- ROBERTO jh
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Posted by: paulmarv
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: paulmarv
The Halo Trilogy was designed with many well-crafted and hidden symbols that serve to reinforce the message of the story. You should certainly keep an open eye spotting these symbols and making connections with the story; it's very fun. But there is the line where you start to read into things too much... and this is just that. Or, likely, you are just misinterpreting symbolism that exists for a certain and useful purpose. Could you cite the example of one symbol so I could give you my interpretation on it? I would consider symbolism in the Halo story and its corresponding manifestations my specialty.
The symbol for ONI is the All Seeing Eye.
The Eye of Providence in ONI's logo; a classic example. Eyes are associated in Western mythology and symbolic tradition with perception and omniscience. Now then... what does the Office of Naval Intelligence do? They collect information, they keep an "eye" on the rest of the military, and they're all about dirty, top-secret, and clandestine knowledge. That's what their logo and its symbolism serve to support. The symbol reinforces the image of ONI, and that is all. Its mere presence in the Halo story does not make the story related to something else that makes use of the symbol.
didn't know there was a difference, but yeah, I'm just saying ONI (especially the Assembly) is a lot like the conspiracy Illuminatii: controlling everything behind the scenes