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[SPEC/SEMI-OT] Goddess Durga is seen in India.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:06 pm

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chirs3 · Boot Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 18

A little more, though it may or may not have any relevance at all.

In Hindu mythology, Durga is a fierce form of Devi, the Mother Goddess, the all-powerful almighty goddess. According to a legend the gods could not defeat the buffalo demon Mahish, who was threatening the existence of the universe. They begged Shiva for his assistance, and Shiva advised all the gods to release their shaktis.

The shaktis of the gods emerged in female form. These goddesses fused together in blinding light from which arose a magnificent goddess with many arms. She was as beautiful as she was deadly. Durga was born fully-grown and is depicted as extremely beautiful and full of rage.

The gods called this goddess Durga, the invincible one, and they armed her with all their weapons. Thus armed, Durga rode to the top of a mountain on a lion. In a bloody battle, she defeated Mahish and his army of demons and thus saved the Universe from this demon's menace.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:13 pm

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archon · Decorated Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 250

One would think that the goddess should be the one doing the teaching...

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:21 pm

Nightmare Tony

Too bad the news report didnt have her words of wisdom. We heard that her first words of wisdom were I Love Bees...

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:26 pm

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chirs3 · Boot Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 18

Durga = All powerful goddess formed from the shakti's (?) of lesser gods and goddesses. The shakti's she's formed from were females. In ILB, she's a super advanced AI.

Melissa is female (as much as an AI can be). The Sleeping Princess is female too.

See where I'm going with this?

Whaddya think? Is this a dead end, or something worth investigating a little more?

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 1:35 pm

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Re: [SPEC/SEMI-OT] Goddess Durga is seen in India.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:00 pm

Atrophied

AHA!

I knew Bungie/Microsoft were behind all the worlds major religions. Razz

Atheism is the only way to be to avoid the commercial corruption of your soul.

j/k Razz

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:12 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 2:13 pm

Chao · Boot Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 4:54 pm

chirs3 · Boot Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 18

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 6:32 pm

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Chao · Boot Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

I was thinking more that the shakti was from humans, not previous AI. eg Durga could well be Yasmin.

Also the link might be based off of that but doesn't have to be taken completely. She might be all powerful, but maybe not save the universe, maybe it was done to throw us off (thinking she will save the universe), or saving the universe from the point of view of someone else (the covenant maybe).

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 8:07 pm

chirs3 · Boot Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 18

**Posted:** Tue Sep 28, 2004 10:28 pm

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Nightmare Tony

Let's see, my own spec:

Melissa: NOT covenant
Princes: NOT covenant
Flea: NOT covenant

Stories given to us: tells us of the haloverse.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 2:40 am

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Chao · Boot Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 10

[quote="chirs3

**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 9:45 am

Smoke

Think about this, though.

Suppose Humanity is descended from the Forerunner. (based on evidence in both the games and the novels, this isn't too far a stretch).

What did the Forerunner do? Utilize Halo and her sisters to destroy all sentient life in the galaxy.

The Covenent, upon seeing humans for the first time, bug out and *immediately* begin their holy war.

Maybe they think, unless humanity is destroyed, we can once again utilize Halo's weapon and make the same mistake our ancestors did thousands of years ago.

**Posted:** Wed Sep 29, 2004 3:16 pm

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