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Religion of Hyrule
This story includes an example of Deism, a religion of theories stemming from the Great Awakening, a period of heightened understanding in the New World in the late eighteenth century. Actually it is a polytheistic Deism, to be exact. In this religion, God is thought to have come from the heavens and created earth like the account in the book of Genesis. However, when he had finished, he put man in charge and left man to be ruler of the planet and not himself. Thus, God returned to the heavens to observe the way the planet would turn out, whether good or bad. If the world fell into total destruction, God could rebuild a new one, no questions asked. God thus didn’t play a role in anyone’s life, and that if one prayed to God, the prayer would not be answered because he took no role in the prolonging of mankind. In the story of Zelda, the three goddesses have left earth with the Triforce, and whoever touches it that does not have a balanced heart will lose the other two parts. The person will try to obtain the other two parts through any means necessary, no matter how detrimental to the world. So when Ganondorf loses the Courage and Wisdom Triangles of the Triforce, he sends Hyrule into destruction until he is able to get those two pieces. The goddesses do not help Hyrule because of the theory of Deism, and the planet becomes chaos.
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