Some incoherent mumbling about LoZ: Twilight Princess

[troldtog]

This is all elanaranne's fault. I deny any responsibility for my getting sucked back into Legend of Zelda fandom when I have a ton of work to do. Nope. I'm not choosing to procrastinate, it is being forced upon me. Curse you, Naranne, destroyer of productivity.
(I'm pretty sure it's abundantly clear already, but just to be on the safe side: I'm only

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[reasonandmusic]

*grin* It may be completely my fault, but it's still pretty good! (Also, the amount that I had to zoom in to read the small print, honestlyOn religion

[troldtog]

I think this sounds exactly right. Part of this might be that Hylian religion -- I'd bet -- has a much weaker notion of providence and a preordained future than Christianity. Speaking of “God's The Goddess' plan" doesn't carry the same sense of inevitability as it does in our religious conversations. Rather, you've got this odd cycle where the same villain is resurrected over and over again and the future is very much dependent on the actions of a few specific individuals. It might be that the Goddesses are perfectly capable of planning and intervening in the Hylian world, seeing to it someone suitable to carry the triforces of wisdom/courage are born and the like, but those plans don't have the weight of “what they will, will happen." Long story short: I can't imagine people seeing the Goddesses as omnipotent (which is great because then no one has to worry about that theodicy stuff, and, really, spares us the existence of theology entirely -- thank heavens