#so many religious undertones and overtones it drives me mad
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The Sua comic is so good it scratches the right cortical regions.
The remains of dead children are akin to snow -a hallmark of winter- to insinuate the cessation of existence. If Sua's sister is to be taken at face value, it is a ritual restricted to children. Mixing their remains in the grass they once walked on, in the only place that offers the vestiges of humanity as a bargain to elicit their most beautiful cries, is horrid.
Equating ashes with snow is such a twisted play on the connotation of purity the latter carries. But also, the remains are scattered under the starry night sky, as if to symbolise the glimmer of hope fading away. Or it could be seen as going back to the abode in the sky where God would have lived had they not been forgotten.
Anakt Garden represents a one-way trip to the afterlife, which is why Sua's sister references it as "hell", because it is frightening. She still has her instincts intact and fears death unlike those who grew up in the garden. However, Sua finds reprieve in this afterlife, morphing into a "heavenly garden", because she was found by Mizi, her delight, her enticing "paradise". In the end, she becomes a perfect victim of the system that ensnares all.
The entire world is built on a travesty of concepts as we know them, deprived of their most raw characteristics. Everyone has to return to the Great Anakt; ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
#alien stage#alnst stuff#very interested if the korean terms draw a distinction between heaven and paradise or use them synonymously#depending on which the second to last para is just babbling but i can dream#also want to throw in the garden of eden into the mix but i don't know enough to decide if it is best depicted by anakt garden or mizi#so many religious undertones and overtones it drives me mad#i really really need to study it better because my brain is chugging full speed ahead and I'm held behind by my lack of information on it#tempted to scream more its criminal what each update does to me#give mizi all the ammo to shoot with she needs to tear apart the cage disguised as heaven with her own two hands
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