Examining Allegory and Symbolism Found throughout Berserk(starting from the very beginning)

[ThomasB]

While Berserk can be read and interpreted in the literal sense, Berserk's ultimate essence and meaning does not lie in the literal interpretation.

There are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend. This is one reason why all religions employ symbolic language or images.

Miura's extensive use of well-established symbolic/allegorical language is obvious and undeniable. Examining this extensive symbolic/allegorical language is necessary to grasp Berserk's ultimate meaning and essence.



First Image:

Image of Baphomet. Greek; Baphe and metis, meaning “absorption of knowledge.”

1. Baphomet represents all opposites and equalities in the universe, similar to the Yin and Yang. Baphomet represents the perfect and ideal human. It embodies everything in the universe. The mastery of the spiritual and physical world represents complete religious enlightenment.
2. The pentagram on Baphomet's forehead represents the ascent of matter into spirit; the four lowest points represent earth, fire, water, and air, while the top point represents the soul. Thus, soul is above the physical world, a truly enlightened being.
3. Baphomet points upwards with the right hand; this is a sign of Saturn, a sign of death and resurrection.
4. The staff of The Caduceus: On Baphomet's stomach is an old Greek symbol of two serpents entwined around a staff that Hermes carried. Hermetic axiom of reality can be articulated in the phrase of Carol Quigley's "tension of development." Two poles (antipodes) of forces oppose one another through their essential structure and create new charges, as Hegel, the German philosopher, discussed in "The Phenomenology of Spirit": thesis-antithesis and synthesis. Such is the Hermetic principle of evolutionary development. Polarity and dynamic tension as the motor of evolution.
5. “Erotic energy”(Censored/cut most of it out) is symbolic of the energy of procreation, birth, and life, in the individual but also within the human soul.

Second Image:

1. A baby(renewed life) is born from a corpse(death).
2. This symbolizes the close relationship between life and death. Despite death, life continues on.
3. Guts symbolize Life or the phenomena of life—the seemingly ceaseless, brutish struggle for life against death, beautiful and horrible. Life in itself is the equilibrium point between chaos and order.. “Light born in the dark when two swords meet”

Third Image:

Fear and hesitation in the act of leaving the comfort of “The Old”(hierarchy), the Familiar way of doing things and living.

1. The facial expression captures the meeting point between the "crumbling" familiar place, which is associated with safety, but is no longer safe and now guarantees certain death; conversely, leaving the familiar space behind and venturing into the "dark unknown" for an opportunity to live.

Fourth Image:

1. Life is reinvigorated, or the "will to live" is renewed at the edge of death.
2. Pain is necessary for growth. Through pain, suffering, and the destruction of the “Old,” can a passage be made for the “New.”
3. Life needs disorder in order to beget greater forms of self-organization, and destruction is often necessary to make way for the new.
4. Meandering hair can be viewed as a symbol of “Scattered Psychological waters” trying to reorganize themselves to the "psychological nucleus" (psyche).

 

[ThomasB]

Image One:

Nosferatu Zod is an archetypical Demon representing the “Lord of the Earth,” which closely resembles the figure of Dionysus.

1. A Dionysian worldview reveals a universe in which the “boundless fecundity of the world will” builds up and tears down life forms, worlds, and galaxies in innocence and agony that, conveys the idea that pain and suffering are part of the primordial essence of things and that to remove them would be to remove life itself in all its beauty and grandeur.
2. Guts is the manifestation or the “crystalization” of this Archetypical Demon.

Image Two:

Psyches' response to "physiological and psychological distress."

• Guts fighting back with all his strength and being forcibly “taken” shows the Soul is bound up in the physical world. The examination of the psyche shows that the focus is on material and physical well-being. Gutses' domain is the "Earthly Realm."
• Griffith "offered up" his body (earthly) in order to advance his dream (spiritual). The examination of the psyche shows that Spiritual matters are above Physical considerations. Griffiths' domain is the "Spiritual realm."

(Clarification: Griffiths's Dream is to create his own Kingdom; creating a new Kingdom means establishing a new order, a new way of organizing the external world (e.g., new art, new culture, new science, new technology, new cosmology)


Image Three:

One-eye symbolism.

1. After capturing Fort Doldrey, Griffith meets up with Lord Gennon and executes him by piercing him through the eye. Leaving Lord Gennon lying on the ground staring at the heavens with only ONE EYE.
2. Also, when Guts fought 100 men in the forest, which was a pivotal point for his development, we can find the same ONE EYE symbolism present.

