[The Bear's Lair] God of War 3 and Greek Mythology - Vol. 2

In this 27th appointment of the Bear's Lair, the section dedicated mainly to mythology in video games, we continue the journey of exploration of the mito greco in God of War 3: a journey that began last Wednesday, with the first part of this analysis.

Where had we stayed?

It starts the Second Titanomachy, after that Kratos used his newly acquired powers from “Doc” Emmett Brown to grab and the Titans for the scruff, at the time of the original war between Primordial Titans e Olympus gods, and bring them into the present. Things are getting bad Kratos gets tired of being used as a throwaway pawn (recycle instead!) and finds himself fighting a war on two fronts.

L'ex-god of war kills one after another Poseidon, Ade, Elio, Hermes, Era, Hephaestus, Heracles, Piritoo and a plethora of characters and creatures from the Greek myth, and after enjoying a journey to the Underworld continues in his rise of Olympus towards the true object of his revenge: Zeus, his father.

Aphrodite and her handmaids

Whom do we meet along the way? The radiant, sensual, radiant, sensual, half naked and sensual (did I already say sensual?) Afrodite, who entertains amiably with his two maids.

Yes, the developers stressed in all possible ways that the sensuality of the goddess of love is rather exasperated: there is a reason far more valid than the obvious fan service, and we'll find out towards the end of this article.

With the cute threesome actually Kratos he has more than one encounter: he passes and goes back to that room as if he had nothing else to do. Ah, Kratos brighella!

Recall that in God of War (2005), the first chapter in order of publication, Afrodite helped us and not a little, enchanting the head of Medusa to make it a weapon; in addition to this, in God of War III it is the goddess who directs us to her husband Hephaestus, and there is also the possibility of… chatting with her, while the maids enjoy the show.

And in the meantime they break the fourth part.

Brunette Handmaid [looking into the camera]: This is definitely not for minors.
Blonde handmaid [looking into the room]: Please send the children to bed!

Brunette Handmaid: He's going to ... for the Gods! Why is all the fun always up to Aphrodite?
Blonde Handmaid: How I envy her! When will it be our turn?

Okay, we're actually playing an Leisure Suit Larry set inAncient Greece.

Perhaps because Kratos - understandably - has a crush on the goddess of Love, or maybe because he has a certain gratitude towards him, Afrodite it is not added to the notches on the Spartan's blades. The notch is marked on the belt, in a sense, but so be it.

Finished the banal jokes, let's get serious again!

Nella Greek mythology, as we have already seen in the past, Afrodite born from genitals of Uranus, emasculated by his son Crono; the same violent act of the son against the father, however, also generates the Erinyes, the giants and nymphs of ash. How does this gory background reconcile with the version of Afrodite that we meet in God of War?

It is not reconciled, and in fact in the saga in Kratos our dear Afrodite è daughter of Zeus and Dione; the latter, in turn, is daughter of Uranus and Gaea, so in essence Afrodite it passes to the next generation, following the same one divine genealogy which we then also find inIliad. Not aunt of Zeus, therefore, but his daughter.

The question becomes more complicated when one identifies Dione with the Great Mother, since it was venerated as such in sanctuary of Dodona (today Dodoni), in Greece; usually the Great Mother is identified in the figure of Gea / Gaia. Then we could also bring up Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte and company singer, but we have already done it, again and again, so a 'na sure enough.

And the two amusing young ladies? They are an invention of Santa Monica Studio (i.e. Sony)? Never! It is about Peitho and Paregoros, daughters of the Titan Ocean and maids of Afrodite! What do you say, the developers were aware of it, or have entered the two maids as a shameless fan service, as well as the poor Princess of Poseidon? Hmmm.

The betrayal of Hephaestus

La goddess of love directs us to the poor Hephaestus, god of fire and forges which, however, in the saga of God of War it is the embodiment of the concept of the horned and the crooked.

We have actually already talked about the god of dwarf blacksmiths, but at this point we learn that Hephaestus it hasn't always been the monster we see now: it is son of Zeus and Hera, so he is a half-brother of Kratos.

He was also the one who forged the Glove of Zeus, a divine artifact that the father of the gods use for chaining i Titans in Tartar, and that in Chains of Olympus (in fact, the Chains of Olympus) ours Kratos use to match Persephone and chain poor Titan again Atlas to the Column of the World.

