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I found a bunch more references to the symbols on Basket Lady's dress in the Art Book in some really interesting places that I am surprised haven't been discussed yet. I went through our thread and only found one reference we had talked about with the white pots @Serif and @Skittzo referencing one of her symbols. Just going back through our posts in this thread, there is so much great information and ideas that have gone mostly unexplored simply because of the sheer volume and how quickly we were posting especially in the beginning. I will try and @ the correct person when referencing or expanding on ideas based on what I have found, but definitely chime in if you had already posted something similar, For me it's just about trying to find some assimilation of fitting pieces together so it makes sense in a coherent way instead of this vague, convoluted abstract mess that has been presented to us.
I started just specifically looking for this symbol on Basket Lady's dress, and I started noticing it in places I didn't expect.
The first place I found these symbols was on what presumably is a revamped glimpse at the Great Plateau. I rotated the image because it's a little easier to see but the pattern is the same in all four directions.
A lot of times I had to flip the image 180 degrees because it is presented upside down sometimes in certain depictions and right side up in others, which makes it look like a completely different image. I will refrain on speculating on why this would be located here on the Great Plateau and leave that up to you to decide.
The next spot this image showed up was on the back of the stone Bird, as well as in the additional image at the top which is harder to make out because it is flipped 180 degrees. I was never sold on the idea that the stone bird would be used as a fast travel method but I am slowly coming around to the idea based on who I think the Stone Bird belonged to now. I just assumed it belonged to Rauru but it might belong to Basket Lady, perhaps Rauru could fly naturally and Basket Lady couldn't so it was a way for them to be together in the sky.
The lighted stone bird symbol is elongated presumably to fit within the required space but it still matches up one for one, while the other image is harder to make out as it looks more worn and weathered but it still matches one for one to the dress. We also saw just another hint, which again could mean lots of things, from the title reveal trailer with the stone bird just happening to be traveling in the direction of Basket Lady's Geoglyph.
I would have to go into too deep of speculation on why the tail is not lit up in this shot, but off the top of my head, I would say it's because Link hasn't visited the Geoglyph yet and once he visits it and perhaps others, the symbol will light up on the back of the tail as the destination point as you fast travel probably by an animation sequence of some sort?
The next image is a split image of presumably the end of a shrine entrance depicted by the top image, under the sea, and what I believe is the warp destination point depicted by the bottom image, inside the sky temple of Basket Lady. Both have the Basket Lady's symbol in the middle above the door or entrance way. So @Skittzo mentioned a few weeks back how all the water imagery are connected and theorized these related to one another as our shrine substitute with the entrance way being through a tori gate in the sky.
So Link would enter the underwater shrine via tori gate from the sky.
Do the trial, and at the end of the trial exist via the top split image, and arrive in a new warp location via the bottom split image. It could be a way of accessing Basket Lady's temple in the sky. These Temples look like they are broken up into several layers or floors so maybe after completing a new trial you have access to the next floor. Kind of like gaining more Spiritual knowledge on your path to enlightenment, with each successive trial you complete you are one step closer to being worthy or having enough spiritual understanding to meet that particular Deity.
Which actually makes sense to me now via my previous post, as I have always thought being brought up in Western culture, that you would look to a Devine entity in the heavens or upward. But if this was based on Buddhism with my previous Lotus Flower example, perhaps the a Devine trail would start beneath the water as symbolized by the Lotus where it first takes it roots and you would begin your Spiritual journey there.
One last thought I had unrelated to the symbols while I was looking at the underwater pictures, was from this picture in the trailer
I am thinking as we enter the underwater area, it will be flooded or we could be underwater, but then the water will rise forming a barrier. And the reason why I think this is the swirls on the ceiling which indicate we are underwater. The swirls couldn't be forming from outside, it would have to be remaining water droplets left after the water has rose up and still reversing or rising up that hit the ceiling from the inside and form the water rings. Or it could just be left over pools of water, and we will see them occasionally rise up and hit the ceiling.
I started just specifically looking for this symbol on Basket Lady's dress, and I started noticing it in places I didn't expect.
The first place I found these symbols was on what presumably is a revamped glimpse at the Great Plateau. I rotated the image because it's a little easier to see but the pattern is the same in all four directions.
A lot of times I had to flip the image 180 degrees because it is presented upside down sometimes in certain depictions and right side up in others, which makes it look like a completely different image. I will refrain on speculating on why this would be located here on the Great Plateau and leave that up to you to decide.
The next spot this image showed up was on the back of the stone Bird, as well as in the additional image at the top which is harder to make out because it is flipped 180 degrees. I was never sold on the idea that the stone bird would be used as a fast travel method but I am slowly coming around to the idea based on who I think the Stone Bird belonged to now. I just assumed it belonged to Rauru but it might belong to Basket Lady, perhaps Rauru could fly naturally and Basket Lady couldn't so it was a way for them to be together in the sky.
The lighted stone bird symbol is elongated presumably to fit within the required space but it still matches up one for one, while the other image is harder to make out as it looks more worn and weathered but it still matches one for one to the dress. We also saw just another hint, which again could mean lots of things, from the title reveal trailer with the stone bird just happening to be traveling in the direction of Basket Lady's Geoglyph.
I would have to go into too deep of speculation on why the tail is not lit up in this shot, but off the top of my head, I would say it's because Link hasn't visited the Geoglyph yet and once he visits it and perhaps others, the symbol will light up on the back of the tail as the destination point as you fast travel probably by an animation sequence of some sort?
The next image is a split image of presumably the end of a shrine entrance depicted by the top image, under the sea, and what I believe is the warp destination point depicted by the bottom image, inside the sky temple of Basket Lady. Both have the Basket Lady's symbol in the middle above the door or entrance way. So @Skittzo mentioned a few weeks back how all the water imagery are connected and theorized these related to one another as our shrine substitute with the entrance way being through a tori gate in the sky.
So Link would enter the underwater shrine via tori gate from the sky.
Do the trial, and at the end of the trial exist via the top split image, and arrive in a new warp location via the bottom split image. It could be a way of accessing Basket Lady's temple in the sky. These Temples look like they are broken up into several layers or floors so maybe after completing a new trial you have access to the next floor. Kind of like gaining more Spiritual knowledge on your path to enlightenment, with each successive trial you complete you are one step closer to being worthy or having enough spiritual understanding to meet that particular Deity.
Which actually makes sense to me now via my previous post, as I have always thought being brought up in Western culture, that you would look to a Devine entity in the heavens or upward. But if this was based on Buddhism with my previous Lotus Flower example, perhaps the a Devine trail would start beneath the water as symbolized by the Lotus where it first takes it roots and you would begin your Spiritual journey there.
One last thought I had unrelated to the symbols while I was looking at the underwater pictures, was from this picture in the trailer
I am thinking as we enter the underwater area, it will be flooded or we could be underwater, but then the water will rise forming a barrier. And the reason why I think this is the swirls on the ceiling which indicate we are underwater. The swirls couldn't be forming from outside, it would have to be remaining water droplets left after the water has rose up and still reversing or rising up that hit the ceiling from the inside and form the water rings. Or it could just be left over pools of water, and we will see them occasionally rise up and hit the ceiling.
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