Look at the card Rasputin 3:
You have
Yuga Sundown - Yuga is a Hindi concept of a epoch with golden period followed by decline - eventually returning to the cycle.
Fenrir Heart - Fenrir is Norse myth of a wolf who will kill Odin during Ragnarok
Surtr Drown - Surtr, another Norse Myth, a giant of destructive power who reigns havoc on earth during Ragnarok
Volupsa failure - one of the Norse poems that detail Ragnarok
All of the references are of Ragnarok or Epochal ends. In the card, Rasputin is shutting himself down and shutting down the other assets. That stop stop stop at the end I don't believe is him talking to someone there - it is essentially programming command to the other assets it's communicating to. Shut down, end program, go offline.
Couple this with Rasputin 2:
You've just launched the array, and Rasputin has gone back online and activated one of the assets shut down - which he uses to take out Vex and Cabal on Mars. This act is tied in with the Garden Spire and Dust Palace strike. Essentially, those assets that Rasputin shut down in the 3rd grimoire card, he's reactivating in the 2nd.
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My only counter to that is, why all the separate origin references? I've had countless hours reading and discussing backstory and such, and heard of people referencing Egyptian bases, Greek, Aztec, Native American and now Norse. None of those seem synergize well enough to make me.believe that every element of this game had a separate origin as a focal point. Aside from that, interesting support for the popular belief of Rasputin and the collapse. My main context for this post was a possible reasoning for exos,humanity's protection unit who primarily records and keeps log of human history, having their memory systems wiped however many times any given unit received.