Leo's Past Lives (Patreon)

These are Leo past reincarnations! He's a basically a living artifact! So much has happened to him and this will be taking a toll on him mentally during his last life. I mean can you even imagine living that long, outliving everyone and having to start over again and again?! All those long years and he's STILL hasn't succeeded in killing Apep, his one purpose on Earth. That's some heavy stuff that'll probably will be weighting on his mind underneath his confident facade. But he's gotta suck it up cus he's got a job to do and it starts by uncovering his past lives. 

Again a repeat of from the last post. The Apep vs. Ra myth epitomizes Order vs. chaos. The gods, the forces of order, enlist the aid of humanity to defend light against darkness and life against death; in essence, to maintain duality and individuality against unity and collectivity. 

Giving things names, identity, personality is what give things natural order. That’s why history is important because we find things that are lost in the chaos of time, oblivion, and darkness and give it a name, an order, a new life, a new story/extra chapter. We dig up the past to learn more about humanity’s individuality and how that impacts and brings color to our modern souls.

This quote I think really rings true to Leo's Philsophy. 

The past is extremely valuable because without it we cease being human. direct self-observation is not nearly sufficient for us to know ourselves: we need history, for the past flows on within us in a hundred waves. Just as the past continues to live on in modern cultures embodied in myths, traditions and institutions. So to our psyche has been shaped and sculpted by past ages, the tendency of the modern individual to feel he has been arbitrarily thrown and abandoned into an absurd world is the direct result of lacking “historical sense”. Of having no conscious connection to the past and therefore failing to dig one’s routes through the strata of history.  -Friedrich Nietzsche