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Yes! I love the fact that some of Will Martin's blog posts are on Yu Yevon in the world of Final Fantasy X. The entirety of that game's story line is still a bit fuzzy to me because I have yet to entirely play through it all. However, it is quite a populous game among my friends that we talk about it here and there when talking about video games, so I pick up patches of the story line here and there. The way Will Martin describes the religion of Yu Yevon in Spira of the Final Fantasy X game is very well done. I don't think that I could have described it that accurate or detailed. What I would like to focus on is this whole of idea of 'Sin,' the physical embodiment of the sinners of Spira.
Rereading some of the Psalms that we were told to reread from last class, Psalm 23 caught my attention after I read Will Martin's blogs. It seemed as though Psalm 23 was talking about 'Sin' if not from the point of view of 'Sin.' The whole idea of lying down and being guided by the waters fits 'Sin's' description quite well because 'Sin' is basically kind of like a whale like creature. Like Will Martin said, when a summoner and his guardian sacrifice themselves to try and appease the beast, he only goes away for ten years before he returns to wreak havoc and another summoner and his guardian must sacrifice themselves again for ten more years of peace. Also, Yu Yevon turns out to be evil or something, at least against you, because in the end you have to fight and defeat him.
It is like Psalm 23 says, 'My life He brings back' because there is really no way to kill off 'Sin' for he just keeps coming back. And then in the end of Psalm 23 it says, 'And I shall dwell in the house of the LORD / for many long days.' This is like 'Sin' dwelling away for ten years during which is known as 'the Calm.' I sort of see this Psalm 23 as the speaker or the writer being 'Sin' which would then make him a creature of and for the LORD. I know that this is perhaps an entirely different way to interpret the Psalm but it is certainly plausible. What I mean by this is what is thought of as being 'good' could very well be 'evil' and vice versa because it is all about perspective, whichever point of view that you are coming from.