@LRRRonEarth@beige.party @ndnd@beige.party There is also a potential reading of Godzilla as a powerful nature spirit such as you find in Japanese folk religion. Like a giant Totoro turned monstrous and destructive by humanity's actions. This chimes with the experience of the war years, when an ultranationalist military emperor cult had dominated Japan with an ideology that laid claim to traditional Japanese culture and used it to cause immense suffering and ultimate humiliation.