Hephaestus tells us that Zeus imprisoned him in the infer the day when everything changed: the day when Kratos opened on Pandora's box and felled Ares. That day the relatively benevolent Zeus he is as if mad: he has beaten and cursed Hephaestus, making him the deformed being we see before us, and separated him from his wife Afrodite and his daughter Pandora. Hmmmmm.

Even in Greek myth, However, Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera; in that context, however, the troubled relationship has it with her mother. Era threw it fromOlympus, crippling him and making him ugly and deformed, and only with a certain wit and a touch of malice Hephaestus managed to be accepted among the Olympus gods.

Just like in God of War III, Furthermore, Hephaestus is married to Afrodite, but the latter usually betrays him with ... Ares, god of war, so that Hephaestus rages and retreats into the bowels ofEtna, in Sicily. In short, continues the leitmotiv, the recurring theme, of Kratos who takes the place of his former mentor Ares in all and for all.

Be that as it may, Hephaestus he declares himself ready to help us, he sends us to retrieve an object, which will allow us to continue on our path. In reality, however, Hephaestus he hopes to send us to certain death, so as to preserve his secret, as we will see later.

The return of Cronus

Basically the good Hephaestus, with the excuse of recovering the Omphalos stone, sends us in Tartar to confront an old acquaintance of ours: the Titan Crono, son and killer of Uranus.

But we in the first God of War we had already explored the Pandora's Temple, still chained to the titanic back of Crono, and that's where the Pandora's box, so we know that there is nothing that concerns us there. Crono, however, thinks differently: in addition to blaming us for the alleged death of Gea / GaiaIn fact, Crono he also holds us responsible for his imprisonment.

Il Titan tells us that after our exploit with the Pandora's boxIn fact, Zeus it's like gone mad and has locked up the Titan in the depths of the Tartar, where we found it currently. Yes, this is not the first time they have spoken to us of a radical change in the character of the father of the gods following theopening of the glass. Hmmm.

After a long and grueling fight, Crono grabs Kratos and swallows it, as it did with the others Olympus gods and how he was going to do with too Zeus.

While the latter merely made his father vomit to free his Olympic brothers, Kratos opts for a more radical measure: first he guts him, then he pierces his chin, and finally sticks his head with the Sword of Olympus.

The Omphalos Stone

During this delicate gallbladder stone surgery, the improvised surgeon Kratos runs into a gallstone with a legendary story: the Omphalos stone.

It is precisely the stone that the Titan Sale made to swallow a Crono in place of the little son Zeus, and that in reality he would have no reason to be there: when Zeus he managed, with a ruse, to make people vomit Crono so as to free Poseidon, Ade and most of the futures Olympus gods, logically also the Pietra it should have flown out.

However, another story is also linked to this stone: to properly identify the center of the Earth's surface, Zeus he sent off two eagles at the same time, one from one end of the world and one from the other. The two eagles traveled at the same speed, and finally met in the skies above the city of Delphi.

Zeus threw a stone, and in the exact spot where it touched the ground theOracle of Delphi, that is the famous temple of Apollo located at center of the Earth: The navel of the world. And indeed Omphalos it means navel, in ancient Greek. Jovanotti freebooter.

In ancient Greece there were several representations ofOmphalos, the most famous of which was naturally placed in temple of Apollo a Delphi... just that of Pythia of which we have already spoken in the previous article, that is the character of Aletheia di God of War: Ascension.

Everything comes back, and also Kratos –Slightly altered– comes back from Hephaestus, with the Omphalos stone and several bad intentions. The blacksmith god is quite surprised that the Spartan has survived, and - perhaps to ingratiate himself with him - offers to forge them a new legendary weapon, using the Omphalos stone.

Probably Kratos he would not be misled, but Hephaestus he decides to dispel any doubts by trying to electrocute Kratos. Big mistake. Also Hephaestus is added to the Spartan's game bag, who can now also add to his arsenal the weapon forged by the divine blacksmith: the Nemesis whip.

A gem: the green aura that surrounds the Nemesis whip is, in all likelihood, a tribute to Cronus stone that we see both in Xena: the warrior princess both in Hercules: the legendary journeys.

Skorpius, the Chimera and legendary creatures

Speaking divine artifacts e legendary creatures: in the course of his ascent to Olympus, ours Kratos meets -e exterminates– diverse creatures of myth.

One of these is the Chimera, which we encounter twice: a glacial version in God of War: Ascension, during our visit to the Delphi temple, and a flamboyant in God of War III, while Elio annoys Persians, the Titan of the Volcanoes.

