Quote Originally Posted by Vallavia View Post
This has actually been addressed in this thread, which explains essentially that the Cathedral was dedicated to Sephirot and that Eorzeans later appropriated the sun symbol the Meracydians used for him to represent Azeyma.
That’s not what that says.

That thing you linked says that the sun/Azeyma symbol the Allagans and the Meracydians used has the same origin that spread the symbol across the globe. The Allagans didn’t take that symbol from them.

In 1.0 there were Allagan runestones that would drop from leves or something that had the symbols of the Twelve on them and they could be traded in for special gear that gave an achievement when you equipped them all (I think the gear and achievements still exist). Considering that the Allagans eventually forsook religion and Meracydia wasn’t conquered until near the very end of the era, these runestones probably date to before Allag even knew Meracydia existed. So like that link says, the symbol for Azeyma has been around in both cultures before both cultures met.

The thing the Allagans did appropriate were the squiggly line runic patterns on some of the stonework around the temple.

The sun symbol has a shared origin for both civilizations, but it’s the other random runes that the Belah’dians mistakenly associated with Azeyma that are solely Meracydian yet show up in Qarn due to being copied from Allagan ruins which were copied from Meracydia. But all the symbols for the Twelve have been unchanged since the early Allag empire at the very least, if not well before that.