Shadow Temple

The is the seventh in . Located in the back of the Kakariko Village Graveyard, it can be accessed once Link learns the Nocturne of Shadow. The Shadow Temple emphasizes macabre themes such as Death and Fear, and arguably features the most terrifying enemies of the game. 
==Themes and Navigation==
The Shadow Temple was historically a place used by the Sheikah to interrogate enemies of the Royal Family of Hyrule. Because of the dark stain on Hyrule's history that it represents, it is taboo for the Royal Family to speak of the Shadow Temple. Consequently, some of the walls and floors are stained with blood (much like the Bottom of the Well), and torture equipment is located in several rooms.
In comparison to other Temples, the Shadow Temple guides the Hero of Time through a straight route, except in some parts where the young hero has to deviate in order to find keys or an item. The temple is filled with undead creatures, deadly twisted traps, and mind-bending puzzles everywhere all designed to trap anyone who enters the crypt. It is also filled to the brim with invisible walls and passageways only visible using the Lens of Truth. Many concealed Skulltulas hang in rooms and corridors within the temple's walls. Link's goal is to go to the bottom of the temple, where its boss, Bongo Bongo, is found; because of the temple's mostly linear structure, its difficulty is based on the numerous enemies, silver Rupee collections, invisible obstacles and traps within. There is also a Bomb Flower puzzle similar to those seen in Dodongo's Cavern.
These are the two keys to finishing the Shadow Temple: being able to see through illusion and the adjusting of Link's weight, from lighter than air to being heavy enough to walk on the ocean floor. Without being able to do either, the Shadow Temple cannot be finished. A little used strategy in the Shadow Temple is when Link comes across the active fans in a corridor, the Iron Boots can be used to resist their push. The Hover Boots, the temple's treasure item, are known by all to be used to cross large gaps otherwise insurmountable.
The Lens of Truth reduces the difficulty of the Shadow Temple drastically, including against Bongo Bongo. It allows Link to see through fake walls and holes, as well as invisible obstacles, platforms and even enemies.
At one point, a large boat referred to as "the ferry to the other world" must be ridden by Link on his way to retrieve the Boss Key. The ferry begins to sail when Link plays "Zelda's Lullaby" on the Ocarina of Time. During this journey, he must fight multiple Stalfos on the ship's deck. Upon reaching the end of the route, the boat will sink into the fog. This will cause Link to void out if he doesn't jump off in time.
The mini-boss of this dungeon is Dead Hand; it is unknown whether or not this is the same one as at the Bottom of the Well, but it serves as the guardian of the Hover Boots here. The boss of the temple, as mentioned above, is Bongo Bongo; it's an undead monster consisting of a giant torso, one protruding eye, and two huge disembodied hands beating on a giant bongo drum. It is never sufficiently explained why there is such a drum in the basement, though it could be an inside joke to the bosses' name by the developers. When Bongo Bongo is defeated, Impa, the Sheikah assistant of Princess Zelda, awakens as the Sage of Shadow.
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Compared to other dungeons, the Shadow Temple presents much less of a challenge. The main changes to the dungeon involves the type and number of enemies encountered. The number of Beamos and Keese has been increased, and there are fewer Skulltulas than before. The order in which the rooms are visited is still the same, and the Hover Boots are less useful than in the original quest. Instead of a Floormaster, there are now Bubble#Blue Bubbles and a Like Like in the room with invisible walls. There is now a silver Rupee puzzle in the invisible reaper room, and one of the reaper statues constanty changes the speed of its swirling scythes. One of the rooms with giant rotating skulls now contains Stalfos, which give a reward of 20 Rupees when defeated. The most notorious change is a room with several Bomb Flowers. Instead of an invisible Floormaster, a second Dead Hand with no hands now appears, defeating it awards the young hero with a bundle of Arrows.
===Small Keys===
*In the original, there are five small keys.
*In Master Quest, there are six.
===Minor Enemies and Traps===
File:OoT Beamos Model.png|Beamos
File:OoT Big Blade Model 2.png|
File:OoT Big Skulltula Model.png|Big Skulltula
File:OoT Blade Trap Model.png|Blade Trap
File:OoT Blue Bubble Model.png|Blue Bubble (Master Quest only)
File:OoT Floormaster Model.png|Floormaster
File:OoT Floor Spikes Model.png|Floor Spikes
File:OoT Fire Eye Model.png|Fire Eye
File:OoT Gibdo Model.png|Gibdo
File:OoT Gold Skulltula Model.png|Gold Skulltula
File:Guillotines.jpg|Guillotine
File:OoT Keese Model.png|Keese
File:OoT Like Like Model.png|Like Like
File:PoisonWaterOoT.png|Poison Water
File:OoT Red Bubble Model.png|Red Bubble
File:OoT ReDead Model.png|ReDead
File:OoT Skulltula Model.png|Skulltula (Master Quest only)
File:OoT Stalfos Model.png|Stalfos
File:No Image.png|Wall Spikes
File:OoT Wallmaster Model.png|Wallmaster
==Trivia==
* According to The Great Hyrule Encyclopedia, the Shadow Temple was built using the bones of Hyrule's "evil dead" and the traps within were designed to add more bodies to the crypts.
* Like the Bottom of the Well, stained red blood can be found on some floors and walls within the Shadow Temple, likely as a representation of Hyrule's dark history. Blood, however, is quite uncommon in The Legend of Zelda series, or Nintendo titles in general, as almost always it is never depicted and even if so, it normally would not be in this shade of color, as often it is used for graphic violence. Blood can also be seen on Ganon when he is ultimately defeated in both his human and beast forms, although in later versions of the N64 game it is censored to green. Despite this, the Temple's blood remains red even in the 3DS remake. Strangely, the blood did not affect the original game's Everyone ("E") rating by the ESRB in spite of the risk of being Teen ("T"), though Ocarina of Time 3D obtained the Everyone 10+ ("E10+") level.
==Nomenclature==
==Gallery==
File:Shadow.jpg|The entrance to the Shadow Temple
File:Opening temple shadow.jpg|Link opening the door to Temple with Din's Fire
File:OoT Shadow Temple.png|The first main room of the Temple
File:Shadow temple fake wall.jpg|A fake wall seen with the Lens of Truth
File:Shadow temple run.jpg|A corridor of the Temple
File:Shadow temple boat battle.jpg|Fighting off Stalfos on the ferry
File:Shadow Temple Fan.gif|One of the fans in the Temple
File:OoT Bongo Bongo Introduction.png|The Temple's boss Bongo Bongo
File:Shadowoot.jpg|The Dungeon Map of the Shadow Temple