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After watching FMA again, I couldn't help but notice the similarities:

  * The same ripple-like pattern.
  * Both related to godly powers.
  * Both related to balance (Yin-Yang/All-One)
  * Both related to life and death.

[![Rinnegan](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vdh45m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Vdh45.jpg)
[![Eye of
God](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u2Hrkm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/u2Hrk.jpg)

Is there a mythological or conceptual connection between the two? Is one based
on the other?


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Is there a connection between the Eye of God from Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and the Rinnegan from Naruto?


Although I can't find any reliable source, it seems that both are based on
Saṃsāra :

> The repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth (reincarnation) within
> Hinduism, Buddhism, Bön, Jainism, and Yoga.

Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsara)

This represents both the Six Paths of Pain (also Rinne is the Japanese Name
for Samsāra) and the "one is all, all is one"-thing in FMA (as seen in episode
12 of the 2009-anime).


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Not at all, both are different series in different scenarios. Anything related
is because of the different meanings of our cultures that come from ancient
myths.


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