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PHILEMON: Everyone's favorite masked weirdo! Philemon, as you probably know, was the spirit guide for Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychologist whose works and ideas form the basis of the Persona games. Jung said that Philemon had been guiding him ever since he was young. At first he thought that Philemon was merely a version of himself, but then he came to think that Philemon was an aspect of his psyche that he himself had not created. Jung drew pictures of various things, mostly dreams, and collected them in his Red Book. (If you don't know, in the Persona Tsumi to Batsu manga, there is a Red Book and a Black Book filled with personae, and Kaneko Kazuma's artbooks of demon art (thus far) have been the Red Book and the Black Book. His third artbook in that series will be the Yellow Book.) Jung's version of Philemon was a stern-looking elderly man with wings and a halo, who carried a set of keys. But, you know, fangirls wouldn't go for that, so Persona's Philemon is rather more attractive. In Persona 1, he was a kindly-looking middle-aged man with black hair, and in both Persona 2 games, Philemon is essentially a long-haired Tatsuya in a black leotard. *laugh*

Philemon's trademarks are the golden butterfly and the mask. The butterfly itself is easy enough to explain; the butterfly is the symbol of the immortal soul in many cultures. In classical Greek, the word for the soul - psychi - was also the word for butterfly. (They're different words in modern Greek.) This word has come down into English as the word psyche. Since Philemon is a guide of the soul, blah blah, he takes the form of a butterfly.

The mask motif is amusing, really. All over the persona games you see masks. Philemon, the Masquerade members and Executives, the Joker - all of them wear masks. One might initially assume that it's just to hide their identities, but it's actually Significant and Symbolic, of course. You know what the word "persona" means in Latin? MASK. It was the mask worn by actors to indicate what role they were playing at the time. Nobody uses it in that sense anymore; a persona in modern English is used in the psychological sense. A persona is an aspect of your personality (look at the word!), or a role you're playing at the time. Musicians have "stage persona," etc etc. It's the way you act in different situations; you aren't the same person around your friends, parents, and employer, are you? As children, Tatsuya and his friends played with masks, because with the mask on, they were "allowed to be someone else." That's the essence of a psychological persona.

Now, a crapload of the concepts in the Persona games comes straight out of Jung's writings - the animus, anima, collective unconsciousness, Shadow, persona, blah blah. I'm not going to explain them here; that's been done on other Persona pages. If you want to read more about his theories, this isn't a bad page.

Philemon in the Persona games is the master of the Collective Unconsciousness and the Velvet Room. He's supposedly on the side of good, but "good" in a general cosmic sense. Philemon is actually playing a little game with Nyarlathotep, conducting research on the human race to see whether they're capable of greater evolution towards perfection. If humanity is strong-willed, Philemon wins, and if humans are weak and evil, Nyarlathotep wins. It doesn't really matter to Philemon what happens to individual humans; he just picked the Persona-users as guinea pigs in his cosmic experiment. Which is why you get to bitchslap Philemon at the end of Tsumi. I'd do it; it doesn't do you any harm, and boy, does it feel good!

а то у меня переводчик поганый не работает Т_Т

По христьянским сказаниям падший ангел - это тот кто перешет на сторону Тьмы и является уже частью демоном и ангелом. Так вот я скажу одно это полный бред, почему: да потому, что что сущность неможет перемещатся с одного плана в другой, так как говорят демоны обитают на одном плане, а ангелы на другом они не взаимо связаны и немогул стать частью другого. Так же как и война между ними невозможна. И вообще кто сказал что ангелы добрые? Они такие же существа как и демоны и неподвластны Тьме или Свету, Злу или Добру... они существа, которые сами по себе немогут принимать даже физического облика и находится на физ. плане. И поэтому даже при их вызове их физическим зрением невозможно увидеть и полность понять что эти существа были призваны...