I don't really think the crosses meant Christianity or anything. I'm pretty sure they were just used as decorative devices.

Furthermore, what does paganism have to do with Legend of Zelda?

He realized that god doesn't exist.

What this all brings into question is - What on earth posessed Miyamoto to put a word like [Nabooru] in the game (going all the way back to Zelda II The adventure of Link). I don't think it's coincidence in light of all the other things I've pointed out. Does Miyamoto believe in aliens?

Link...a pagan? ROFL!
I think all he's interested in is rescuing Zelda and Hyrule. Does that make him: A) Brave? Yes. B) Horny as a goat for Zelda's bones? Probably. C) A pagan? Most certainly not.

By the way, I thought about another theory The NES titles are the last ones in the chronology, playing long time after "A Link to the Past". Maybe Christianity wasn't known until that time and the Christians came to Hyrule between "ALotP" and "Zelda I" to spread the word.

definitive proof

Firstly "Bible" (Greek: "biblia") means "books", not "book". "Book" would be "biblios".
Secondly: Even if in Ancient Greek the word "bible" simply means "books", that's not the case in modern languages anymore. Historically the words may be interchangeable, but in the English language "bible" and "book"/"books" are not synonyms. You can not say: "Today I bought a bible about animals." In modern languages, the Bible is the holy book of the Christians and Jews and not only a general word for "book". So, the bible in "Zelda" really has to be a bible and not only a generic book.


Please prove that. Unless some moron says something like ""Lord of the Rings" is my bible", there is no correct use of the word "bible" if you just mean any holy book. The Bible is always the Jewish/Christian holy book. The Koran for example can not be called a bible. If anyone does that, it's plain wrong. So, there is actually no word definition like

bible (noun, f); -s, -s
1. The holy book of the Jewish and Christian religion
2. General term for a holy book

because definition 2 is not correct.


Of course the game is not translated very well. But unlike the storyline, the passage we talked about just contains a single word, not whole sentences. So, it's just looking into a dictionary to translate a single word. I don't think that there is much to do wrong.

By the way, look what I found in "Zelda II"


So, let's summarize everything
In "The Legend of Zelda" and "Zelda II - The Adventure of Link"
- Link has a cross on his shield, like soldiers in Christian armies,
- the grave stones have crosses, like the Christian grave stones,
- the magic book is a bible (by the way, in the manual artwork it has a cross on it as well)
- there are buildings with crosses on it, like churches (I found it by chance while playing with a downloaded save state. Does anybody know how to enter the church (the upper door)?)
- there is absolutely no mention of three female goddesses or any other pagan things with religious meaning.

And just because they decided to put up their own religion in the later games, like any adventure today has to have its own stupid religion, you honestly want to tell me that the cross symbols in the NES games have absolutely no meaning (although they are not used randomly, but are placed exactly in places where they also occur in real life: Shield, grave stone, bible, church) and that the word "bible" is a mistranslation and simply means "book" or "holy book"? Sorry, but I think it's not me who makes things up and who sees the facts as he wants to see it. You all are so much influenced by the later "Zelda" games and by the whole franchise which plays in a pagan world, so you don't want to realize that the original idea of Link was that of a Christian hero and not the no-pants-wearing reincarnation of a hero chosen by three goddesses.

<-- Christian | Pagan -->

I really don't see why it matters one way or another. It's a game, which was designed for entertainment and fun.