La Chimera is a cocktail of lion, goat and snake, and is the daughter of Typhoon ed echidna just like theHydra, Cerberus and much of the mythological bestiary exterminated by the Spartan.

If the Greek hero Bellerofonte, with the help of Pegaso, killed her by throwing lead into her fire-breathing jaws, causing her to indigestion of burning molten metal, Kratos he is more of a traditionalist: he tears off one of her goat horns, and impales her with the aforementioned.

Another one mythological creature extinct at the hands of Kratos è Scorpius, the Queen of Scorpions we meet in Maze of Daedalus, which we are about to talk about.

In the myth Scorpios / Scorpius is a giant scorpion sent to Earth from Gea / Gaia to celebrate the giant Orion, son of Poseidon and of the Gorgon Euriale (which we addressed in God of War 2) which, for some reason, he had threatened to exterminate the terrestrial fauna.

According to other sources, however, the legendary scorpion is sent by Artemide or from his brother Apollo, for reasons of jealousy.

In either myth, however, both entities are transformed into constellations da Zeus, and even in heaven the two are sworn enemies: when Orion is in the sky we do not see Scorpio, and viceversa. It must be said that for the Greeks the constellation of Scorpio it also included that of the Balance, which in a nutshell formed the claws of the celestial scorpion.

After addressing Scorpius, Anyway, Kratos finally arrives at its destination, while it is time for us to talk about the Maze of Daedalus and, finally, of the Pandora's box.

Pandora's box

First of all, let's refresh our memory: Kratos opens the Pandora's box to absorb its power, so as to be able to defeat Ares. Which he punctually does.

Second, Pandora's Box (Pandora's Box) is a wrong translation: the original Greek term is pithos, that is jar; unfortunately in 1508 Erasmus of Rotterdam, translating the story of Pandora narrated by Hesiodconfused pithos from pyxis, e la Jar of Pandora became one Casket or a box or, at best, a Jar.

Of course, I'm not the one who wants to correct Erasmus of Rotterdam, but Dora ed Erwin Panofsky in their book Pandora's Box.

Collecting the clues we find around, talking to the statue bronze that we encounter throughout the game, and above all in dialogue with Hephaestus (before making the skin), we can rebuild the tragedy of Pandora.

The daughter of Hephaestus is, in fact, a animated construct, born from Flame of Olympus and destined to return to it. It was adopted by Hephaestus, who tried unsuccessfully to replicate this construct, and the Olympian blacksmith became so fond of her that he deceived Zeus, first, and Kratos, then.

But let's proceed in order: Hephaestus forged the Pandora's box by order of Zeus, with the aim of containing the Mali generated by the first Titanomachy. All metals proved inadequate for the arduous task, and so the Olympian blacksmith used a power superior even to that of the gods: no, not the Moire / Parchment, But the Flame of Olympus, which vaporizes any creature that touches it.

The key to Pandora's Box

From the same Flame of Olympus was also created Pandora, a key in the form of a little girl. Hephaestus however he became fond of her, and decided not to mention her: he convinced the father of the gods to guard the Vase - Casket on the back of Crono, who thus found himself wandering in the desert with a temple tied on his back.

However, in the saga of God of War the father of the gods learns of Pandora, and after the opening of the namesake Jar (!) locks it up in the Maze of Daedalus.

Un Dedalo chained in his own labyrinth by Zeus, after the opening of Pandora's box (again). Dedalo he is initially unaware of his son's passing Icaro, which occurred at the hands of Kratos in God of War II, but when he sees us with his wings he understands immediately, and his heart breaks.

Kratos, in any case, it also breaks up everything else, shredding it in the mechanisms of its own Maze. Which, incidentally, is identical to the structure depicted in the film Cube - The cube, released way back in 1999.

Walk walk, the Spartan recovers Pandora and, despite some reluctance on Kratos' part to which the girl remembers her daughter Calliope, as well as to the detriment of the intervention of Zeus in person, Pandora ends up sacrificing herself, returning to Flame of Olympus.

While Zeus lies stunned by the resulting explosion, Kratos finally opens the Pandora's box… And finds it empty. Fail.

Pandora, the female gender and the cause of all evil

Here we are somewhat at odds with the myth of Pandora, which we have already explored in the past: in Greek mythology Pandora was the first woman, created by Hephaestus by order of Zeus. In Pandora all the Virtue of the world, but Zeus he gave her a Jar which contained all Mali, with the dubious intent of punishing mortals for the fire theft accomplished by Prometheus.