Odin- One eye symbolism examined

• Odin sacrificed an eye but gained a more sacred, divine level of wisdom in return. This happens multiple times in Norse mythology, as Odin sacrifices his physical body to gain a cosmic understanding of reality. So the depictions of a one-eyed Odin represent the sacrifice of the earthly in exchange for the divine.

Horus- One eye symbolism examined

• The myth maintains Horus’ left eye was removed. The left eye was believed to be connected to the moon as it could be seen being ripped out of the sky with the effect of the moon’s waxing and waning. Thoth, an Egyptian deity, allegedly restores Horus’ eye, resulting in his eye becoming known as Wadjet, meaning whole or healthy. The restoration of the eye also represented the change from chaos back to order, paralleling the Egyptian concept of perfect order or Ma’at.

Shiva- One eye symbolism examined

• The Hindu god Shiva has three eyes. The third eye, or brow chakra eye, is known as the eye of Shiva, possessor of all knowledge, which, when opened destroys anything it sees. Thus it is a symbol of knowledge that destroys evil and ignorance.
• This, again, can be likened to an awakened higher spiritual part of a person which sees through the veil of illusion and can then eliminate within a person’s psyche that which is opposite to and blocks divine consciousness from manifesting. In this way, it is a “creative destruction” of evil to transform it into higher consciousness.

1. Guts defeating 100 men symbolizes his Mastery over the Earthly Realm. ( abandoning himself to his animal nature and aligning himself to the archetype of "Lord of The Earth"; uncontrolled by reason, just the dynamic of Nature)
2. Griffith recapturing Fort Doldrey after it lay in the enemy's hands for over 100 years symbolized his advancement over the Spiritual Realm (advancement in fulfilling his dream).

Image Four

The symbolism behind "King's Daughter"
She is part of an Aristocracy, she is also a chaste virgin(meaning life-bearing), and is wearing a strikingly contrasting dress (a typical sign of polarity)
The Kings Daughter acts as a mirror, and she is reflecting certain attributes pertaining to Griffith.

1. Aristocracy = High Born, Wellborn
2. Life Bearing = Ability to bring something new into existence (i.e., a new Kingdom, new Order of conduct, "a New Age")
3. Polarity = Close relationship between Good and Evil

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1. The arrow did not break the Behelit or kill Griffith because the Behelit is an object from the Spiritual Realm, and an arrow is an object from the Earthly Realm.
2. Just as objects of higher density (i.e., Quartz Mineral) cannot be scratched by objects of lower density (i.e., wood), the same way objects of higher order (i.e., Behelit) cannot be damaged by objects of lower orders(i.e., arrow).

Image Five

1. Griffith points to an image depicting Tantric Hinduism, which represents the union of the sexes, merging the feminine and the masculine energies into one being. An androgen represents perfect balance—a union of opposites.
2. According to tantric doctrine, the final truth consists in the complete interpenetration of Shiva and Shakti, male and female energy,

 

[SlyapBG]

My conjecture is that Devilman is one of the main inspirations of Berserk - the elevated being Ryu (dragon) awakens as an Angel of the Lord and his adversary is Akira (I don't know which kanji is used) whose spiritual awakening as a demon-human hybrid was brought forth by Ryu. This sort of mimics Griffith unintentionally introducing Guts into the spiritual realm by the Behelit and the first encounter with Zodd.

I like your explanation of Guts as lord of the Earth, that sits well with Daiba's statement, calling him a Kshatriya of Durga. A warrior, but of lower caste, beneath the Brahmin who would be Griffith.

I always thought what Griffith said was chilling, how blaze he says "God or demon - what's the difference?" (I'm paraphrasing). Truly a being above it all, no wonder he discards people rather easily.

 

[ThomasB]

First image:




The image resembles a typical illustration of a "Masonic Lodge," a highly cryptic image with lots of symbolism and hidden meaning behind it. (The God of FreeMasons is Baphomet)

1. The sea critter on the banner represents Water/Aqua or the coming age of Aquarius. The age of Aquarius is the Age of the advancement of humanity.
   • (Kepler's platonic solid "icosahedron," representing the element of "water.")
     
2. The checkered floor represents the close relation between light and dark, or the dual side of humanity, spiritual and earthly.
   

