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Seeking enlightenment or the Promised Land or the way home, a man would go or be forced to go into the wilderness, measure himself against the Creation, recognize finally his true place within it, and thus be saved both from pride and from despair. Seeing himself as a tiny member of a world he cannot comprehend or master or in any final sense possess, he cannot possibly think of himself as a god. And by the same token, since he shares in, depends upon, and is graced by all of which he is a part, neither can he become a fiend; he cannot descend into the final despair of destructiveness. Returning from the wilderness, he becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forebears and his heritage, and gives his blessing to his successors. He embodies the passing of human time, living and dying within the human limits of grief and joy.
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Japanese aristocratic families have ancient iranic steppe people DNA.
You will find the blood of the steppe in any culture that has horse archers and horse-nobility.
It appearing in FMA is not a coincidence. This concept is intrinsic to the human experience.
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@Leaflord I'm sorry for being such a weeb. I can't stop thinking of in FMA when Ed and Al are booted onto an isolated island with nothing and must learn to survive until they understand the connection between all life.
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In the anicent proto-indo-european tradition the concept of the initiatic wolf cult/adult initiation ritual had boys on the cusp of manhood united in a mannerbund, stripped of all clothing, given only a weapon and wolf/dog pelt to wear, and then outlawed by the tribe so that they may live in the wilderness as beasts. As outlaws they were given permission to do anything and in turn were allowed to be acted upon in any way.
They were only to return to the tribe once they had learned to be men.
I could go on about this concept for hours, but you get the gist.
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