Interpreting the Rising Poem

[Anonymoose]

We always have threads for these on New Years, so why not, right?

As always, translations are amateur and unpolished.
Please suggest better translations if you spot anything that seems amiss. It can only help the final interpretations.

ENGLISH

Neath pillars of whorling strife,
founders the dross of despair.
O'er pillars of eddying life,
surge high the gales of prayer.
Flux and flow do the gyres,
joined by the crystal in thy keep.
Thy adamant spear bores steeps entire,
thy argent blade cleaves oceans deep.

JAPANESE

『渦巻く意思の円環の　底に積もるは　嘆きの澱
Swirling Ring of Will / Pooling at the Nether / The Dregs of Sorrow

逆巻く命の円環の　天に上るは　祈りの風』
Surging Ring Life / Rising up to Heaven / The Winds of Prayer

『流転する螺旋を繋ぐは　汝の水晶
Binding their Spiraling Flux / Thy Crystal

巌を穿つ金剛の槍　海原切り裂く白金の剣』
Piercing the Rock, the Adamantine Spear / Cleaving the ocean, the Silver Sword

GERMAN

Der Zweifel lähmt die schäumende Lebenskraft
The doubt paralyzes the frothing vital force

Er sinkt auf den Grund der Seele und lastet schwer
He sinks to the foundations of the soul and is weighed down

Die Hoffnung beflügelt die tosende Lebenskraft
Hope inspires thunderous vitality

Sie fliegt wie Gebete zum Himmel und tanzt umher
She flies like prayer to the skies and dances

Des Schicksals unabsehbare Windungen,
The destiny unforeseeably wanders

sie alle vereint bereits dein Kristall
already united within thy crystal

Er ist der felsdurchbohrende Speer,
He is the spear pierced into the stone

das Lichterschwert im hier und überall
the Blade of Light in here and everywhere

FRENCH

Au fin fond du cercle de la volonté,
In the depths of the circle of volition,

Les âmes déchaînées envoient leurs complaintes.
the souls unchained send their laments.

Au sommet du cercle de la vitalité,
At the summit of the circle of vitality,

Le souffle des prières arrive en terre sainte.
the breath of prayer arrives in the holy land.

La spirale des émotions et de la fatalité
The spiral of emotions and fate

Est contenue dans ton cristal de lumière.
Is contained within your crystal of light.

Solide comme la lance plantée dans un rocher,
Solid as the spear planted within the stone

Tranchant comme l'épée qui fend les vagues et l'air.
Sharp as the sword that cleaves the waves and the air.

Moose's First Guess at a Combination
Swirling vortex of will, at the bottom He laments in the descent of soul.
Spiraling vortex of life, at the summit She dances in the rise of prayer.
Emotions and fates in flux are as ever united within thy crystal(s of Light).
His is the spear that pierces the stone. Hers is the blade that divides the sea.



Now, if you've been following Hydaelyn and Zodiark very closely, this is almost entirely a recap and combination of all things previously associated with them. Zodiark is the Darkness, the moon, the force of Soul. Hydaelyn is the Light, the planet, the force of Life. The two are ever entwined and inseparable, their conflict embedded into time itself. Light & Shadow and Astral & Umbral are in all things.

The spear (of Darkness?) that pierces the stone..
The blade (of Light) that cuts the sea...

Who wants to take a stab at the deeper, more accurate meaning?