[Platinum Sun]

When I get bored I often start fires think about stuff that doesn't matter in the slightest. Once such occasion occurred when I had been playing TLA for periods much longer than is healthy. I began to notice that the planets appeared often in the games and I started looking to see if there were examples for all of them. The only one I couldn't find an example for was Uranus. Most of the indirect refrences seem to come from the way that the Romans ripped off all the Greek gods. I'll list off the ones I have and see if anyone else can come up with missing ones or better examples than the ones I have. I'll try to edit this post with an updated list whenever I can.

Mercury: Water Element, Hermes (As in "Hermes' water.") was the greek name for the roman god Mercury

Venus: Earth Element, (Greek name was "Aphrodite" maybe that's in there somewhere...)

Earth: Weyard is an Earth-like world, Gaia is derived from Gaea, the greek word for "Mother Earth"

Mars: Fire element

Jupiter: Wind Element

Saturn: Sautros, Father of the Titans (As in Titan Blade)

Uranus: I got nothin'

Neptune: Neptune is a level 3 Mercury Summon, Poseidon (the boss) was his greek name

Pluto: Charon (the summon) is Pluto's moon.

Well I hope that I have sucessfully projected my boredom onto you.

[Folcon]

Gaia is also the Titian of Earth, in greek myth.

[Nosferatu]

Alright. One, you have stolen my ****ing line. Two, nice list. Very err, random of the day. Yah.
And don't worry. Playing games for bad limits of time = good thing. I played KoTOR till 5am last night.

[Aquamarine]

Hm, interesting, but I can't think of anything else.

Gaia Axe releases Mother Earth. Don't know if that counts...

[FlamingDuck]

Lots of games have planetary allusions. And whoever came up with the name "Uranus" was some kind of freakin' sadist.

[Folcon]

I'm think Uranus, was Saturn's brother, but I'm not sure.

[Nyktos]

Uranus was Saturn's father.

[Folcon]

wasn't sure, it's hard to keep the generations straight

it goes Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter

[Saturos S.]

u-r-anus... = Garet's best joke.

[Folcon]

grow up Sarturos

[Saturos S.]

Why can't anyone spell Saturos properly. It isn't that hard y'know...

...

It wasn't a childish joke, it was a classic one. Please do note the diffrence between the two.

[Folcon]

Saturos Striker, on May 21 2007, 03:44 PM, said:

Why can't anyone spell Saturos properly. It isn't that hard y'know...

Because we want to see how you will react.

[King Hydros]

There are alot of little quirks about the game.

Like have you ever the connection between lemuria and Atlantis?

Or the fact the Gondowonaland looks like South America and that Angara looks like North america?

Indra looks like india, Tundraria looks like antartica?

Just to point out some real world references.

[Ironsight]

Great bump :D

[Split Infinity]

It's not Gondowonaland, it's just Gondowan. :D

[Platinum Sun]

Still some good examples. I've also noticed Lemurés from FF XII.

Lol plaigraism >:[

[Eugine]

Spam King, on Jan 19 2008, 01:48 AM, said:

It's not Gondowonaland, it's just Gondowan. :D

It's really annoying when you pick out one mistake, and ignore the excellence of the other posts >.>

Well, anyway do anyone have an English version of this map? I can't really recall the location of every continent...
http://www.geocities.com/goldensunharmony/...tage/gs2map.JPG

[Dudeus Maximus]

I always thought of Angara/Gondowan as more of a Europe/Africa type thing... I'd say Atteka and Hesperia count as the North/South America equivalents, I mean, Moapa looks like your typical "American Indian." If you notice, Angara and Gondowan are more extensively settled, and there are what, two villages in all of Atteka and Hesperia? So yeah, that makes the most sense to me in terms of location.

[Toasty]

Well it was the shape that made the other two seem like North and South America. And I suppose the Anemos ruins could be compared to the Aztek.

[Platinum Sun]

.eugine, on Jan 19 2008, 02:11 PM, said:

I can't really recall the location of every continent...

VGmaps.com has some good ROM-ripped maps, but nothing like that one. I believe a copy of that map came with the game, if you still know here you left your instructions.

[Dudeus Maximus]

Dude of Wind, on Jan 20 2008, 06:11 AM, said:

Well it was the shape that made the other two seem like North and South America. And I suppose the Anemos ruins could be compared to the Aztek.

Well if you look at the shape... and look at Europe and Africa, it's almost the same thing.

[Moonear]

Madra(s) is a real city in India. If you look in one of the ovens, it says that they're making tandoori chicken, which is an Indian chicken dish.

[Laharl]

.eugine, on Jan 19 2008, 07:11 PM, said:

Well, anyway do anyone have an English version of this map? I can't really recall the location of every continent...
http://www.geocities.com/goldensunharmony/...tage/gs2map.JPG

that map has got me wanting to play Golden Sun again XD

i'm bored so here's an awful lot of mythology references from the games

Summons

-Venus: Goddess of Love (Roman)
-Ramses: Legendary Pharaoh (Egypt)
-Cybele: Goddess of Fertile Earth (Phrygian)
-Judgement: likely a reference to the judgement of the dead found in much mythology
-Mars: God of War (Roman)
-Kirin: Mythical Chimerical Creature (Japanese)
-Tiamat Goddess of Chaos (Babylonian)
-Meteor: No reference to myth, although the sight of one was considered an omen in much of mythology
-Jupiter: Chief of the Gods (Roman)
-Atalanta: Legendary Huntress (Greek)
-Procne: sister to Philomela, wife of Tereus, and mother of Itys (Greek)
-Thor: God of Thunder (Norse)
-Mercury: Messenger of the Gods (Roman)
-Nereid: Sea Nymphs (Greek)
-Neptune: God of the Sea (Roman)
-Boreas: God of the North Wind, Chief of the four wind gods (Greek)
-Zagan: a Great King and President of Hell (Dermonology)
-Megaera: One the Erinyes, cause of Jealousy and Envy (Greek)
-Flora: Goddess of Flowers (Roman)
-Moloch: King of the Gods (?) (Hebrew)
-Ulysses: Roman name of rhte hero Odysseus (Roman)
-Eclipse: comes from the Greek "ékleipsis" meaning "I cease to exist"
-Coatlicue: Mother of the Gods (Aztec)
-Azul: No reference to myth, Spanish and Portuguese for 'Blue'
-Haures: a strong Great Duke of Hell (Dermonology)
-Daedalus: Master Artificier, Father of Icarus and Iapyx (Greek)
-Catastrophe: No reference to myth, although could be associated with civilisation ending events
-Charon: Ferryman of the River Styx (Greek)
-Iris: Goddess of the Rainbow + a Messenger of the gods (Greek)

right i'll do unleashes and equipment when i can be arsed

[Folcon]

Isn't Iris also the wife of Ra in Egyptian myth?

[Saturos S.]

escout, on Jan 21 2008, 04:20 PM, said:

Isn't Iris also the wife of Ra in Egyptian myth?

Nah, that's Isis.

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Isis is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. She is the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypal wife and mother.

[Folcon]

oh, right. well I was close. I remember now, in one of the books I read, there is a goddess named Iris that is the wife of the chief god. And that story's gods are based of Egyptian myth. That's how I got confused.

[Laharl]

yeah, Iris/Isis = totally different deities

finally a use for my A-level in Classical Civilisation XD

i'm thinking 'new thread' for the equipment and ****

[Saturos S.]

That could give me a new reason to play GS/ GS:TLA.