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What this story entails is that curiosity killed the cat, and that knowledge is seen by God as both an asset and a threat. And humanity, at some point, understood that. Which is why the ancestors of the Sumeru Akademiya created the Six Cardinal Sins. Today, I want to break down the Six Cardinal Sins of Wisdom and how these have actually been broken in not only the history of Genshin, but also in the stories of the characters we know in present time. So today, Welcome to how Teyvat broke the Six Cardinal Sins of Wisdom, where I will be analyzing and breaking down the self-imposed limitations to knowledge.
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I think Baizhus constellation is most definitely going to be an Ouroboros, a snake biting its own tail, and the symbol of immortality/infinity
It’s odd seeing six deadly sins. Is there a possible seventh, or is that just how it is?
be me
a student in sumeru
studies etymology
be branded a heretic
0:25 wait, I thought the cat was either alive and dead
meliodas meeting venti🥶💀
The story about the meaning of words is very interesting indeed. It reminds me of two things, no, three – the first is how language sciences have found common word roots throughout human societies that show we migrated from a common people, the second is how in many folklores knowing the 'true name' of things gives you supernatural or godlike power over them (which immediately makes me think of the irminsul data rewriting history and ella musk learning the language of monsters who are actually people)
The third is the legend of the tower of babylon, where humanity once spoke a common tongue, and it gave them power to coordinate and organise enough to build the titular tower in the aim of touching the firmanent. God took offense to their hubris and made all humans speak in different tongues, which threw humanity into disarray and the project was never completed.
Now that i think about it, the cult of early judaism that worshipped Yah eventually made the one god YHWH forbidden to name and forgot about his original pronounciaton
Me hearing the six cardinal sins
“Isn’t that like Dottore’s whole existence”
Venti sloth
Nahida envy
Raiden wrath
Zhong Li Greed
Tsaritsa Lust
Goddess of Flowers: Inquire NOT of the mysteries of the Sky and the Abyss..
Adventurers' Guild: Ad astra abyssosque! – They boldly venture "up to the stars, down to the abyss," or so their motto would have you believe.
The Guild soon be seeing a Celestial projectile 👀👀
What is the other hydro character related to astrology beside Mona?
The cutscene of nahida in the intro where is it from….. haven't seen that in game so was wondering. 1:07
I will really like to watch it if anyone drop a link, thanks.
many points of this video feel like a critique of today's society, which makes me wonder if the world's flaws were the inspiration for these six deadly sins
15:34 I like the fact that when talking about those who are truly knowledgeable you show the three oldest archons; it's a nice little detail that fits the topic pretty well.
Thanks for the video, it was really interesting, i'm going to spew probably nonsense but istaroth may be a reference to judas iscariot, one of the twelve disciples, who would, coincidentally, then be represented by the fatui harbringers, which are eleven beacuse the main traitor to god has already been exiled outside of time or something like that.
"You play genshin impact ? Well then, tell me all six cardinal sins of wisdom."
"Dottore."
"That's on me, I set the barto low…"
Hmm with the investigate the origin of words, couldn’t you relate that to how to us the names of the archons relate to the Ars Goetia? I mean to us they are the names of demons and that in itself has soooo many connotations. Imagine what would happen if the teyvatians knew what we did about the archons’ names? I don’t think it’s a coincidence after all.
I have a pimon theory i want some thoughts on my theory is that pimon is not the unknown god or the heavenly principles but a physical manifestation of our power they did not just split the elements but split a part of us the reason pimon is coverd in consultations and has star eyes and is the only one of her kind maybe sometime in the end we will get all the elements and not get or powers back until pimon sacrifice her self to merge and give us our power back it would hurt emotionally and it would be a interesting twists right?
It would be funny if the seventh sin was erased from history like rukhadevata
The lore community gonna get blasted for the sin of language after reading all those ars goetia, commedia dell arte, etc
will now i started googling some philosophies stuff. what a day
My theory is that it is forbidden for people to learn the origin of words because they might discover something that has been cancelled from Irminsul. Erasing informations from Irminsul doesn't work perfectly as we have learned from Scaramouche's story quest, and all the things that have been written under the guise of allegory or metaphor are saved anyway. If the thing is not directly related with the information erased, it will remain as well.
