good is beyond being (ἐπέκεινα τῆς οὐσίας) in power and dignity.[15] In Plotinus' model of reality, the One is the cause of the rest of reality, which takes the form of two subsequent "hypostases", Nous and Soul. Although Neoplatonists after Plotinus adhered to his cosmological scheme in its most general outline, later developments in the tradition also departed substantively from Plotinus' teachings in regards to significant philosophical issues, such as the nature of evil. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatonism#Teachings"
This teaching in particular is very similar to the definition of the Law of One: "Although, properly speaking, there is no name appropriate for the first principle, the most adequate names are "the One" or "the Good". The One is so simple that it cannot even be said to exist or to be a being. Rather, the creative principle of all things is beyond being. . . "
Im a little stunned if that statue is a depiction of Emperor Julian.