Link’s Awakening - The Highest Hero’s Journey

[DaHonorableCourt]

Spoiler Alert! - TLOZ: Link’s Awakening

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I just finished The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for Nintendo Switch. I found it an extremely beautiful symbolization for the highest hero’s journey (spiritual journey) that Leo outlined in his video. I don’t think its a coincidence that the game is called Link’s Awakening.

 

Basically you as the hero Link, are in a storm on a ship, which causes you to be shipwrecked on an Island. You meet a couple of people, including the girl Marin, till a talking owl (mentor) sends you on a quest to Awaken the Wind Fish, who sleeps in a giant egg on top of a mountain in the island.

To Awaken him you must fight the “Nightmares” (dungeon bosses - threshold guardians). The Nightmares are the entities who keep the Wind Fish asleep.

Just before fighting the final Nightmare, which is inside the giant Egg, you find out why the Nightmares are keeping the Wind Fish asleep; the whole Island is but a dream created by the Wind Fish! So the Nightmares must keep the Wind Fish asleep to survive. If the Wind Fish Awakens, they cease to exist.

IRL the Nightmares are of course the Ego, which doesn’t want you to Awaken, because this would mean that the Ego dies. And the Wind Fish is consciousness/God.

Of course you defeat the final boss and you Awaken the Wind Fish.

The Wind Fish Awakens, and recognizes he was dreaming the Island up, and that now the dream has ended, the entire island and its population will disappear, including the girl Marin, the first person who Link met on the island, and who has become Link’s friend.

“Come, Link, let us Awaken together!” says the wind fish. The Island disappears and Link wakes up on his ship, where it all began. He sees a final glimpse of the Wind Fish flying above him. Did Link awaken the Wind Fish or was he Awakening himself the whole time?

Link remembers Marin, and how she said that it was always her dream to fly across the ocean. With this in mind, you see a seagull flying over. Even though the dream is over, the essence of the dream can never be lost.

The End. 
 

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by DaHonorableCourt

[DaHonorableCourt]

@Meta-Man Cool, can you share some examples of parallels you found?

 

[Inliytened1]

3 hours ago, DaHonorableCourt said:

I just finished The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for Nintendo Switch. I found it an extremely beautiful symbolization for the highest hero’s journey (spiritual journey) that Leo outlined in his video. I don’t think its a coincidence that the game is called Link’s Awakening.

 

Basically you as the hero Link, are in a storm on a ship, which causes you to be shipwrecked on an Island. You meet a couple of people, including the girl Marin, till a talking owl (mentor) sends you on a quest to Awaken the Wind Fish, who sleeps in a giant egg on top of a mountain in the island.

To Awaken him you must fight the “Nightmares” (dungeon bosses - threshold guardians). The Nightmares are the entities who keep the Wind Fish asleep.

Just before fighting the final Nightmare, which is inside the giant Egg, you find out why the Nightmares are keeping the Wind Fish asleep; the whole Island is but a dream created by the Wind Fish! So the Nightmares must keep the Wind Fish asleep to survive. If the Wind Fish Awakens, they cease to exist.

IRL the Nightmares are of course the Ego, which doesn’t want you to Awaken, because this would mean that the Ego dies. And the Wind Fish is consciousness/God.

Of course you defeat the final boss and you Awaken the Wind Fish.

The Wind Fish Awakens, and recognizes he was dreaming the Island up, and that now the dream has ended, the entire island and its population will disappear, including the girl Marin, the first person who Link met on the island, and who has become Link’s friend.

“Come, Link, let us Awaken together!” says the wind fish. The Island disappears and Link wakes up on his ship, where it all began. He sees a final glimpse of the Wind Fish flying above him. Did Link awaken the Wind Fish or was he Awakening himself the whole time?

Link remembers Marin, and how she said that it was always her dream to fly across the ocean. With this in mind, you see a seagull flying over. Even though the dream is over, the essence of the dream can never be lost.

The End. 
 

 

This still appears to ground the dream the wind fish is having inside some sort of "objective" reality which Link wakes up to.   Unless at the end it showed Link awakening to the fact that he was God being both Link and the Wind fish.  But heck for a game that's pretty awesome

 

[Free Mind]

Please provide a spoiler alert in your post, even if it is a very simplistic game.

Edited May 25, 2020 by Free Mind

[DaHonorableCourt]

2 hours ago, Inliytened1 said:

This still appears to ground the dream the wind fish is having inside some sort of "objective" reality which Link wakes up to.   Unless at the end it showed Link awakening to the fact that he was God being both Link and the Wind fish.  But heck for a game that's pretty awesome

 

True, yet isn’t Awakening yet another dream, just way more Awake than egoic reality? Similar to how egoic reality is more Awake than the dreams we have in our sleep. And doesn’t the nature of infinity imply you would always be able to Awaken more, no matter how profound your Awakening is? 
 

@Free Mind Done.

[James123]

54 minutes ago, DaHonorableCourt said:

True, yet isn’t Awakening yet another dream, just way more Awake than egoic reality? Similar to how egoic reality is more Awake than the dreams we have in our sleep. And doesn’t the nature of infinity imply you would always be able to Awaken more, no matter how profound your Awakening is? 
 

@Free Mind Done.

No. It is infinite.