>>90969

Interesting.

Also, I thought of something regarding Mario 64.

Apparently, Hermes/Mercury is actually a popular symbol in Freemasonry and one of the symbols associated with him is the tortoise.

People who call the Mario 64 Masonic ritual theory "schizo" don’t actually realize that Mario being Hermes actually makes sense, as lots of Masonic sources say that he is one of the founders of Freemasonry.

Quoted from a Masonic website: "In all the old manuscript records which contain the Legend of the Craft, mention is made of Hermes as one of the founders of Freemasonry. Thus, in the Grand Lodge Manuscript, No. 1, whose date is 1583 and the statement is substantially and almost verbally the same in all the others that "The great Hermarines that was Cubys sonne, the which Cubye was Semmes sonne, that was Noes sonne. This same Hermarines was afterwards called Hernes the father of Wysdome; he found one of the two pillars of stone, and found the science written therein, and he taught it to other men."

Albert Pike even talks about this in his book, Morals & Dogma, about how Hermes and Hermetic doctrine are "critical to understanding Freemasonry."

Hermes has even thought to be the founder of alchemy, so Mario turning into quicksilver (Mercury) makes sense in a alchemist esoteric way.

One of the playing card brands Nintendo created was named Napoleon after the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and Napoleon is very popular symbol for Masons as Freemasonry flourished under his rule.