Important information! About her name- a Parsee is a follower of Parsi, a sect of Zoroasterianism in India (either that or the words are interchangable, i'm not entirely sure). In Parsiism, the bridge to the netherworld (or afterlife, or underworld, i'm not sure of this either) is called Cinvat bridge, or the Bridge of the Requiter. Parsiism may also explain her dress, describing it as "very weird" isn't really satisfying. As for the bridge, this is where it gets kind of fuzzy. The symbolism dictionay I used (Dictionary of Symbolism, Hans Biedermann,ISBN 0-452-01118-3) directly says this bridge is from Parsiism, not mentioning Zoroasterianism, but other sources either say it's from both or use the terms interchangeably.
As for the bridge itself, my dictionary describes it as
"no wider than a HAIR. The unjust plunge from it into HELL."
Some other sources say the bridge gets narrower and eventually impossible to stay on if you have been unjust, where you will then plummet to hell. The fall is either described as falling into hell, falling into the mud of the abyss, or just an abyss that is also hell. If you have been righteous in life, you will cross the bridge easily and at the other end, you will either be tested further or pass to the afterlife(i'm not sure about this one either).
But either way, isn't this Komachi and Sikieiki's job? I guess it depends on your faith, so it is their job only if you follow Shinto (at least the Hakurei and maybe Moriya shrine's version of it). I haven't really played SA (I vowed to unlock extra on MoF or at least beat Kanako before playing SA, but I guess this is kind of hopeless), so I don't know much of the story, and my knowledge of Zoroaster(ian)ism is pretty weak, so I need some help here. Definitely, this profile changing at some point. Somebody, please pick up where I left off...
71.246.250.130 22:07, 22 October 2008 (UTC)A Nameless Fairy who can't believe no one's identified Letty's gold pendant thing after how long PCB has been out and doesn't think it's Argentum