(August 24, 2021 at 2:19 pm)Secular Elf Wrote: Oh, the OP mentioned anime. I love anime. I have not seen the particular titles mentioned, but I enjoyed Full Metal Alchemist, in which the main villain characters were personifications and named after the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Wrath, Gluttony, etc. And part of the plot line involved a priest of a sun god Leto, in which said priest turned out to be a charlatan manipulating the populace of the town. There is more but that would be spoiling.
Another series, Attack on Titan, in which the story involves the battle between inhabitants of a walled region against giants that eat humans, there are three concentric walls, each one had female names, and there was a religion in which the priesthood regarded the walls as goddesses. In fact I binged watched the last half of the second season of AOT and began the third last night. Not for the faint of heart though, as it is graphic violence.
You've got great taste, SE. I love AOT. It is probably one of the better ones out there. And agree, kinda disturbing, lol.