Crazy yet somewhat plausible theories... Thread

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But Enur, Sephi was azeyma's inspiration not sophi

I dunno; I think there's a case to be made for plenty of connections between Azeyma and Sophia.

I mean, down to the red horns.

Azeyma is theoretically based on Egyptian sun goddesses; pretty much anyone related to the Eye of Ra, especially Wadjet, Bast, Shekmet ... even even Maat, Ra's daughter, whom interestingly is associated with order and holds the balance scales. (Hells, even Qarn has a little bit of the Ancient Egypt thing going on.) And Egypt associated divinity and royalty with the winged sun. The big head could be a literal representation of the GODHEAD via the mofits of the sun disc, with the wings coming right out of the face.

Granted I'm not overly familiar with the Sophia being invoked (who varies quite a bit over time), so the references might be more obvious.

I'm less certain about the idea that Sophia came first, though. If Eorzea is as special as everyone in Eorzea seems to think it is (and let's not dismiss the possibility of self-interest biases having an effect on our mythology), then all people and tales might have migrated out of Eorzea to begin with. The "seeds of faith" that led to Azeyma / Azim / Sophia might all have progenitors in an Eorzea during the Age of the Gods / Prehistory. We know too little about the age before the First Umbral Calamity to be too sure about anything.