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02/16/11(Wed)23:55 No.23546527
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 Didn't get much response with this last night, but this thread seems more appropriate.
What do you think the pony after life is like? Are the Princesses, as gods, also the guardians of the shore betwixt life and death?
For some reason, I imagine the ponies as believing in a sort of old celtic dual-world reincarnation system. That is, when they die in the "real" world, they're reincarnated in the Otherworld, and when they die there they come back to Equestria. Perhaps it's because of that balance thing they seem to have whenever anything close to pony spirituality shows up, with the princess-yinyang symbol showing up occasionally to suggest a preoccupation with balance and cycles in their equilibrium. The thing about that is, it comes back to Celestia again because IIRC the celts had a thing about the sun being a sort of gateway between worlds, that they came closer together and allowed the passage of souls from one to the other during the hours of twilight, at dawn and dusk.
On the other hand, it's been established that lowering the sun means raising the moon and vice versa, so the twilight hours are the domain of both sisters. As well as which, Celestia has been depicted as very warm and motherly, so perhaps she just has charge over the "life" side of the equation; this fits with the sun as bringer of life, both in making plants grow and its influence over equine fertility. And the ponies, as a diurnal prey species, would necessarily see night as a time of danger and death, when all their worst predators are loose. Luna, in that case, might fill the role as mistress of death, with the light of her moon guiding ponies to the afterlife.
Perhaps that's why she's been missing for so long. Now she's back, she's busy having Sandman-esque adventures getting the pony underworld back into shape. |