Pandora and his consort, the Titan Epimeteo (brother of Prometheus) that we have seen pierced by Poseidon in the climb toOlympus, ended up opening the Jar, contaminating all mortals with the aforementioned Mali, but leaving Hope within it. Which however so far in God of War we have not met. Hmmm.

Summing up we can say that, according to the Greek myth, the female gender was created as a punishment for men. Yes, there is a certain misogynist streak, but it is by no means superior to what the figure sees Eva betray God's trust and, therefore, cause the expulsion from the Earthly Paradise of our biblical forefathers, Adam and Eve.

La demonization of the female figure appears in many mythological systems and in various religions, from the Mesopotamian ones to the present ones that we all know: we talked about it for Vampire: the Masquerade, even more than once, and the theme also returns in Darksiders 2.

The overthrow of the Greek myth

As we have already said, the plan of Zeus behind the creation of the Pandora's box, at least in myth, it concerned the punishment of mortals for the theft of fire by the mortal-friendly Titan, Prometheus.

In God of WarInstead, the Greek myth is overturnedI Mali generated by the Titanomachy they are a threat to both mortals and the gods themselves, so they are locked up in Vase - Casket until a mortal, Kratos, frees them by opening the container for the first time. These Mali they spread throughout the world, now free to infect mortals and, inevitably, the gods as well.

Yes, because even they are not immune, and over and over again we are told that the very act of opening the Jar changed the character of the gods, exasperating their impulses and perverting their behavior. Here, in fact, is that:

• Ares is tainted by Hatred and Wrath;
• Poseidon from Anger and Violence;
• Hermes from Malice and Pride;
• Elio from Pride, Deception and Slander;
• Cersei Era from Gola (for wine) and Accidia;
• Afrodite from Lust and Vanity;
• Heracles from Envy and Jealousy towards Kratos;
• Hephaestus from Misery and Deception.

Zeus, the father of Olympus, becomes infected with Fear, Obsession and Betrayal: the same Fear which he pushed Uranus to try to prevent the birth of their children, Crono to emasculate the father and devour his own children, e Zeus to imprison his opponents or presumed adversaries, including Crono ed Hephaestus, and to try several times to kill his son Kratos.

The behavior of the gods, therefore, is so exasperated and irrational because of the gods Mali. The only ones who seem immune, it seems, are the Sisters of Fate (i.e. the Moiras / Fates), as they are a power superior even to the gods of Olympus, as well as Thanatos (Death) and, in part, i Primal Titans including Gea / Gaia.

We forgot about a goddess, though: Athena, who in life seemed immune to Evils but who, after his death and his rise to a higher existence, proves to be particularly vulnerable toGreed andSelfishness, so much so as to declare - in the end - that he wants to take the place of Zeus.

In Greek myth, However, Pandora closes on Jar homonymous before the last entity present within it, the Hope, manage to escape; you will have to open the container a second time so that The Pee, daughter of the Titan Nyx and personification of the spirit of Hope, is able to spread around the world.

And who will ever have the courage, or the total lack of common sense, to open the Pandora's box?

[Slowly grinning.]

The cycle ends

After a long, very long journey, whose milestones are represented by the deaths of the Olympus gods and creatures of the Greek myth and Roman, Kratos finally arrives in the presence of his father: Zeus.

The two are there to fool around with it, perhaps clarifying their point of view once and for all. A bit like a classic española mother, Zeus it tells us that just as it made us, it can destroy us quite easily, when suddenly sbam! Returns Gea / Gaia, armed with ignorance and bad intentions.

The Mother of Dragons Titans etc. etc. is not actually dead: in that sense i Titans they were a bit boccaloni, since they had it to death with Kratos not at all, or almost. Ungrateful. Pizzas and slaps, e Zeus and Kratos they take refuge inside Gea / Gaia, entering from a wound inflicted by one of the Lovecraftian Hippocampi of Poseidon.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust

There is something strangely appropriate about this: the circle of life began from Gea, at least as regards the gods and mortals, and the cycle will close within it, for the exponent of one of the two categories.

Father and son face each other inside the grandmother / great-grandmother / great-great-grandmother / it's complicated, close to her heart; and it is right the heart of the Mother which gives strength to the two fighters, like it or not, until Kratos does not pierce Zeus and nails it to the heart itself, causing the death of the Father of the gods and Mother of the Titans.

