Shangri-La as a metaphor & The Kunlun Mountains

[Vril Killer]

Got something that goes in a slightly different direction for you guys.

"Shangri-La is often used in a similar context to "Garden of Eden", to represent a paradise hidden from modern man. It is sometimes used as an analogy for a lifelong quest or something elusive that is much sought. For a man who spends his life obsessively looking for a cure to a disease, such a cure could be said to be that man's "Shangri-La". It also might be used to represent perfection that is sought by man in the form of love, happiness, or Utopian ideals. It may be used in this context alongside other mythical and famous examples of somewhat similar metaphors such as The Holy Grail, El Dorado and The Fountain of Youth."

This bit certainly ties in with Richtofen's motives going towards the events that occurred on Moon. Richtofen's Shangri-La may have been him taking control of the zombies.

This part, however, is slightly different and may have been something that was overlooked by us here on CODZ. It wouldn't be the first time that Treyarch has misled us. Maybe Richtofen also had another motive and that was partly what Shangri-La was hinting at; he was looking for the Shangri-La or cure to element 115 and the Zombie disease.

Now for the Kunlun Mountains.

In the novel Lost Horizon in which Shangri-La originated, it was described as being enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.

"The Chinese name Kunlun 崑崙 (or 崐崘) is written with characters combining the "mountain radical" 山 with phonetics of kun 昆 and lun 侖. Alternate names for Kunlun shan include Kunling 崑陵 (with "hill") and Kunqiu 崑丘 (with "mound").

Kunlun 崑崙 was anciently used to transcribe the southern people called Gurong, who were slaves in China. Edward H. Schafer (1985:46) quotes the Book of Tang description. "They are also called Kurung. They are the barbarous men of the islands, great and small, of the Southern Seas. They are very black, and expose their naked Figures. They can tame and cow ferocious beasts, rhinoceroses, elephants, and the like." Schafer (1985:290) notes that besides Kunlun 崑崙, these southerners were occasionally written Gulong 古龍 or Gulun 骨論."

Perhaps this was another reason Richtofen came here? We've all heard the radios in which Richtofen and Maxis are trying to control the zombies and the HAARP theories. Could this possibly be the clue in the mountain range that Treyarch employees are hinting at? Did Richtofen gain his knowledge for controlling the zombies from the ruins on Shangri-La?

Thoughts appreciated.

[way2g00d]

Great theory dude. That picture looks very much like shangri la. [brains]

[Vril Killer]

Great theory dude. That picture looks very much like shangri la. [brains]

Thanks a lot.

It's supposed to be Shangri la, it was one of the pictures that came up while i was finding my information. I tried to find a picture of the mountains too but what I found wasn't great.