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>>20333354
Continuing from my earlier Astagatyah idea, which includes two specific groups: Garuda (Suparna) and Naga (Baibao). Of all the factions to be related, it ought to be the Chinese and Indian ones, as they've been philosophically symbiotic for millennia. Anyway, Baibao means treasure, and this is because, as counterparts to the Garuda (their description states they and the Indian/Garuda group are two halves of a whole) the Naga is often depicted adorned with treasure/wealth/kingly status. In certain Asian countries, Naga are known for their wealth, as well. In fact, the Hindu myth, Naga reside in Patala Loka, filled with treasures and riches as both their owners and guardians.
We can continue this. Suparna's description says Baibao is deified for propaganda purposes. The meretricious, manipulative snake is also a very common archetype in mythology, and Baibao is clearly the object of deceit. Also the Japanese equivalent of the Buddhist Naga is the Japanese dragon which is really a pirated Chinese dragon, and dragons are perhaps more important to the Chinese than anyone else. It makes sense they would be connected.

Let's look at Grave Mole now. I squared this in undeniable red! https://i.imgur.com/4QgECXo.png
It's an И, which is a Cyrillic character. Russian is a Cyrillic language. Note their name: Grave Mole. A mole often refers to a traitor in espionage tactics. It's someone who scouts information ahead by melding into the target group. This is something the Russians were famous for, especially around the cold war, and it's something still attributed overwhelmingly to them above all else in media, even now.

This is right atop Suparna's own symbol: https://i.imgur.com/hgL2Tcu.png.. Compare its eyes, teeth, crown, and straddled flares at the sides to typical depictions of the Garuda in the following links:
https://i.imgur.com/e4v0qx1.png
http://karyabali.com/447-large_default/garuda-face.jpg
https://mapio.net/images-p/6488084.jpg

>>19449896
>>19446870
For those with magical ambitions: everyone should eventually read this:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/194Uc_W4nTMjJ6yzfV7WFVuY74zPhcivsam3EqijatXA/edit..

It's Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough, where he excoriated Frazer's barbaric views on religion while simultaneously eplicating magic as the end of metaphysics and religion, and that they are a form of magic. It's something I hark back to often in my magical studies, even in the Asian sphere. Let it be known that Remarks was originally a prelude to Philosophical Investigations, which draws from Schopenhauer's World as Will and Representation. So after Umineko, you would read Schopenhauer, Wittgenstein's Remarks then his Philosophical Investigations. They all build on and sublimate each other, and if you want a truly studied understanding of magic, these are crucial readings, especially for understanding Maria's role as an impending creator, in the production of your own grimoire (if you have an aptitude for it, in any case). The gestalt of these will guide you on its own, but you know where I took it.

>>18795954
This passage from World as Will really intrigued me (I was simultaneously reading Umineko): https://i.imgur.com/zS7zO0y.jpg.. Lambdadelta and Bernkastel embody forces of nature that motivate characters, and while Umineko explores the magical cosmology as a reader excoriation, the destructive boredom is critical to the voyagers, whose constituents are the spectators/readers in and out (us) of Umineko. The voyager is born of hardship, seeks fleeting happiness, rests in languor while the illusion persists, and suffers until the next game, suspended by their immortality.
Magic is the ineffable and impalpable motivation which precedes Schopenhauer's will and everything else. Since it's ineffable, we can only discuss its effects and never it for itself, like the elusive mechanism of the hand of the clock's movement—creating 1 from 0, the sea of nothingness. It's said this is the domain of creators, but all magic is creation from nothing.

Nagarjuna's metaphor offers the same idea. "As a magician creates a magical illusion by the force of magic, and the illusion produces another illusion, in the same way the agent is a magical illusion and the action done is the illusion created by another illusion." Haworthia expanded on this perforating and percolating magic, actually, with it's eighth track (https://soundcloud.com/mgraveyard/08-vocal4-sample).). Sky of Sunyata is a hymn precisely to Nagarjuna's Madhyamakan magic, who was also born Hindu (this is how we connect him to Schopenhauer, who loved the Upanishads Nagarjuna knew well).

As for the Lambda/Bern duality, yeah, they are a duality, but that's like settling on Dante's influence extending merely to Beatrice/Virgilia's names and the stakes.

>>18801975
Cause it's an easy conclusion to reach and abdicates the intellectual process on the conspirator's part!! For real don't worry about it though.

>>18802084
Thank you for appreciating my heartfelt Lambdaposting!