Recommended books to decyper The Big O...

[AuthenticAuthor]

Hey gang, it's been YEARS since I've been here. Anyway, I just got done reading From the Ashes of Angels by Andrew Collins, and I have to say...it blew my mind. It's concerning ancient archaeological history. ANCIENT ancient history! I don't want to spoil anything, but here's a synopsis anyway:

Angels depicted in the Book of Enoch, and other similar stories in in the middle-east, appear to be more like advanced bird-shamans in both their attire and their apparent knowledge. The culture of these angels at one point clashed with other cultures to the point where inter-relations between angels and man were either seen as demi-gods or as demons The same culture is responsible for the construction of Eden, perhaps located in the mountains of Kurdistan nearby Lake Van, and is reflected in the neolithic ruins of Catal Hoyuk in Turkey, as well as dozens of underground cities in similar regions. They ultimately are the descendants of ancient elder cultures of Egypt, who probably had a hand in constructing the Sphinx, which is evidenced to be constructed close to the end of the Last Ice age...


I'm just wondering if anyone in the forums has read it yet. Right now I'm starting on a book called Fingerprints of the Gods, which is even more remarkable in my opinion. Straight to the point, both books imply that long ago human civilization essentially "lost its memory" after great cataclysms spanning thousands of years, only to re-discover many technologies later on. Fascinating! I hope I'm not the only one who thinks the Big O makers probably read similar books. Let me know what you think.

[R. Daniel 01]

Interesting premise for the books.

I don't think the creators are necessarily doing that, though. I mean, besides the fact that these books are in English and the writers were Japanese. I think what inspired the premise for Big O was Japan's attempts to forget WWII.

[AuthenticAuthor]

Well, I just got finished with Fingerprints of the Gods, quite fascinating if rather controversial. An excellent read for anyone interested in why our ancient history is so limited, although much of it is speculation.

I've now gone on to start reading The Rise and Fall of Atlantis and the Mysterious Origins of Human Civilization, and I wish I had this book in my Humanities courses back in college. J.S. Gordon first explains how the ancient Greeks and Egyptians thought about existence itself, which they believed was a fusion of both Subjective and Objective worlds (a.k.a., the Kosmos). On top of that, the both civilizations believed in the principles of Memory and Imagination being the characteristics of all things in existence. Memory was just a tendency to do as one does without an alternative; Imagination, on the other hand, is self-explanatory.  However, both Memory and Imagination are one and the same in everything; they are just in different proportions (an example: a rock has memory, but little imagination). As weird as this may sound, they believed that the Kosmos was held within a Mind, and that everything moved according to its evolutions and cycles.

Ah, so now I understand what Schwartzwald meant when he quoted Shakespear "Imagination and Memory are one, but for diverse considerations have diverse names".

But what about that underground EXPO that we saw in Episode 3? What was that about? Well, the Greeks had organized their order of gods depending on their geographical locations. Hades, the God of the underworld, represented the absence of a divine spark (hence, the allusion to death, and hence that ghostly megadeuce in Big O). The upper portion, where Zeus sits atop Mount Olyumpus, represents the realm of divinity. The middleground, being humanity, is just that; a middle ground. So, now we have a good symbolic explanation for Episode 3, as well as a symbolic explanation for the domes, and the BIG dome across Paradigm City; they're representative of these jurisdictions of Greek philosophy.

Any takers? I'm sure I'm getting some of my history wrong.