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Satya Yuga: bodybuilding magazines era, pre social media
Treta Yuga: bb misc (zyzz era)
Dvapara Yuga: /fit/ golden years (pre 2016)
Kali Yuga: tiktok/instagram gymbro culture

Prometheus may have been punished, but man will always have fire. As Goethe seemed to say in Prometheus, neither titan nor god can touch man now; all are effectively equals under Time and Fate. Perhaps the lesson is not to never play with fire but to not get burned.

And of course, Solar virtue is the means to cultivating the ideal form of fire, which destroys all that is not pure. If one is careful, wielding it will burn away one's impurities; if not, one will be totally destroyed.

Happy birthday to the king.

I searched superficially to see if anyone has made an explanation of the symbology of the Behelit in the Berserk manga and haven't found much, so decided to post the similarities that the Behelit posesses with a "baetylus" or Omphalos. The quotations I will be using are from René Guénon's King of the World.

"There are [other] symbols in ancient traditions which represent the 'centre of the world', one of the most remarkable and widely spread of which is that of the Omphalos. In Greek the word signifies 'umbilical', but in a general sense describes everything that is central, and in particular the hub of a wheel. The Sanskrit nabhi has the same connotations, as do various words in the Germanic and Celtic languages derived from the same root, found in the forms 'nab' and 'nav'. In Gaelic, 'nav' or 'naf', which is plainly identical with these, carries the sense of 'chief' and is even applied to God; so it is indeed the idea of a central Principal that is being expressed. The meaning of 'hub' is particularly important to this issue as the wheel
universally symbolizes the world rotating around a fixed point - a symbolism also associated with the sw****ka."

Hence the second image that appears in the intro to the chapters, alluding to the Principle of Centrality, and adequately, displaying the image of the Behelit.

"The material representation of the Omphalos usually consisted of a sacred stone, commonly called [in French] a 'betyle', a word apparently none other than the Hebrew Beith-El or 'House of God'.* This name was the name given by Jacob to the place where the Lord manifested Himself to him in a dream: 'And Jacob awoke from his sleep and said; "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not." And he was afeared and said: "How awesome is this place! It is the house of God and the door to Heaven." And Jacob arose early in the morning and took with him the stone on which he had laid his head, made it into a pillar and poured oil over it to consecrate it. And he named this place Beith-El. [...] should be made clear that Beith-El applies not only to the place but to the stone itself: 'And this stone that I have raised as a pillar will be the house of God.'"

In this excerpt there are two things that can be abstracted: the motif of a sacred stone representing the centre of the world, being used as a symbol to the ideal of a sacred pole, sacred mountain, axis, centrality. And also of the name itself in linguistic terms. It is congruent that Miura took the artistic freedom to change (Be-it-hEl) into (Be-hEl-it).

"Thus, this stone must be the true 'divine habitation' (mishkan), the seat of the Shekinah, although the designation was later transferred to the Tabernacle. All this relates naturally to the subject of 'spiritual influences' (berakoth), so that when the 'cult of stones', common to so many ancient peoples, is mentioned, it can be seen at once that is was not the stones themselves that were worshipped but the Divinity residing in them."

Another striking similarity would be the oval shape that the Behelit has, alluding tot the idea of the Egg, related to birth, potential, creation.

"Another version of the Omphalos was an ovoid, which would bring it into direct relationship with another extremely important symbol, the 'Egg of the World, notably with the Celts and the Egyptians"

And the similarities goes on. Don't wanna make it too long, so I will leave the rest of the similarities with the reader, who can make correlations with all the aspects of the Behelit in the manga.

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10 years bros...

Even if the age of adventure is over, there is still big opportunity for adventure in the modern world if you have courage. But many are too attached to comfort and rather tell themselves "there's no adventure nowadays".

There are still ongoing wars in exotic places, wars in the seas, international crime, even (to a lesser extent) adventurous jobs.

Nothing is stopping you from walking all over Europe on foot like many ancients did.

Nothing is stopping you but yourself. Do you think the adventurous men in the past didn't leave anything behind? Their homely lives, their friends, family, their possessions.
Their yearning for adventure were just bigger than their desire for comfort. Meanwhile many complaining that they live too much in comfort, when in reality, nothing is stopping them from giving up that safety and experience life.