Or maybe not.

Zeus, Kratos, hope

Kratos awakens among the remains of Gea / Gaia and, with difficulty, extracts the Sword of Olympus from the mangled corpse of Zeus.

A voice rises from the battered body of the son of Cronus and Rhea: the spirit of father of the gods it's still alive and well, and attacking Kratos with all the strength sprung from the spirit of Fear.

The brutal physical and mental assault deprives Kratos of its indomitable willpower, and we see him succumb: the fury of the Spartan gives way to despair, and darkness falls in the mind of the Ghost of Sparta. A light, however, lights up in the darkness: it is the spirit of Pandora, which now dwells within us.

In a sense we can say that Pandora both the attempt to Kratos to fill the bleeding void in his heart, where his family used to be. A void that seemed destined to seem even more empty when the girl jumped into the flames, but which perhaps was filled with something else.

Pandora helps us navigate the dark ocean of despair (the lack of hope, literally), and thanks to her we kill the same ghosts that Ares used to control the Spartan. In Kratos now the flame of hope is lit, or rather: the hope.

Yes, because in essence we can deduce that the Pandora in our mind is nothing but The Pee, the spirit of Hope, finally freed from the Pandora's box when Kratos opened it the second time.

Thanks to Hope the Spartan comes to his senses and in practice chaste Respici Non-Death punches: chase away the Fear to the sound of fists, and at the same time devastates the spirit - and the body - of Zeus. Kratos he kills with his bare hands the Father of the gods, as well as his own father, perpetrating the subject of parricide in the primeval and Olympic family.

The kingdom of the Olympus gods it's over.

Athena, the last goddess (and explains it)

In a sort of belated deus ex machina, the new one astral form of Athena appears to congratulate Kratos, but almost immediately orders him to hand over to her the power that the Spartan found in Pandora's box. The tessssoooooroh.

Kratos a bit 'he pretends dumb, a bit' maybe he did not really understand, and therefore Athena he stands up and snaps it explains it.

It is true that in the time of the Olympians, warlords and kings who ruled over a land in turmoil, the Mali area of Titanomachy they had been locked up in Pandora's box; it is also true, however, that as a security measure, Athena she had inserted herself into the Jar the most powerful weapon in the world: the Hope.

The intent of Athena was to counter the evils, countering them with a positive power to guarantee the salvation of gods and mortals; now though Athena, which according to our reconstruction was corrupted byGreed and by 'Selfishness, claims that Kratos restores the power of Hope, so that the goddess can rebuild a world now purified by Elemental Chaos triggered by the death of the gods of Olympus and Primordial Titans.

At that point Athena it has a sort of epiphany, of sudden illumination: when i Mali, released at the first opening of Jar and that is when Kratos killed Ares, have infected the gods of Olympus, the power of Hope merged with the soul of Kratos.

That's why the Ghost Sparta never wavered, never retreated and continued his journey of redemption and revenge against the gods and against Fate.

Now Pandora / Elpis helped him banish his own ghosts, which were the cause of terrible visions that tormented him, Kratos he began to forgive the primary object of his hatred: himself. The anger begins to wear off, and the power of the Hope emerges in a characteristic blue flame, which recalls the Flame of Olympus di Pandora.

The story ends here ...

In summary, the Hope has passed by Athena a Pandora, And Pandora a Kratos, which uses it to banish the Fear and defeat Zeus.

Any previous owner of the Hope, however, he died in a particular way: he sacrificed himself, so that the Hope continued to exist. Athena she sacrificed herself to save Zeus and preserve the Order from Chaos, while Pandora she immolated herself so as to allow Chaos, represented by Kratos, to overthrow the corrupt Order personified by Zeus.

Time Athena once again claims that Kratos you deliver them there Hope, but the Spartan has had enough of the gods and the Titans: he throws himself on Sword of Olympus, sacrificing himself so that the Hope is no longer the prerogative of one or a few, but spreads among the (presumably few) mortals who survived the Elemental Chaos.

Athenafurious, she snatches the Sword of Olympus from the gut, then growls that the Spartan has disappointed her deeply; the Ghost of Sparta he replies that he no longer owes her anything, and through the (between) hole in the body of Kratos vediamo Athena who goes away, indignant. Shortly after the Ghost of Sparta he collapses to the ground, lifeless but finally at peace with himself.

