Wizzies, moderating retards deleted this from /dep/. I don't know why.
So, I just watched “G/irls' Last Tour" for the first time, and must manfully concede that I cried toward the end; but my confessing my tears is not the meaning of this thread. Instead I wanted to share a theory I had on what the animated cartoon was ultimately about. So with these words first emplaced I would like to say that I think “G/irls' Last Tour" is an analogy for Gnosticism. And because I haven't discovered anyone else to have advanced this theory on the internet, I wanted to share it here. To begin:
1. the world they journey through is like our own (a cave, a darkened emptiness (kenoma), a place with very little comfort). the first words in the show spoken by the g/irls are “It’s so dark” which again directly resound after the gnostic position of this perceptible world being a dimly lit cave.
2. they face death constantly
3. they face uncertainty constantly
4. they exist as aliens to a lifeless world ultimately holding fast to a journey hopefully purposed to lead them to a safer place (just as in gnostic thought, the pneumatic styles himself an ἀλλογενὴς, that is, a foreigner, someone of a different kind, someone journeying through a world that is not his own, and out of which he must ultimately fly)
5. their friendship and shared love for one another are used as the unique means of sustaining them through their difficult journey through this dead painful world (requiting care for each other is one of the most important things in this almost impossible life)
6. in one episode the g/irls by chance briefly fall into an environment that is totally light-less, completely pitch black, and once they re-achieve their way they come upon an effigy of a light-giving god and the dialogue is something like : "maybe people created this god as a way of making themselves less afraid of death"
7. in another episode the g/irls see a red sun. in platonism, the helios noetos (or noetic sun) is considered the highest object of worship, and sometimes it is said to be red in color.
8. the god they meet at the end is essentially a mushroom god whose body is full of light
9. mushrooms (in poetical occultic language) have often been called "repositories of light" or "living stones" . even in the pythagoreans’ own practical code, “light” or “light-worship” claims a very large part, with one of the akousmata reading:
“περὶ Πυθαγορείων ἄνευ φ
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