The "original" Scars of Time...

[Chrono'99]

An agent of the Norwegian-Sami singer Mari Boine has noticed the heavy similarities between Mitsuda's theme Scars of Time and Boine's song Gilvve Gollat ("Sow your Gold"). He started a topic on CocoeBiz's forums with a short clip of the song so people can compare, and he's right! The intro of both themes are definitely similar. Gilvve Gollat was released in 1994 and we all know Mitsuda is a great fan of ethnic and world music. It's anyone's guess whether Mitsuda "plagiarized" the theme or whether he was just "inspired" by it. The songs differ from each other after the intro in any case.

http://www.cocoebiz.com/forums/showthread.php?t=629

[Glennleo]

Yea they definitely sound similar, but I don't think it was an exact copy. Definitely not plagiarized, I'd vote for more of an inspiration myself.

[Magus22]

I don't think the men and woman like Mitsuda and Kato would plagirize something like this. However, it wouldn't slip my mind if they were "inspired" by the theme enough and to the point of re-writing how the song goes.

[nightmare975]

Mari must have travelled back in time and tried to make the song his own. lol jkjk

[saridon]

hmm no, insipration at the most there's so many songs that have similer parts from sheer chance that its unlikely to be a copy.