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• Do you have a favorite piece of sacred music?
• Is there any piece from a video game or anime which feels like sacred music to you?
I've pointed to Cash's Hurt and Air Traffic Controller's Blame, and I'll point to them again. Fastball's The Way is... reeaaaaally fucking dark if you look up the backstory, but it does make the song a little bit more poignant.
For video games and anime, I'm a bit of a basic bitch. Gurren Lagann's Libera Me From Hell and FLCL's I Think I Can aren't ultimate songs -- I'd say not even the best songs from their respective shows -- but the ethos they describe and how they reinforce the themes of the shows are extremely powerful. The Chrono Cross soundtrack is from a pretty meh game and there's nothing special about Scars of Time beyond just being good, but I'd listened to it on repeat a lot in a specific time and trance state, so I don't think I can resist reacting to it now.
My first instinct was to point out the Homeworld soundtrack. I am, of course, a bit of a fanboy - and the music is a large part of it. It has a vaguely middle-eastern theme to it, and when you think middle east you of course think islam, ergo religion, ergo sacred. It helps that the plot of game is woven from several quasi-religious themes. Plus it appeals to my aesthetic sensibilities in pretty much every way. And the sequel, though its plot is garbage, also has excellent visuals and music. Overall it's music that naturally positions itself as quasi-sacred or pseudo-sacred, since there's much to suggest the association and little to contradict it.
Well now that is a surprise. Haven't heard that in over twenty years. And my reaction back then was indeed that it was very, very good. A musical call to adventure. I never played Chrono Cross, but I could well imagine that music playing over the title screen or for the intro. It comes close to "sacred" in my view because it evokes themes of good people going out to do unambiguously good things, as JRPG protagonists are wont to do.
Speaking of JRPGs, I'd offer the Wild Arms intro music in much the same vein as the song from Chrono Cross: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aq8EKttSu3I
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