The SEVERAL Origins of Xerneas, Yveltal and Zygarde! | Gnoggin - Pokemon XY

so you think you know the Gen six legendary trio do you expose II Norse inspirations and all but what if I told you that's wrong or at least that's not all this is the real origin of xerneas yveltal and zygarde welcome we have much to discuss and before getting right into it let's first cover what you may already know as it's been quite some time since the release of Pokemon X&Y six years in fact many know of the Norse inspirations of these Pokemon and to find the specifics we need to only look at the World Tree Yggdrasil this tree uracil also known as the world tree or The Tree of Life is the foundation of Norse myth and cosmology as it connects the nine worlds but that does not mean beings cannot exist between the worlds this is where we will find our origins there are quite a few horned and hoofed creatures residing all around the tree such as the goat hydron and the heart like thea near who graze at its foliage that heart or deer specifically is said to have glowing antlers that trick do with such abundance that it fills the rivers bringing life and rejuvenation to the land and that by itself serves as an excellent basis for the Pokemon of life xerneas but there is even more to be seen all around the base of the world tree there are four stags which are male deer they are Doan de Valen denier and do Roth roar all of them reach up and eat the branches of the tree to Volland specifically who is also a dwarf because it's complicated is said to be the dormant one or the one slumbering which may have inspired xerneas lying dormant in the shape of a tree until it is actively awakened there a number of theories regarding the symbolic meaning of these dear some attributed them to represent the winds or the four cardinal directions which we will speak more of later but another theory is that these four Staggs were added into the late stages of Norse mythology and originally it was one great stag which may point right back to Ike there near the deer of glowing antlers and life bringing abilities but what then of the other two Pokemon yveltal and zygarde well let's look at zygarde next and find out deep beneath the land where the stag resides among the roots of the world tree there is a serpentine dragon known as nidhogg which sustains itself by nine after the roots of the tree as well as chewing up the corpses of the inhabitants of nest rond the part of the world hell for the worst of the worst those guilty of such atrocities such as murder adultery and worst of all both breaking crushing these evildoers may in a way keep those still alive in Midgard earth from doing such heinous acts similar to Christianity's burning in hell this fear of punishment after death in a way help sustain order amongst society and zygarde being the pokemon of order may pull from this very aspect though a prevalent theme in Norse mythology is renewal death and rebirth so some have theorized that by chewing on the corpses but not consuming them it sheds the corpses to begin life anew sin and punishment followed by redemption order it is also worth noting that the arrival of nidhogg heralds Ragnarok Norse Armageddon which in a way was Lysander's plan in the anime to use zygarde to burn Kalos to the ground ending it but there's more to zygarde than just this 50% snake form isn't there the individual cells are and believe that they resemble cells perhaps like you Glenna but then it's 10% 50% and 100% forms are easily inspired from the three children of Loki and anger boda the first is Fenrir the giant wolf clearly represented by 10% zygarde being a dog and it should be noted that Fenrir is bound but when Ragnarok comes around it will break free and kill Odin though it will be later struck down next is Jormungandr the world serpent while different from nidhogg it too works as another inspiration to 50% zygarde it is a sea serpent so massive it's wrapped itself around to the entire world and bit down onto its own tail like the aura boris and it is said that Ragnarok will begin the moment it lets go and during it it is prophesied that it will kill Thor with its poisoned though only after being killed by Thor itself lastly is hell there giant s daughter and ruler of the realm of the same name the one where nidhogg choose upon evil corpses though she does not rule hella by choice rena there she is bound there through force but like Fenrir will break free during Ragnarok these three clearly match the forms of zygarde in shape though their roles are loose at best one could see the form of the orb or is taken by your man Gondor and apply that to zygarde easily after all in alchemy and Gnosticism the aura Boris's symbolism is all is one or everything is in order then he'll being the ruler of the underworld where nidhogg does its thing it's all underground and that may point towards the ground typing of zygarde and then Fenrir is a dog so overall the Norse inspiration of these two still works well sereis is definitely Norse primarily and zygarde and its forms mostly but now how about evil tall high above the Stags and nidhogg up in the canopy of Yggdrasil there resides an eagle this great eagle goes unnamed though its companion a hawk that sits between its eyes is known as that are full near this Eagle knows many things as it is wise and gossips with nidhogg about all of the goings-on and that is where our story ends so a smart bird equals if felt all the pokemon of destruction known for absorbing the life force of all of those around it know though there's also here ace vulgar which translates to corpse swallower and he's a Giants that can transform into an eagle one that sits at the northern edge of the heavens and causes wind to blow when it beats its wings so that's something maybe if you mix the two birds it's still a bit weak though he's no more so as the wind giant not a giant of death and all the Giants eat humans and have names that insinuate violent things so I guess this comes down to I guess that's the inspiration I suppose but I'm never quite happy with that that can't be it while there are times Game Freak is lazy in its design when it comes to the legendary Pokemon they are often deep and pull from many inspirational sources at once so let's go over two more inspirations to get the whole picture X Y Z Y X&Y was a question many threw around when Pokemon X&Y were announced up until that point every Pokemon game was either a color or a gemstone that insinuated a color but X&Y letters many joked about