Why M ?

[jimex289]

I read somewhere but I can't remember where sadly. She might also be referring to Mary Magdalene, who Ayu thought was a saint, but she was also just another woman like Ayu herself.

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by jimex289

I read somewhere but I can't remember where sadly. She might also be referring to Mary Magdalene, who Ayu thought was a saint, but she was also just another woman like Ayu herself.

People usually bring this hypothesis up which is extremely unlikely. Japanese people came into contact with the christian religion most likely the first time with the portuguese (or spanish) ship travels when they were searching for spices by traveling through the continents. Thus they were exposed to catholicism (there are even some stories about shiro amakusa and whatever that tried to preach catholicism into japanese ppl and was hunted down) a few centuries ago. Ever since then, the japanese people were exposed to christianism through catholicism, and then they got to assimilate "Maria" (Mary in Portuguese) which is how most catholics all over the world call Virgin Mary. Because of that, in Japan, the name "Maria" is almost always a reference to Virgin Mary (never to Mary Magdalene as some ppl usually try to imply). Now, even those who are very religious often know who Virgin Mary is but I know a lot of people who are christian and barely know much about Mary Magdalene (and when they mention Mary Magdalene, they never call her just Mary, but they always say her full name). Now, let's just think about Japan, in which the majority aren't even Christian, if someone actually gets to know of someone named "Maria" from the bible, will they thik of Virgin Mary, the well known saint for the catholics (also well known in otgher christian religious, despite not being considered a saint), or Mary Magdalene, who happens to be one among hundreds of many other people described in the bible? Virgin Mary, imo. Also praying for saints is something catholics do. Ayu is praying for a saint in the song "M" (as can be seem in the PV since she kneels and join her hands together and close her eyes and says "Maria" or something like that, and the lyrics are quite clear). The saint most catholics pray to is "Maria", which is Virgin Mary. I've never seem a catholic praying for Mary Magdalene, ever.