Il Olympic pantheon was destroyed, as well as much of the Titans remained, of the legendary creatures and deadly themselves, at least those of the Hellenic area.

…Or maybe not!

On the one hand we know that Afrodite and her handmaids should still be alive, perhaps no longer so busy with their team activities, while on the other hand nothing is known about the fate of Morpheus, the silent ally of Persephone in Chains of Olympus, born di Artemide, the goddess of hunting who had entrusted us with the Sword of Artemis in the first God of War and presumably also in God of War: Betrayal.

We have no news even of Eos, the Dawn goddess we met in Chains of Olympus; already in that chapter, however, we are told that with the temporary disappearance of his brother Elio she had started losing her powers and fading, so let alone now that Elio was beheaded by Kratos.

After the credits, a bit in the style adopted by Marvel Cinematic Universe, there is the link for the next chapter of the saga: yes, because we see that where the lifeless body of Kratos now there is a long one trail of blood, which is lost beyond the edge of a nearby cliff, scenographically overlooking the new Primordial Chaos.

The scene recalls the Spartan's suicide in God of War and the attempts made more or less consciously in the other games, but there is a detail that cannot be overlooked: the shot widens, and we notice that the marble flooring, still wet from the blood of the Sacrifice di Kratos, shows the huge effigy of a phoenix that takes flight.

And the phoenix, as we know, is reborn from its own ashes, as (perhaps?) We will see in the next chapter: God of War (2018), set in the Nordic lands.

The cut parts of God of War 3

The author of God of War (2005) David Jaffe, in the course of an old edition of the San Diego Comic-Con one has broadly explained Alternative trama per God of War 3: after the death of Zeus, Our Kratos he would have to face the Egyptian pantheon and Norse gods, fighting alongside the Titans and to the surviving Olympic gods to decide once and for all which deities would reign over mortals.

In the end, however, the Spartan and the corresponding champions of the other two religions would have set off following a particular light in the sky, becoming in fact the Magi and starting the monotheistic religions that still persist today.

Balthasar, Melchior and Kaspar Kratos

The idea sounds pretty ridiculous and baseless, doesn't it?

Eppure nel holy of holies del Temple of the Moire / Parche we can find three murals rather evocative.

The first shows the Titanomachy, we do not know if the first (the original one) or the second (the one caused by Kratos), with two figures, in shadow and smaller than the others, who face each other in combat (perhaps they were Kratos and Deimos, originally?).

The second shows us a single survivor towering over the corpses of Titans and what it would seem gods and mortals.

In the third we see three figures in the desert, watching the stars in the sky.

Tell me if you don't think it is a representation of the Magi of the biblical tradition.

Kratos' messianic role

Now follow me: what if the death of the gods and Primordial Titans were nothing more than the prelude to the advent ofIt was of Men?

Oceans that rise causing floods and perhaps universal deluge (Poseidon), the darkening sun (Elio), locusts and diseases that plague living creatures (Hermes), and the souls of the dead roam the world (Ade), could not be references to Plagues of Egypt described in Book of Exodus?

There would also be the death of the firstborn, especially divine and titanic, and the rain of fire and hail (the Boreas ice storm and Liquid Fire of Hades, eg).

Maybe i Nephilim area of Genesis they are nothing more than the gods and heroes of antiquity, swept away by the Deluge and from the cataclysm from which the foundations of Jewish, Christian and Islamic civilization will emerge?

I conclude with a touch of further speculation, which I hope does not cross over into vulgar conspiracy: God of War 3 was published on 16 March, namely March 16th o 03/16 in US format.

John 3:16: For God loved the world so much that he gave his only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.

The biblical passage then continues as follows:

In fact, God did not send his own Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world may be saved through him.

Being son of Zeus, as well as redemption, catabasis (journey to the Underworld) And the sacrifice of Kratos they take on a whole other meaning in this unusual one Christian perspective, it's not true?

At the bottom the phoenix covered in the blood of Kratos it could also be a dove, perhaps the one that in biblical myth bring the olive branch back to Noè, symbolizing the end of the Great Flood, and the beginning of an era of peace for men.

Do you remember? The Noè of the myth makes a dove fly for three times, as well as three the deaths of Kratos: stabbed by a column thrown by Ares in God of War (2005), killed by Zeus in God of War II, and finally suicide in God of War III.

I leave you further reflections and speculations, and the Bear's Lair gives you an appointment, as always, for next Wednesday.