Human speech is filled with metaphors and allegories, and it's also filled with words that are closely related to cultural heritages, therefore, history. If what the story quest said it's true, even when you cancel history, some cultural things are gonna survive, and therefore, searching for the origin of a certain word may lead right back to the erased piece of history. So for example: in 300 the protagonist says "we will dine together in hell tonight", and it has been heavily criticised because, of course, Romans didn't know any hell. They knew Inferos, which was the roman and greek otherworld. Nowadays, the word is used in the form of "Inferno", which is also the word that describes a situation of utter chaos in a metaphorical way. Let's say at some point in history I cancel from Irminsul the information about the Romans existing. Maybe the word inferno will disappear in the literal meaning of "otherworld", but will it do the same in the meaning of "utter chaos"? Maybe not. And if it doesn't, tracing back from that metaphor, wouldn't bring the scholar back to the Romans?
this may also be the same reason why Istaroth is wrote backwards, to avoid Irminsul from cancelling the infos about her existance.
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That was a great theory, I liked it a lot. I just wanted to mention one case from the manga that you didn't: Dottore used the soul of his subordinate Krupp in order to use it in a ruin hunter. This is pretty much the sin of tempering with life and death. Although, I am pretty sure that by this time Dottore has actually committed by now all of these sins of wisdom in his manic pursuit of knowledge.
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I always come to this channel once a day for my daily dose of teyvat lore
If Alice is capable of going outside of Teyvat is she affected by Irminsul changes? maybe that's why she did Wanderer's miscellany, cause Dain forgot but she didn't.
isent it above the firnament was water, a sea, then after "The great flood" it became a vaccume?
"Consider it going to a church, praising the name of the Lord without actually doing any of the deeds that youre supposed to do!"
But thats exactly what most of the "religious god loving people" do 👀
Who is the second astrologist ? Mona’s master? Because Layla is a cryo user.
I still cannot believe that there is more to this game than doing sidelines and exchanging resins. heck even a fowl have some lore with it about making every desperate soul a marksman
Aster, do you have any theories as to why there is an irminsul branch at the eternal oasis, behind the island in the middle?
My guess with the search for the origins of words bring prohibited is that this search would eventually lead to the knowledge that Celestia isn't from this world, that there was a Primordial god, also not from this world, who brought humans with them into Genshin's world. From there, my theory branches into 2 possibilities:
1st: Language in Teyvat was introduced by the Primordial One, who taught humans how to speak, read and write, with whoever rules Celestia not wanting humans to know about the Primordial One's existence.
2nd: By learning that humans don't originate from Teyvat, the search for the origin of words would lead to searching for the universe from which the Primordial One brought humans from, which also encompasses that universe travelling sin, and Celestia doesn't want ppl to know the universes outside of the Genshin one.
Both of these branches would have the same result: severe punishment from Celestia and/or the Guardian of Heavenly Principles, which would explain why the Akademiya advises against these actions by labelling them as "Cardinal Sins"
As for how the Akademiya would know these cardinal sins would lead to severe punishment, my guess would be that they saw the ppl of Khaenrih'ah doing it, and we all know how well that went for them, so the sages advised against that stuff
(I based all this stuff from what I know of Genshin's lore, probably mostly from the book of Sun and Moon, idk lol)
6:55 to 7:00
"I wonder who is next to commit such atrocities"
Not only was there Signora's coffin but it cut off to an ad for genshin impact fighting child as a weekly boss 🤣🤣
Boys I think we got our answer 😂😂😂
I love how Dottore managed to commit all of them in a row multiple times, my man's keeping up his track
"Too much knowledge can be dangerous" – Winston Churchill.
So basically
If these rules are broken long enough
Honkai would fall upon the civilization
That's why Celestian is not bad
Everything in Teyvat that Celestia imposed seems to revolve around the number seven. There are seven Archons ruling seven nations, who embody seven ideals, who represent seven elements. That's a lot of sevens lol. So while there are six sins stated here, I think it's inevitable that there will be a seventh imposed. I think all of these six things are sins because they could lead to people learning the truth of the world, which Celestia doesn't want to happen, even if that's not exactly why they were put in place by the sages. So I wonder what new rule Celestia will impose?
i like to call the six deadly sins as the "six sillies" because basically if you get too silly, you die
Well, they are Demon gods for a Reason.
The part with the cycle of life and death and trying to surpass it reminds me of Fullmetal Alchemist and how the Elric brothers tried to revive their mother but they couldn't and instead created something that did not even resemble a human and had to deal with the consecuences of what happened in both versions of the show(in the first I believe the consecuences are bigger and more dramatic for them because their creation haunts them throughout the show,while in Brotherhood their selfish decision created a domino effect that almost doomed their country)
Tbh I thought the words one was just a way to not have to think too much about using common phrases in genshin that relate to the real world