   "The Mosaic Pavement, or checkered floor, is similar to a chessboard and consists of black and white squares. It can be seen on the floor in the center of the lodge it symbolizes duality and how the opposites contradict and complement each other. The Masonic tradition is that the floor of the Temple of Solomon was decorated with a mosaic pavement of black and white stones." - Sabin Iliev

3. The sun, or the circle, represents the psyche, soul, or god.
   

   The circle("sun") is a symbol of the psyche (even Plato described the psyche as a sphere)- C.G. Jung Man and His Symbols

4. The upward-pointing triangle cut out on the banner represents the ascent; when paired with the sun or circle, it represents the ascent of the soul/elevation of consciousness.

Second image:

1. The shadow of the banner is cast upside down on the floor within a circle. The circle represents the soul, and the downward-pointing triangle represents degeneration, the Souls descent into matter.
2. The Aristocrats are shown as “boy lovers”(unnatural act) and as Gluttons. This shows that the Aristocracy of the previous age has degenerated.

Third Image:

1. The "gate logo" on the shield highlights that Griffith and the band of Hawk are breaching the gates. This represents opening the way and breaking through established orders. Some dynamic force that changes or alters the status quo.
2. Gate opening means significant changes in meta-historical cycles.
3. Griffith is the figure that ushers in the New Age of Aquarius.

Fourth Image:

Pan was a composite creature, the upper part— with the exception of his horns—being human(divine), and the lower part in the form of a goat(earthly). The pipes of Pan signify the natural harmony of the spheres, and the god himself is a symbol of Saturn because this planet 1s enthroned in Capricorn, whose emblem is a goat” -Manly P. H

Pan was the controlling spirit of the lower worlds. He was portrayed roaming through the forests, penis erect, drunk and lascivious, frolicking with nymphs, and piping his way through the wild. We might say he ruled the lower nature of man, its animal side, not unlike Satan.

Despite acknowledging its association with Evil, secret societies find the veneration of Saturn necessary to obtain illumination. It is the necessary counterpart of the principle of Good.


Fifth Picture:

1. Stairs symbolize an ascent, or "coming to being."
2. The menstrual cycle symbolizes generation or birth.
3. The Aristocrat of the "Old Age" is on his back, showing that the "Old Age and the older Order are on their way out.
4. A woman is taking his place; women birth or bring into existence.

Casca is represented as the Herald of the New Age/New Order.

 

[ThomasB]

My conjecture is that Devilman is one of the main inspirations of Berserk - the elevated being Ryu (dragon) awakens as an Angel of the Lord and his adversary is Akira (I don't know which kanji is used) whose spiritual awakening as a demon-human hybrid was brought forth by Ryu. This sort of mimics Griffith unintentionally introducing Guts into the spiritual realm by the Behelit and the first encounter with Zodd.

I like your explanation of Guts as lord of the Earth, that sits well with Daiba's statement, calling him a Kshatriya of Durga. A warrior, but of lower caste, beneath the Brahmin who would be Griffith.

I always thought what Griffith said was chilling, how blaze he says "God or demon - what's the difference?" (I'm paraphrasing). Truly a being above it all, no wonder he discards people rather easily.

I just started reading; I'm on Ch. "The Morning of Departure 2."

I've never heard of Devilman, but from your description, I believe Devilman and Berserk shared some of their DNA with the old Lunar/Solar fertility myths of Death/Rebirth. (Osiris/Horus)(Dionysus/Apollo)(Jesus/Lucifer)

I always thought what Griffith said was chilling, how blaze he says "God or demon - what's the difference?" (I'm paraphrasing). Truly a being above it all, no wonder he discards people rather easily

You should check out Nietszhes's (audio)book "Human all too human, and the AntiChrist." Extremely high-level material, very well-written, and extremely palatable, and it precisely deals with God or Demon question.

 

[SlyapBG]

Well, perhaps not all of these takes are as convincing.

 

[ThomasB]

Androgyny
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While Griffith is male, he looks beautiful and feminine (just like a woman). What is the meaning of this?

Androgyny' comes from the Greek word andros, meaning 'man,' and gyne, meaning 'woman.' An androgynous person is, therefore, one who has both masculine and feminine characteristics.

