(rendaku in title because it seems more euphonous that way)

AN: Someday I'll write an essay-piece that lays out and argues my Akio-Osiris & Anthy-Isis connection. Today is not that day. This is a shitpost that takes that as a given.
Addendum: To clarify, this is essentially making connections I doubt were intended. I do think that Akio-Osiris & Anthy-Isis is "canon" or rather a genuine influence.

Someone on /a/ made a shitpost thread asking why Nanami had to turn into a cow.

Obviously, I said, it's because the cow is the animal of Hera, the jealous sister-wife of Zeus the philandering king; thus turning into a cow symbolizes her desire to have onii-sama take her.

Of course now I've also said Touga is Zeus. What more arbitrary connections can we make for the rest of the seitokai?

Ruka is Hades, being dead and only rarely appearing on Olympus.

To complete the three-tall-brothers set, Poseidon is the aoi-haired Saionji, overshadowed by Zeus. (Saionji's last-name-refered-ness is pretty amusing. on the dub of the movie, the credits list everyone in western name order except Saionji. they literally thought that was his given name)

Juri is is clearly either Athena, because Artemis was neither martial nor a model.

And Miki is Apollo, and obviously Kozue Artemis. Except one attribute is swapped between the two pairs of twins. Though Miki is still the civilized, musical one, and Kozue the wild one, Miki now becomes the virginal, while Kozue takes and accelerates Apollo's proscimuity. Perhaps this is due to the difference between baptized Europe (& Japan?) against pagan Greece in notions of sex and civilizedness.

And of course they're all being played by the far more powerful and ancient gods of the Egyptians. That's another interpretation of the "race question"- the Greeks believed they derived their religion from the Egyptians on account of the latter's antiquity [though they really did so from their own ancestors and the Sumerians-Semites], just as the Japanese derived Buddhism from the Indians. Or something like that.

Now let's return to Touga, because there's something interesting there. The classical comparison is Zeus to Ammon-Ra. This is of course completely wrong. Zeus is just Ba'al, and Ba'al is Seth.

Seth, the brother of Osiris and Isis! Seth, the murderer of Osiris! Clearly that makes no sense!

But we should remember that Seth is a complex figure. He originated as a royal totem of one proto-Egyptian people or another, grew into a rivalry with another such royal totem, Horus; and both were later inserted into the Osiris-Isis mythos. (Especially once they were replaced as the rival gods of kingship by Ra. Ra, I suspect, was a kind-of-artifical, neutral Sun-god brought in to remove the Fourth Dynasty above the corncerns of the warring Horus and Seth cults. Totalitarian waifu god~ Remember, his name is literally just "Sun". Cf. Sol Invictus, or, hilariously, Ra's own replacement, Aten.) Seth was the patron of several eccentric pharaohs, but ultimately the cult of Horus won out, and Seth became the Egyptian Satan.

But Seth has red hair.

Moreover, Seth is the rival of the rightful prince Horus for the throne of the dead god Osiris.

They fought countless times over an eighty-year war. Countless times.

Once Seth even attempted to rape Horus, but failed. Instead, Seth himself was humiliated.

(And they later reconciled.)

Touga plays the role of Seth for Akio, according to his plan, masking the fact that Osiris, though dead and dethroned, is still very active and not at all interested in being succeeded and new-Mandate-of-Heaven'd, but is instead is using Horus for his own purposes. And also kind of is a Seth (esp. as god of foreigners) himself. And the Isis that helps Horus is very much in on it.

(Though unlike the perpetually unfulfilled Seth of later Horus-propaganda, though, Touga does manage to otherwise get laid.)

Last edited by Amasis (05-29-2016 12:15:36 PM)