Offsite Post: ‘How Many Occult Themes Can They Pack into a Super Mario Game?’

 

We’re not here to spoil anyone’s enjoyment of Super Mario games (which we have enjoyed ourselves over the years), but sometimes, when reflecting on the content of a game like Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (GameCube, 2004), one has to wonder just what is going on at Nintendo and other video game companies.  The number of occult themes and other psy-ops is fairly astounding.

Beginning with one of the main antagonists of the game, Sir Grodus, there is a clear reference to transhumanism, as he is obviously part man and part machine:  In place of a brain there is a computer contraption of some sort.

He is after seven crystal stars, which contain the essence of the heavens and have been placed in different locations in the physical world, a strong echo of Gnosticism and its fragments of divinity trapped in human bodies.

The Shadow Queen, another major evil-doer in the game, desired to use the power in the crystal stars to remake the world according to her wishes.  This too is reminiscent of the evil Gnostic demiurge who creates a deformed world.

To bring the Shadow Queen back into the physical world from which she had been banished 1,000 years ago, Grodus concocts a plan to use Princess Peach as a vessel for her to inhabit.  Spirit possession is as old as the oracle of Delphi and as recent as the satanist Alice Bailey and her teachings.

Grodus is the leader of a group called the X-Nauts, which he describes as a secret society, hinting at occult groups like the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons. 

Their main base is located on the moon.  To get there, Mario must make use of a cannon in the Fahr Outpost, a region that resembles the polar regions.  And true to form, secret military bases have been established near the poles from time to time by real countries like the United States and Germany.

The main computer of the X-Naut moon base is called TEC, which has AI characteristics.  This is revelatory in two senses.  First, it foreshadowed the appearance of the AI bots we are all now becoming familiar with, like ChatGPT.  Second, there are NASA plans in place to build moon bases with autonomous robots.

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2023/02/garlington-how-many-occult-themes-can-they-pack-into-a-super-mario-game/.

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