https://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta31.htm
In its symbolism chess is the most significant of all games. It has been called "the royal game"--the pastime of kings. Like the Tarot cards, the chessmen represent the elements of life and philosophy. The game was played in India and China long before its introduction into Europe. East Indian princes were wont to sit on the balconies of their palaces and play chess with living men standing upon a checkerboard pavement of black and white marble in the courtyard below. It is popularly believed that the Egyptian Pharaohs played chess, but an examination of their sculpture and illuminations has led to the conclusion that the Egyptian game was a form of draughts. In China, chessmen are often carved to represent warring dynasties, as the Manchu and the Ming.
The chessboard consists of 64 squares alternately black and white and symbolizes the floor of the House of the Mysteries. Upon this field of existence or thought move a number of strangely carved figures, each according to fixed law. The white king is Ormuzd; the black king, Ahriman; and upon the plains of Cosmos the great war between Light and Darkness is fought through all the ages. Of the philosophical constitution of man, the kings represent the spirit; the queens the mind; the bishops the emotions; the knights the vitality; the castles, or rooks, the physical body. The pieces upon the kings' side are positive; those upon the queens' side, negative. The pawns are the sensory impulses and perceptive faculties--the eight parts of the soul. The white king and his suite symbolize the Self and its vehicles; the black king and his retinue, the not-self--the false Ego and its legion. The game of chess thus sets forth the eternal struggle of each part of man's compound nature against the shadow of itself. The nature of each of the chessmen is revealed by the way in which it moves; geometry is the key to their interpretation. For example: The castle (the body) moves on the square; the bishop (the emotions) moves on the slant; the king, being the spirit, cannot be captured, but loses the battle when so surrounded that it cannot escape.
Very.
The interweaving of the characters in Greek mythology (and Egyptian) shows quite a lot of cleverness.
I would not doubt that this is the case in the Hindi pantheon as well (Trimurti, etc.), but there's so much I don't know about all of that stuff that I am more than a little bewildered. The Norse mythology is quite interesting as well, especially when compared with the Greek.
The Hindi pantheon makes more sense if you look up Vedism first. Vedics went to India, adopted traits of the local culture to blend in, and then overtook the culture and what we now have is a Brahminist religion whose core tenants are actually from Vedic Ashkenazi Elemental worshipers who are cousins to the Khazars, with which they've waged an ongoing Civil war using Agnlo-Saxons as fodder for years.
Hitler was a Vedic Ashkenazi who sought to kill off his Khazarian cousins. My research indicates he was duped into killing the Khazars, however, in a grand scheme to promote Zionism and take Israel to fulfil the End-Times Prophecy.
Lucifer's best bet is to proceed the End-Times Prophecy to the point where he is in the greatest power he can and then clamp down and spring the Cycle-ending plan to lock his 1000 Years of Darkness in for all eternity.
Vedism is Elemental worship, so Lucifer being Prince of Air makes him a predominant figure in their pantheon.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Vedic-religion
I have started to think in the past five years or so that a lot of these warring factions in the world are all trying to trip off ancient prophecies but in a way they can control. It does seem that the NatSocs were very interested in Atlantis and Ancient Aryan bloodlines, Vril, etc. The Mullahs in Iran pretty much openly admit that they are trying to hasten the arrival of The Hidden One/Mahdi, I've seen that some Orthodox Jews have the same idea, the Zogferatu seem to have a similar idea, etc.
They play with powers they don't truly understand. There is a level of Gnosis that the Catholics call the Beatific Vision, whereby you see the moving cogs of reality and an overwhelming peace steadies your hand in all things you do. It's the point where Neo realizes he is the One.
They think they can train someone to become The One through behavioral conditioning -- like training a neural network or like training Raiden in MGS2 to be the Legendary Super Soldier.
It's a foolish endeavor. Gnosis comes from within. It cannot be forced upon a human mind.
On another note, as to why I call Lucifer the Prince of Air.
https://www.gty.org/library/bibleqnas-library/QA0086/the-prince-of-the-power-of-the-air
Remember what I said about Satan being a Corporation. Lucifer is the Director, which makes him prime host of the Corporate Board meeting table. He calls the meetings and fills their heads with lies. He is most responsible. His hands are clean, as he gets all the other demons to do the grunt work, but his mouth is the most filthy in all Creation. His lies know no bounds of restraint, as to be called it's author.
His words penetrate the Air with a foul breath, lending to his tile as Prince of the Air.
https://cdn.w600.comps.canstockphoto.com/on-air-sign-drawings_csp34725131.jpg
In other words... He's the one in charge of the Main-Stream Media.
Btw, I agree that they play with powers they do not understand. And they might set off a global conflagration just trying to trip their prophecies into action.
Also the idea that a couple of dumbasses could set off a nuke and that that would initiate/accelerate a divine process .... is retarded.
Folks who take Ayahuasca claim in some cases to see a world of moving parts ... a Divine Watch of sorts. Fractal, symmetrical, moving, and inter-dimensional and intergalactic. Amongst this machine they claim to see beings, which appear to be "caretaking" the machinery, and they are therefore dubbed "Machine Elves".
I imagine the Wachovski brothers took influence from that in designing what their "Matrix" looked like, once the curtain was drawn back.
EDIT: I should add that folks who know this stuff state that the active drug in Ayahuasca that is causing this is DMT. "The God Molecule". One can ingest DMT in other ways as well, but there are probably other compounds in Ayahuasca that assist too.