Greek- there monsters(harpy, chimera, etc.) cant think of any more but i had more
o! this surprised me alot
Most of you are familiar with Aeris from FF7. Well there is an Eris in greek mythology, who is the goddess of discord, which means she caused alot of disputes. In ff7 she caused disputes between cloud and the gang, shinra, the turks, and sephiroth.
Norse- ok first there is Odin, the norse believe he was the god of the gods, and a familair summon in ff. Then theres Fenrir, the fenris wolf, a giant wolf that odin had to fight. And my favorite, Ragnarok, a name used for swords in ff, and also the transportaion ship in ff8. Ragnarok was the final fight between all the gods of the norse. And last, theres midgar, the beginning point in ff7. I believe the name was borrowed from midgard, the middle level of the norse universe, which i found weird
Add on if you would like, and correct me if i was wrong about any of the things i said above
The Sabine Hills are sacred hills outside of Rome.
There are a lot more, but those are two of the lesser known facts about the FF series…
Shiva is a god of one religion
yes! i forgot shiva is a hindu god of some sort
and also Tantalus from FFIX was a greek who thought he was better than the gods (or something like that) and he was tortured in the underworld, he was chained to a kneedeep pool surrounded by trees with fruit, and everytime he reached for the fruit it would fall from the stem into the water and disappear
and basically ragnarok is the end of the world, Midgard is the earth realm, Asgard is the god realm.
And as it may speak for it self, The phoenix is another mythological beast (suprise suprise)
Square always uses mythologies for every FF which makes the game more interesting and deeper that most other RPG’s
This is’nt really mytoholgy, but Mythril is taken from the Tolkien books, but in his books it’s spelt Mithril.
Actually Quezacotl was’nt Aztec (your going to hate me so much, for sounding like a smart arse), he was Mayan.
Another thing that I wonder is, in the Hindu religion Shiva is male, but in the FF’s he/she is clearly portraied as a female, can someone clear that up for me.
Abbadon(or anyway you spell it) is from Christian mythology.
Behemoth is from Christian Mythology as well as Leviathan(the dragons, demons, beasts, whatever in the bible)
Dragoons are from German culture, particularly world war 2.
Gilgamesh isnt with Thor, he is from Mesopotamian/Sumerian mythology. Along the lines of Ishtar and such.
Ifrit is from Efreet or Ifreet, an old devil trickster in eastern religion/mythology. Its an elemental beast, like Djinni.
The Minotaur is obviously from Greek Mythology.
Seifer/Sypher means dualistic.
Cerberus is the mythical Hell Hound who guarded the Gates of Hell/Gehenna/whatever in Greek Mythology.
Sphinxaur is obviously Egyptian Myth.
Carbuncle and Tiamat are both from something but i am not certain what.(will research and edit later)
Eden is also Christian myth. Particularly obvious because of the Garden syllogism.
Malboro is a poke at Marlboro ciggarettes(Malboro’s Bad Breath attack)
Siren- I remeber learning about accient at primary school and theirs a tale that when some soldiers sail past siren you get hypnotised.
I looked on encarta at school and its got loads of stuff on this sort of thing if you have it you shoud have a look.
Leviathan- Is a huge sea monster told by pirates from around about the 17th century.
Siren- I remeber learning about accient at primary school and theirs a tale that when some soldiers sail past siren you get hypnotised.
I looked on encarta at school and its got loads of stuff on this sort of thing if you have it you shoud have a look.
leviathan was first the beast that jonah was inside of during his run away phase back in the old testament(some say jonah and the whale)
I’m reading The Odyssey by Homer in my English class. Hmm…funny…