1. Androgyny is a merger of the feminine and the masculine energies into one being—a communion of Spirit and Matter, Reunification of polarities.
2. Androgyny is a symbol of immortality, transcendence, and totality. It also represents the merging of the self, the triumph over the mind and ego.
3. The yin-yang symbol is an androgynous symbol. It is called the taiji-tu in Taoist philosophy, and it shows the perfect fusion of duality or the complementary combination of all opposites with and into one another. The androgyne symbolizes the persistent driving force to attain balance and harmony.
4. Lao Tzu has written that a person can achieve purity if he or she can acknowledge both feminine and masculine dualities and reconcile them. One must gain wisdom of masculinity and hold on to femininity to represent the ideal Man and Woman as One.

According to the Babylonian Talmud, Adam Kadmon, the first man, was an androgen and contained the feminine principle of Eve in his rib.




Shiva and Shakti, which represents the union of the sexes, merge the feminine and the masculine energies into one being.




Hercules (Heracles), whose masculinity is tempered by wearing women’s clothes. Symbolizing the integration of the feminine.

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Dionysos is an extremely beautiful youth depicted with soft, feminine features. (the same symbolism as Griffith)



The Prima Materia encapsulates the seed of perfection and represents the beginning and end of all creation. It is the primitive formless base of all matter, similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether.



The Roman God, Mercurius, could cross over borders between heaven, earth, and the underworld.



The Phoenix, the generally masculine symbol, acted like a mother by “conceiving by itself” (female generative principle) and "being born of itself" from the ashes.

 

[manvsdestiny]

what about skullknight,the beast of darkness and the berserker armor.

 

[ThomasB]

what about skullknight,the beast of darkness and the berserker armor.

I've only read up to chapter 16+35, "The Morning of Departure (2). I'm slowly working on two more installments. I have not yet come across the things/themes you have mentioned.

Just going from the names alone and "shooting completely in the dark."

Skull knight(undead) is something outside the realm of earthly existence or "reality," or putting it another way, something outside the realm of "time and space." What this means is that it occupies the metaphysical domain and the "symbol?/archetype?" of the Skull Knight represents some type of a reoccurring "cycle," or "principle" found within Nature that manifests itself into the physical world because it is above the mere "temporal forms of matter"(such as squirrels, buildings, and trees). ((By "above," I mean outside the sphere of death and decay; which is the sphere and attributes of physical matter))

An archetype in its quintessential form, unprojected form state has no exactly determinable form but is in itself an indefinite structure which can assume definite forms only in projection(once it enters the domain of space and time). - Jung 142, 9.1

Beast of Darkness - Conquering/Taming your Eartly/Animal Nature.

Berserker Armor- An armor is a tool of war, meaning it can be equipped and unequipped; a tool to be utilized, not a "hindrance" that you are permanently stuck with. The state of "Berserk" is a "vegetative", "insect-like", state of consciousness, wherein higher consciousness is not present, where conscious thought is NOT interfering with action—just the pure raw dynamic of Nature.

 

[ThomasB]

Griffith's intervention allows Casca to overcome her fate; the implications are profound.

The "Threads of Fate" are the Domain of the Gods; an Illuminated-Man has the ability to alter the "Threads of Fate"; therefore, an Illuminated-Man stands above the Gods.

(Clarification: by Gods, I am referring to the current social/political/religious boundaries. Gods are constructs of the human mind that capture through the symbolic form, the values, attitudes, and the cosmology of the day.)




Symbols of transcendence: “Womb and the Tomb,” when people are buried, they are put back into the womb of Mother Earth for Rebirth.

Falling into the river(“waters”) represents Baptism, purification, and rebirth.

Casca is on period symbolizing the birth or generation of something new. Guts ventures inside the cave “womb of Mother Earth”; the womb is the transforming medium. This symbolizes the burial of the “old self” and an upcoming spiritual rebirth.

Man needs liberation from any state of being that is too immature, too fixed or final. In other words, release from—or transcendence of—any confining pattern of existence, as he moves toward a superior or more mature stage in his development. The cave is a holy place—a place of meditation and of the mystery of transformation from the earthly to the heavenly, from the carnal to the spiritual.




ATLAS in Greek mythology. He is the son of the titan Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, brother of Prometheus. Atlas fought with the Titans(Demi-Gods) against the Olympic gods. As punishment for that, he was condemned to endure forever the Earth and the Heavens on his back.



Griffith is reading Philosophy, Religion, and History in the library, which shows the "convergence" of the historical, spiritual, and political energy into a single point, into the “World soul.”

