This is just an idea that I came up with when I was re-reading the Halo3 articles and looking at the E3 pictures. Since the covenant are religious and all i thought that i should relate the bible to the Halo3 announcement trailer and the other Halo games.

Halo = Bible

1)the Ark-Ark of the Covenant
2)the hole where the artifact is-deep abyss where Satan was imprisoned for 1,000 years. (this leads me to believe that the artifact is not the Ark nor is the Ark inside the artifact. This could also mean that there may be something worse buried in the hole containing the artifact, perhaps a super-flood form?)
3)The number 7(Man this number is everywhere! When I go to Church, hang out with my friends, and even at school!)-According to the Bible the number 7 means complete. If you look in the last book of the Bible in Revelations you will notice that there are several things that have the number seven

ie(Bible):seven angles with seven trumpets, the beast with seven horns, the seven plagues, etc. etc. etc.

Also in the Halo books and games there are some things that deal with the number seven also

ie(Halo):There are seven Halos, A.I.s go 'rampant' in seven years.....

As you can see Bungie may have based most of Halo on the Bible and now that I think about it in Revelations you have John talking about what he sees at the end of the world. In the E3 announcement trailer we see all of Cortana's expressions and thoughts about what is happening to the Master Chief and to what is happening on Earth. This fits in perfectly into what I said before about Bungie incorperating the Bible into Halo. Cortana could be John witnessing the end of the world. And the Master Chief could be an angel or possibly (though a little crazy) God!

Well thats all I have to say on this topic unless of course somebody has some ideas and would like to share them with me and the rest of the Rampancy Community. So feel free to post!

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