Thank you so much for your skillful decrypting of this! I was curious, so I looked up VOLUSPA and YUGA. My findings made me crazy, so I had to share! Voluspa is a Norse poem! It depicts the creation of the world and an ensuing a golden age in which a Deity (Traveller!) creates temples and tools and gold. But three giant "maidens" come and bring the golden age to an end. The Deity then creates Dwarves (Guardians) and such ensues an apocalypse in which many of the Norse gods (Warminds?) are killed. The poem predicts that a new world will rise from the ashes and again there will be a time of peace and prosperity. YUGA I find very interesting. It is the name of a cycle in Hindu philosophy. It is said that our universe is created and destroyed once every ~5 billion years! It is said to be one full day and night for Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. Brahma is also the progenitor of all humanity. During the Yuga, humans will start as being super intelligent, angelic beings with a 100, 000 year lifespan and slowly decile... until humans live for 20 years... but what about the intelligence, and the morality? What if the Hive, the Fallen, the Vex, the Cabal... are just other races that were visited by the traveller? Who had a golden age like us, faced a decline, and then went so low they were consumed by darkness to chase the being that once benefitted them? Will this happen to humanity too? What is the purpose of all this?! Is the traveller bad? So has this cycle happened to us before? Will we keep going through a cycle of Golden and Dark age, like day and night? Or is the cycle not one for humanity, but of every race the traveller visits? Did the Traveller create humanity, or even all life? Did Rasputin know this, and if so, how and who else? I'm so confused now! I hope I succeeded in thoroughly confusing other people too ;P I love you Bungie, this is amazing! Even if it makes my head hurt Take care guys! <3 Kitsune