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. - David Hume

I saw the Emperor – this world-soul [Weltseele] – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it. - Hegel

Lightning Symbolism- Lightning is the manifestation of solar light, which represents the solar principle. The Sun does not die; it takes the light with it when it sets. It is disengaged from the field of time.


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Note: Throughout Mythologies and Religious systems, the same images, themes, and symbols have constantly been recurring and appearing everywhere.

Berserk is a modem day Myth that uses the same themes and symbols found throughout the previous ages and across different cultures.








“Divine quaternity” (or element of “fourness”),

The Sanskrit word mandala means "circle" in the ordinary sense of the word. In the sphere of religious practices and in psychology, it denotes circular images, which are drawn, painted, modeled, or danced. Plastic structures of this kind are to be found, for instance, in Tibetan Buddhism, and as dance figures, these circular patterns also occur in Dervish monasteries. As psychological phenomena, they appear spontaneously in dreams. in certain states of conflict, and in cases of schizophrenia. Very frequently, they contain a quaternity or a multiple of four in the form of a cross, a star, a square, an octagon, etc. In alchemy, we encounter this motif in the form of quadratura circuli..- C.G. Jung 713 9.1

“Tower of Triumph”(symbol of totality, wholeness, self) in the middle.

In such cases it is easy to see how the severe pattern imposed by a circular image of this kind compensates the disorder of the psychic state– namely through a the construction of a central point to which everything is related, or by a concentric arrangement of the disordered multiplicity and of contradictory and irreconcilable elements. This is evidently an attempt at self-healing on the part of Nature, which does not spring from conscious reflection but from an instinctive impulse.” C.G. Jung

As a whole, the crest is a map to individuation or wholeness, or the achievement of complete personality, the unification, and incorporations of all 4 polar opposite forces found within oneself. The Tower of Triumph in the middle signifies the Triumph over the 4 polar energies.

Speculation: At the moment, I can’t see precisely how all 4 these symbols fit together:

1. (Sun) - ??enlightenment; the solar masculine aspect??
2. Moon - ??sleeping consciousness; feminine lunar aspect??
3. Stars - ??dreaming consciousness; small light(stars) born out of complete darkness(night sky), the starlight is always there in the dark night sky but very dim??
4. Lightning - ??waking consciousness; lighting strike only lights up for a brief moment(temporary) vs. the "symbolic sun" always being luminous(eternal)?? Hindu vajra is a weapon of spiritual transformation that "mercilessly" destroys ego illusions. illumination
5. (This one is correct) (Tower-of-Triumph) = Achievement of totality/self, mastery of all polarities, wholeness, perfect balance, equilibrium.

My initial thought was that the princess was just a background character. She was just a means to an end, a way for Griffith to marry and move into Aristocracy.

The introduction of magnetic(polarity) statues, shared between Griffith and the Princess, shows a far deeper underlying dynamic in play between Griffith and the Princess(in terms of underlying psychological/spiritual energy dynamics). Further, the statue has a cross on it, which stands for the number 4, which is a very common symbol associated with the process of individuation.

Symbolic structures that refer to the “process of individuation” tend to be based on the motif of the number four—such as the four functions of consciousness or the four stages of the anima or animus. - C.G. Jung

Further, the princess is 16 years old, which is now suspicious when considering all the other symbolic elements shown a moment ago.
The square root of 16 = 4.

4 squares on the Midland crest (1 square has 4 sides)= 4 squares x 4 sides =16 (Tower Of Triumph)
Tower-of-Triumph(16) = Princess (16)

Does the Princess symbolize the mastery of 4 polarities? The perfect balance between the spiritual and the earthly realm?

 

[NightCrawler]

1. Griffith points to an image depicting Tantric Hinduism, which represents the union of the sexes, merging the feminine and the masculine energies into one being. An androgen represents perfect balance—a union of opposites.
2. According to tantric doctrine, the final truth consists in the complete interpenetration of Shiva and Shakti, male and female energy,

 

[ThomasB]

Berserk is a modem day Myth that uses the same themes and symbols found throughout the previous ages and across different cultures.






This image is found in "The Morning of Departure (1)", right before Guts leaves the band of the Hawk.

This image points to Kundalini Yoga. (The seven chakra system, the Lunar, and the Solar principle.)
The Jewels are placed on chakra centers, two pillars, "Pingala"(sun) and "Ida"(moon). The striped garb symbolizes the "twin snakes"(solar and lunar energy) ascending up the spine.


