What is a Golden Bough?

[Hazen]

Is there much lore regarding what it is?

According to wikipedia it is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough.

Also this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough_(mythology)

According to Encylopaedia Brittanica it is this: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Golden-Bough

Edit: This is a good page regarding this https://everything.explained.today/The_Golden_Bough/

Does the Golden Bough of Limbus have any reference or meaning to the one in the classics literary sense?

Or is it just a story doodad as some reason why the odyssey exists?

Does the Odyssey have a purpose?

Any lore information, would be helpful.

Thank you,

[eggseed]

Probably some remant of the white nights incident

[Iggy the Unwise]

There is a chance that the golden bough has a connection to speed of light project or more likely to enkephalin and abnormality making technology of the L corp. Other than that, your best bet is to ask the nice lady that is whispering in your head or Ain (he is dead tho). Also, Odyssey had a purpose.

[Minh]

"They are branches, as their name suggests. That's what we call stems growing from the trunk of a tree. These ones happen to have a golden glow."

Yes. Not now. Yes. You say a few. Yes. Yes. It's said so.

[Hazen]

Originally posted by Minh:

"They are branches, as their name suggests. That's what we call stems growing from the trunk of a tree. These ones happen to have a golden glow."

Yes. Not now. Yes. You say a few. Yes. Yes. It's said so.

Suggest you use quotes about the relevant bits. This kind of answer is hard to interpret vs the OP.

[Damoncles]

Real life reference to Korea. When Fantasy books first became popular in there, the premier publisher was named "Golden Bough Publishing".
Or something like that? I think that's roughly the correct story but take with a grain of salt.

As for how they actually work in universe, we don't know everything. We only know that L Corp used it as part of their energy production, and they still possess a lot of energy even now.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Suggest you use quotes about the relevant bits. This kind of answer is hard to interpret vs the OP.

Forget it, he's been told that before and ignored it.

[Minh]

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Is there much lore regarding what it is?

"They are branches, as their name suggests. That's what we call stems growing from the trunk of a tree. These ones happen to have a golden glow."

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Is there much lore regarding what it is?

No for now.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Does the Golden Bough of Limbus have any reference or meaning to the one in the classics literary sense?

Yes. You say a few examples already.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Or is it just a story doodad as some reason why the odyssey exists?

Yes. It can be.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Does the Odyssey have a purpose?

Yes. She said so.

[Minh]

Originally posted by Yukks:

Real life reference to Korea. When Fantasy books first became popular in there, the premier publisher was named "Golden Bough Publishing".
Or something like that? I think that's roughly the correct story but take with a grain of salt.

As for how they actually work in universe, we don't know everything. We only know that L Corp used it as part of their energy production, and they still possess a lot of energy even now.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Suggest you use quotes about the relevant bits. This kind of answer is hard to interpret vs the OP.

Forget it, he's been told that before and ignored it.

No. This is 1st time I've been told this. You've been told that before & ignored it.

[Minh]

Originally posted by Yukks:

Real life reference to Korea. When Fantasy books first became popular in there, the premier publisher was named "Golden Bough Publishing".
Or something like that? I think that's roughly the correct story but take with a grain of salt.

As for how they actually work in universe, we don't know everything. We only know that L Corp used it as part of their energy production, and they still possess a lot of energy even now.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Suggest you use quotes about the relevant bits. This kind of answer is hard to interpret vs the OP.

Forget it, he's been told that before and ignored it.

I don't ignore it. You've been told that before & ignored it.

[Hazen]

Originally posted by Yukks:

Real life reference to Korea. When Fantasy books first became popular in there, the premier publisher was named "Golden Bough Publishing".
Or something like that? I think that's roughly the correct story but take with a grain of salt.

As for how they actually work in universe, we don't know everything. We only know that L Corp used it as part of their energy production, and they still possess a lot of energy even now.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Suggest you use quotes about the relevant bits. This kind of answer is hard to interpret vs the OP.

Forget it, he's been told that before and ignored it.

Really, there's a Golden Bough publishing? That's interesting though, I can't find anything about it.

[Birp]

Originally posted by Yukks:

Real life reference to Korea. When Fantasy books first became popular in there, the premier publisher was named "Golden Bough Publishing".
Or something like that? I think that's roughly the correct story but take with a grain of salt.

As for how they actually work in universe, we don't know everything. We only know that L Corp used it as part of their energy production, and they still possess a lot of energy even now.

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Suggest you use quotes about the relevant bits. This kind of answer is hard to interpret vs the OP.

Forget it, he's been told that before and ignored it.

No, the Golden Bough is a reference to Aeneas using the bough to traverse the underworld and also the roman mythology story where a priest plucks a bough from a sacred tree & then kills the previous priest in charge of guarding the tree, thereby taking his place.

edit: The golden bough protects from 'darkness and death' and if you think about it, Canto V, Ahab was speculating about Dante's head seeming extremely similar to the golden bough & the reason for why the sinners were able to resist pallidification, whereas her crew couldn't.

[Damoncles]

Originally posted by Hellcat:

Really, there's a Golden Bough publishing? That's interesting though, I can't find anything about it.

There's one link
https://www.kbook-eng.or.kr/sub/topic.php?ptype=view&idx=908&page=$page&code=topic

Also notable, the idea of a Sentient Weapon is a part of one of the first Korean high fantasy books of the time, which is perhaps a inspiration for Kali's Mimicry whispering to her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Raja
A book also published by Golden Bough Publishing!
(Note: There is no EN Article for Golden Bough, and the Publisher link on the page relinks to that other book in the OP, which is rather confusing, wikipedia should organize their stuff better).

Originally posted by Birp:

No, the Golden Bough is a reference to the Aeneas using the bough to traverse the underworld and also the roman mythology story where a priest plucks a bough from a sacred tree & then kills the previous priest in charge of guarding the tree, thereby taking his place.

edit: The golden bough protects from 'darkness and death' and if you think about it, Canto V, Ahab was speculating about Dante's head seeming extremely similar to the golden bough & the reason for why the sinners were able to resist pallidification, whereas her crew couldn't.

Seems you're wrong.
Also, Dante's head has a golden bough inside.

[Iggy the Unwise]

Originally posted by Yukks:

Also notable, the idea of a Sentient Weapon is a part of one of the first Korean high fantasy books of the time, which is perhaps a inspiration for Kali's Mimicry whispering to her.

It feels like the sentient weapon as trope is a bit older than the first Korean high fantasy book, I could bet that there is some examples in Asian mythology.

[Damoncles]

Originally posted by Iggy the Unwise:

Originally posted by Yukks:

Also notable, the idea of a Sentient Weapon is a part of one of the first Korean high fantasy books of the time, which is perhaps a inspiration for Kali's Mimicry whispering to her.

It feels like the sentient weapon as trope is a bit older than the first Korean high fantasy book, I could bet that there is some examples in Asian mythology.

Occam's Razor.

[Iggy the Unwise]

Also while the publishing house is plauseble the is also this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough
"The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer."
It feels more fitting with the Limbus theme.

[Damoncles]

Originally posted by Iggy the Unwise:

Also while the publishing house is plauseble the is also this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Bough
"The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer."
It feels more fitting with the Limbus theme.

I am looking into the book summary on wikipedia and I'm not seeing it.
"His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king", "Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought." - What do I do with this? Like, how do I relate it to Limbus?

My take on it?
Aeneas - 50% likelyhood
Korean Publishing - 50% likelyhood
Frazer's Book - 0% likelyhood
Iggy once again loses sight of the greater plot! You hate to see it...