The gist of the idea is based on the thought of CDC being the same as 343, if you use a simple alphabet letter-to-number substitution cipher.
343 Industries is the company that makes Halo. They are based in Redmond, Washington, and got the Halo franchise from Bungie. Of course, Halo is the hallmark franchise for the Xbox, which is made by Microsoft. Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft, and greatly to contributes to the WHO and has raised money for the CDC as well.
But I think it's a bit deeper than that. 343 Industries got its name from 343 Guilty Spark, and from that page...
"Guilty Spark is an artificial intelligence whose primary role, as designated by his Forerunner makers, is to maintain his ringworld Installation 04, also known as 'Halo' as its caretaker, and to contain any infestation of the parasitic Flood species via the activation of the Halo arrays, which destroys all life in the galaxy in the process."
The Guilty Spark is rather similar to an all-seeing eye, and is rather indifferent to destruction of life. Though it helps Master Chief at times, it doesn't hesitate in trying to kill him if their objectives don't match.
The Halo arrays themselves weren't made to destroy the Flood, but to destroy the biomass that they thrive on. So while a galaxy may be destroyed, it could still be later repopulated. Now, the Flood themselves are interesting. They are a parasitic species, and infect the host, living or dead, by driving spines into the them to access their nervous system. Life forms that are changed into Flood can also similarly infect others. In the Wikipedia article, it describes the Flood as being portrayed as a "fungal zombie", but they were "based on the behavior of viruses and some bacteria".
There's oodles more to this I'm sure, like I'm leaving out the aliens (Covenant), but I just wanted to leave with a final thought. The guy who voiced Guilty Spark called him a "bastard", and think about his role as described via the Wikipedia article...
"Guilty Spark's role in the Halo series is cited as an example of a trend in video games where technology, not angels, is cast as an agent of revelation. In his book Halo and Philosophy: Intellect Evolved, Luke Cuddy suggested that Halo's handling of artificial intelligence shows that modern society more commonly associates the idea of revelation with technology then with divine forces, and that belief in God is unnecessary in order to long for understanding of the human situation since humanity's belief in the divine is in some ways being implanted by "faith" in technology. He compared Spark's role in disclosing the truth of the Halo installations to several major characters to that an angel: an otherworldly guide and mediator who escorts visionaries through potentially treacherous otherworldly terrain, interprets what they see so that it could be passed down as privileged information, and provides reassurance of a higher purpose on the face of the apocalypse. Spark's dialogue represents the "demythifying" power of naturalistic explanation, because he debunks the religious beliefs and superstitions of the Covenant faction - that the Forerunners are divine beings, that he is an "oracle" who provides divine revelation, and that the Halo installations are instruments of eternal salvation - with factual information."
On a separate note, I searched Halo and COVID when I made this post on Reddit, and got this post from the Coronavirus subreddit. Team Halo, helping end the pandemic. And also, there is haloverify.com, which offers the "world's most effective virus screening solution." "Get tested. Get verified. And get back to business."
"HALO™ is a British biotech that has developed a cheaper, more sensitive and faster saliva-based virus testing system designed to get business back to work as the world recovers from the COVID-19 crisis."
Any thoughts on the matter?
Never played it, and just read up on it. Pretty simple..."she" is Lilith, and that seems to have a bit of confirmation...the name of the working AI on the Marathon ship is Leela. Lullaby is also supposedly derived from the word Lilith.
So, like the quote that you just gave, his nameless "adversary" and forever greatest love, is still with him in this iteration of his being.
Cool take, and you sent me on a search that agreed with your insight, lilli abi=“Lilith away”=the soothing songs sung by mothers to infants.
Who then is the narrator? Adam? Jesus? The Cyborg? John “Master Chief” Everyman?
Possibly Samael. That's why the place was like the Garden of Eden...so I would say it's probably a take on the Samael/Lilith origin story. There's also the idea that of course there was "two" Genesis stories with Adam...one with Lilith, and then Eve. Then Lilith was left to deal with Samael. Twin flames is a common occult/new age concept, so there's that too.
Also, it would be like Samael to envision himself as being mighty heroes throughout the ages, would it not? He's obviously not just Master Chief who whomever.
Lilith is interesting, because I Pet Goat II has the Alice in Wonderland character named Lily, who Bush and Obama are seemingly trying to entertain, and it implies a much deeper meaning behind Lilith and her current place in the hierarchy of things. I think Madame Q in that video is also Lilith, but in "old age" (has a wand, is a prostitute, etc.).
I'm not sure Lilith was a demon, but may have just consorted with demons. But there is a question of her not eating from the tree in the original garden, which may actually make her unaware of the boundaries of morality. I dunno. It's an interesting topic.
Leela in Futurama may be a reference to Lilith and her connection to the all-seeing eye, which would explain the reverence by Obama and Bush in the I Pet Goat video.
In Hebrew I think you can just do simple vowel substitution, so Lilu is effectively Leela.
You wanna hear the kinda synchronicities I get? I'm listening to an album I really like, basically psychedelic Peruvian music, and the singers in the background are singing "Leelolee lelolie". You can't make this stuff up...I didn't even notice at first and was halfway through the song. I'll even link it...good album anyhow. :)
Lilith is also 420 in Babylonian gemetria. Pretty weird how much focus is put into a "random" number.
Once again, very interesting take, it allows one to see this as not an unbiased retelling but a warping to a solitary perspective.
These passages:
Rings of a scorned samael describing his scorner, so it makes sense to cast that role as a female, however in this reading it would not be Lilith but Sophia Pistis
Good point, and I am rather unaware of the Samael/Sophia connection, though I could see it from what you are getting at. Something for me to look into.
I'm not really that familiar with the occult, but honestly, one of the weirder experiences I've had was quite brief...I went to sleep worrying one time about someone; I had had a very strange premonition that they were sick.
When I woke up, I had a strange buzzing in my ear, and it was loud and almost ringing. As it dissipated, it really resembled radio static, and at the tail end, I heard a voice saying "Shakti, she is not yours". Now, to be fair, it was a girl that I used to have a crush on. But the voice was shockingly imperative. And, to boot, I'd never heard the term Shakti before, but I instantly knew how to spell it after hearing it, and looked it up.
Now, I don't know if the voice was calling me Shakti, or it was an announcing of who was making the voice. On a side note, I had an Indian chemistry teacher with the name Narayan (which is a rather interesting Prodigy song). I also met the Dalai Lama once. But for growing up Catholic, I've had a lot of experiences outside that realm.
You a chemist perchance?