It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Mundus appears to have been worshiped by the residents of Mallet Island, as there are many statues to his angelic likeness situated about the castle, and Dante comes across many clues of strange rituals during the game. However, it is also possible that these were instead constructed by the demons Mundus fills the island with.
The mundus Cereris was a pit in Roman mythology. It contained an entrance to Hades, the underworld, which was ruled by Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld; Mundus is identified as Pluto twice within Devil May Cry. The stone covering the pit, known as the lapis manalis, would be removed three times a year, and when it was removed it was believed that the spirits of the blessed dead would commune with the living.
Mundus' three eyes are likely a reference to Satan, who is portrayed with three faces in Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. Satan is also considered the "prince of this world" and the "prince of darkness". Mundus shares both of these titles.
AfterInfinity
reply to post by therealguyfawkes
Read that thread/experience when it came out, and found it fascinating. I agree wholeheartedly with the gentleman's revelations.
What part about it should I be processing?
The individually calibrated touch to it. Nondualistic. Not just heaven and hell...every single afterlife that has ever been conceived of, rolled into one tangled ball of paradise. I barely understand it myself, but that's how it's been explained to me.
Evanzsayz
reply to post by therealguyfawkes
There is no such thing as white magic or black magic. The only good/evil that exists is inside your heart.