To understand some of the story's more "paradoxical" events, we have to examine the underlying "energy dynamics" and do it in a systematic way.




Baphomet is meditating in Kundalini Yoga posture. (Sitting on his but with his legs crossed)
We see two dark shapes resembling the two towers of "Pingala"(sun) and "Ida"(moon). (..Lord Of The Rings The Two Towers)
Also, The staff of The Caduceus: Two serpents entwined.

Pans flute has 7 levels, and each of these levels represents one of the 7 major chakras.



Pan was the God of the Second Chakra, of the Sex Chakra. The second(sex) chakra does not mean that the consciousness is focused on sex; it refers to a certain level of psychological development or conscious awareness. We could look at it like a pair of rabbits running around in a green field, focused only on eating, sleeping, and breeding without a care in the world. Of course, the rabbit experiences a momentary sensation of fear if a fox shows up, but once the danger is gone, the fear is gone, and the rabbit is back in the green field.

Kundalini Yoga (200 B.C.E, 200 A.D.)
7 steps of evolution​

The word Kundalini is from the word kunda, meaning "coiled up".-- spiritual energy coiled up at the base of the spine. Kundalini Yoga deals with our psychic energy's seven symbolic centers(chakras). (The system describes the movement and function of "psychic" energy.)

The function of yoga is to release us from the “time-space domain”(earthly), introduce us to the transcendent, and then bring us back so that we can operate in both earthly and spiritual worlds.

Intertwining Solar and Lunar serpents (energy) climb up the spine and enter new sequential energy centers(chakras); the steps along the way are marked with psychological transformation.

Lunar Consciousness Principle- Dies, resurrected just like the moon. The serpent casts skin to be born again. The serpent represents the power of life energy and consciousness to throw off death, but it is in the field of death, throwing off death and putting on new bodies or the sequence of the generations. It is engaged in the field of time.

Solar Consciousness Principle: The Sun does not die; it takes the light with it when it sets. It is disengaged from the field of time.

Chakra Ladder​

7 Chakras symbolize seven different centers of consciousness.
7 steps of evolution

7. 1000 petal lotus- Consciousness that is outside the realm of space and time. Godhead
6. Third Eye Chakra -"Sublime love," Wisdom
5. Throat chakra - Psychological energy is directed inwardly to conquer oneself.
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4. Heart-Chakra - Point of equilibrium, yin-yang, solar and lunar energy is perfectly balanced.
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3. Solar Plexus- Psychological energy is directed outwardly to conquer the world. "Will to power"
2. Sex chakra- Excitement, love, sex, duality, being in the world. (most people are here)
1 . Root chakra- "Vegetative," "Insect-like" state of consciousness, wherein higher consciousness is not present. (No ambition, no sex drive, just reaction)




(Picture found in Guardians of Desire (5)






Chakra 1,2,3 related to 7,6,5 in an inverse way.


......................................4. Heart-Chakra..............................
1. Pre Consciousness...≅ 7. Divine Consciousness
2. "Love".......................≅ 6. "Sublime Love"
3. Conquer-the-World..≅ 5. Conquer-Yourself
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Let's return to the beginning; "Guardians of Desire."







No commentary at this moment, but some things to remember are,
the "wheel of fate," "... gods of this world"

Speculation​

Spoiler: Speculation: Spoiler

The battle of Doldrey(3), you can refer back to this post.

Examining Allegory and Symbolism Found throughout Berserk(starting from the very beginning)

While Berserk can be read and interpreted in the literal sense, Berserk's ultimate essence and meaning does not lie in the literal interpretation. There are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define...

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The Judean Governor of that Age was, a Governor, someone that "conquered the world"(3rd chakra), but he was also a boy lover(2nd chakra). So we can see a pattern of decline or degeneration.


Griffith kills the Governor(2nd chakra).

?This can mean Griffiths's second chakra is inactive and suffers from one-sidedness.?
?The "collective consciousness" of the previous Era/Age was concentrated around the second chakra.?


Studying history, religion, and politics at the library, (CL6).. maybe...
Sold himself for money to advance his dream, spirit above the flesh (conquering yourself). (CL5)
Battling in the World and aiming for his dream(CL3)



Although Nosferatu demon said the word "Ambition," others talk about Griffiths's ambition. Which (is CL3) domain.