chromosomes for a while but then we got to see the legendary Pokemon and the pieces started falling into place evil tall's whole body is shaped like a Y as are its talons and as Ernie as his body makes an X and has X eyes and several X's within its antlers and then 50% zygarde which was the only form we had at a time when in its default pose is shaped like a Z so many expected a third version a Pokemon Z to happen but it never did regardless of this the second half of the Gen 6 anime was named Pokemon X Y Z this led many to theorize that this was going to be the end of an for ash and the anime XYZ certainly insinuated the end of something and in a way it was the following anime series would take a completely different direction both in story and art design but for all intensive purposes man this wasn't really an end at much at all XYZ then may simply refer to the fact that Pokemon X&Y were the first mainline Pokemon games in 3d as they were on the 3ds and after all and in mathematics and video game modeling for that matter you use a three axis system to represent the three dimensions the x axis is how far something moves left or right horizontally the y axis is how high or low it is vertically and the z axis is how near or far something is XYZ on the 3ds and you can take this access information and apply it to the Pokemon as well the Stags around the north's tree of life walk around on the ground X or as the eagle flies up and down Y when on a 2d diagram of the tree they are essentially the x and y axes but then here comes zygarde the z axis near or far hmm doesn't really fit maybe that's why they cancelled Pokemon Z we couldn't come up with lore but what if I told you now that these directional inspirations lead us to a whole new set of beliefs a whole new trio of gods and for that we look to Hinduism and the Trimurti the triple deity of supreme divinity the three dominant gods in Hinduism Vishnu Shiva and Brahma now being humanoid in nature you might not see the connection right away but what we have here is the god of life and creation the god of destruction and the god of maintenance and order being the Pokemon of destruction rather than of death may help with this connection as it's the same word used to describe Shiva destruction and there are even more connections to make like how xerneas may be a single form of the force - around Yggdrasill thus it's for colored antlers it may also pull then from the foreheads of Brahma and most of all he'll Vishnu has several snake heads behind his own head most commonly five and looking at 50% zygarde what else could these five similar looking scaly heads behind it be plus there is complete zygarde the previous main head becomes the chest face and the five flat heads behind 50% psyche arts head become a humanoid head and four long snake heads you can more easily tell that they are heads by the way they open their mouths when attacking and not only this but in Hinduism there are many gods who can descend to earth in the form of an avatar the material physical appearance of a deity on earth and no other God is more associated with them or has as many as Vishnu replace avatar with form and you'll see what I'm getting at so the Hindu god of maintenance and order the Pokemon of order the snake heads and many forms alone makes it clear to see and this goes deeper to Brahma creates life Shiva destroys and Vishnu maintains the balance between the two as too much of one or the other is a danger to the whole world to the ecosystem similarly zygarde the guardian of the ecosystem must maintain balance between the two but cannot and will not dominate or take over the roles of the other two being fairy mix xerneas immune to zygarde dragon typing and being flying makes evil tall immune to zai guards ground typing in a way that symbolizes how challenging that balancing act is as both life and death have power over the preserver thus the preserver needs more power overall to preserve it this balance is often mentioned in the teachings of the Trimurti and is why Vishnu is often depicted but between the other two preserving and it still goes deeper we can actually look back at the directions again as in Hinduism there are gods of directions north south east west north west south west etc and Vishnu just so happens to be one of them the god of nadir which is the downwards direction directly below an observer and what better direction would fit nidhogg who resides at the lowest point of Yggdrasil and it really does all come together one issue I often see in the Pokemon fandom is the inability of some to see or accept the idea that Pokemon can have multiple inspirational sources sure most Pokemon are just one thing maybe with a small element or two from another but some are such cultural biological and historical hodgepodge --is that things get too complicated and people refuse to see it a brief example is the fire zodiac starter theory that I butchered the name of many see fennekin has a fox because it is one but because it's a fox it's not a dog so the theory is wrong whereas others see the zodiac loosely it doesn't mean specifically a domesticated dog it means doglike which foxes are because Game Freak is allowed to take creative liberties as they do that all the time what the heck is the edo king same goes for cyndaquil it's not a rat it's a mouse therefore the theory is wrong even though in Japanese there's no word that means one or the other they are both the same in Japanese it's rat like not rat period and this may be the case again the Norse mythology theory popped up first in the Western fandom and it has a good bit of evidence for it plus it's easier for us Westerners to understand so even if it doesn't fully explain everything we accept it it's a lot easier than having to learn about another Eastern religion so some may not accept anything else as an answer but while the Hindu inspiration fills in the blanks by itself it also doesn't tell the full story but Game Freak doesn't have to pick one thing and base a Pokemon on it Pokemon is its own world that pulls some inspiration from ours and as such these Pokemon can easily be Norse and Hindu and based on 3d spatial directions and that's just awesome and with that we've finished Fairy month but if you're interested in more fairy-type content my pal hoops at hip-hop just folks to the video about five fairy type Pokemon theories so click here to check that out and until next time never stop using your noggin

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 30 2019