Hi,
I'm a little late. I don't know what people said about that in detail. I wanted to let it sink a little. Maybe I will be repeating something that was already said. Anyway. Here is my interpretation of the mural:
I will first give you my random thoughts, with probabilities indicated by the + signs (+++ = most likely)
1ST WORLD
"Within the earth there was fire"
> Hell? +++
> Volcanic activity? ++
> Earthquake? ++
> Extraction of a resources from the earth? +++
> Exploitation factory? +++
> Discovering of a New form of natural or earthly energy? +++
> Creation of the mother flame? +++
"Mankind succumbed to greed and touched the forbidden sun"
> Someone or some group went too far? +++
> Adam or Eve and the forbidden fruit? ++
> Lucifer and light? ++
> Humanity’s destruction by greed? +++
> Technological developments? ++
> Discovery of Devil Fruits? ++
> Creation of Devil Fruits? +++
>>> Creation of a system of domination and exploitation +++
"The enslaved prayed and the sun god appeared"
> Creation of liberation myths? +++
> Beginning of a revolution? ++
> Creation of Nika through devil fruit's creation or the exploitation of energy? +++
> First user of the the Hito hito no mi model Nika? +++
"The earth god raged and with its serpent of hellfire, shrouded the world in death and darkness"
> Revolution crushed? +++
> Earthquake? +++
> Eruption? ++
> Ancient weapon used? +++
> Creation of the Red Line? +++
> Nidhogg allied with the "earth god"? ++
> An earth Logia? +++
> The 20 Kingdoms win a first time? +++
"And they will never meet"
> Characters separated? ++
> Total night? +++
> Night and day are separated and humanity has no hope? +++
2ND WORLD
"Within the void there was a breath"
> Has there ALREADY been a Void Century? +++
> A gap in time? +++
> New hope? +++
> New birth? ++
> Counter attack against the kingdoms?
"The forest god tamed demons and the Sun spread the fires of war."
> A new revolution or uprising?
> A Fruit that tamed demons? ++
> A forest Logia that destroyed demons? ++
> A gigantic war? +++
> Massive fire against demons? ++
> A force of dissuasion was used against the 20? +++
"Those of the half-moon dreamed"
> The D clan sets the plan in motion? +++
> The dream of the D? +++
> The Minks? ++
"Those of the moon dreamed"
> Alliance of the D and the Lunarians? +++
> Return of hope?
"Man killed the sun and became god"
> Imu kills Joy Boy? +++
> The kingdom Alliance asserts its power and destroy the uprising? +++
> Imu becomes king of the world and the celestial dragons are born? +++
> Imu destroys hope and the fruit tree? +++
"And the sea god stormed"
> Total flood? +++
> Destruction of several islands? +++
"And they will never meet"
> Day and night never meet? +++
> The hope is in the future and the D? +++
3RD WORLD
"Within the chaos there was emptiness"
> Depression? ++
> A huge span of time? +++
> 800 years and the Void Century? +++
"The inconvenient remnants recall the promised day and hear the voice of the half-moon"
> Presence of the Poneglyphs, which will tell the complete story and the purpose and "will" of the D? +++
"The sun god dances and laughs"
> Luffy awakens? +++
"Guiding the world to its end"
> Luffy leads the world toward Ragnarök and the end of this world but also the end of oppression? +++
"The sun return and brings a new morning"
> End of oppression? +++
> New promise for the future? +++
"And they will surely meet"
> Night and day will finally meet again, toward a new dawn and a new day? +++
Interpretation :
To me, aside from the happy ending, everything is pointing first toward the destruction of the oppressive and physical world and "hell". We are physically or thematically going there, I think it's a given and maybe we already are in it with Hellheim, again, I don't know… But from the influence of the mythos of Orpheus with Brook, to the multiple references to the King of Hell from Zoro, to the Hell Memories from Sanji or his multiple references to the devil and the fallen angel, to the transformation of Robin, to the symbolism of Luffy as the bringer of light (literally Lucifer), to the various occurrences of the Straw Hats being depicted as demons…
.. I think the story is bringing us toward a really fiery and potentially dramatic climax… ALL BLUE fiery? Perhaps… It's hell after all and there is the river Styx there…
The One Piece could literally be.. something helping us to go to hell... the gates of hell, maybe?
Wait.. Styx... ?
I'm a little late. I don't know what people said about that in detail. I wanted to let it sink a little. Maybe I will be repeating something that was already said. Anyway. Here is my interpretation of the mural:
I will first give you my random thoughts, with probabilities indicated by the + signs (+++ = most likely)
1ST WORLD
"Within the earth there was fire"
> Hell? +++
> Volcanic activity? ++
> Earthquake? ++
> Extraction of a resources from the earth? +++
> Exploitation factory? +++
> Discovering of a New form of natural or earthly energy? +++
> Creation of the mother flame? +++
"Mankind succumbed to greed and touched the forbidden sun"
> Someone or some group went too far? +++
> Adam or Eve and the forbidden fruit? ++
> Lucifer and light? ++
> Humanity’s destruction by greed? +++
> Technological developments? ++
> Discovery of Devil Fruits? ++
> Creation of Devil Fruits? +++
>>> Creation of a system of domination and exploitation +++
"The enslaved prayed and the sun god appeared"
> Creation of liberation myths? +++
> Beginning of a revolution? ++
> Creation of Nika through devil fruit's creation or the exploitation of energy? +++
> First user of the the Hito hito no mi model Nika? +++
"The earth god raged and with its serpent of hellfire, shrouded the world in death and darkness"
> Revolution crushed? +++
> Earthquake? +++
> Eruption? ++
> Ancient weapon used? +++
> Creation of the Red Line? +++
> Nidhogg allied with the "earth god"? ++
> An earth Logia? +++
> The 20 Kingdoms win a first time? +++
"And they will never meet"
> Characters separated? ++
> Total night? +++
> Night and day are separated and humanity has no hope? +++
2ND WORLD
"Within the void there was a breath"
> Has there ALREADY been a Void Century? +++
> A gap in time? +++
> New hope? +++
> New birth? ++
> Counter attack against the kingdoms?
"The forest god tamed demons and the Sun spread the fires of war."
> A new revolution or uprising?
> A Fruit that tamed demons? ++
> A forest Logia that destroyed demons? ++
> A gigantic war? +++
> Massive fire against demons? ++
> A force of dissuasion was used against the 20? +++
"Those of the half-moon dreamed"
> The D clan sets the plan in motion? +++
> The dream of the D? +++
> The Minks? ++
"Those of the moon dreamed"
> Alliance of the D and the Lunarians? +++
> Return of hope?
"Man killed the sun and became god"
> Imu kills Joy Boy? +++
> The kingdom Alliance asserts its power and destroy the uprising? +++
> Imu becomes king of the world and the celestial dragons are born? +++
> Imu destroys hope and the fruit tree? +++
"And the sea god stormed"
> Total flood? +++
> Destruction of several islands? +++
"And they will never meet"
> Day and night never meet? +++
> The hope is in the future and the D? +++
3RD WORLD
"Within the chaos there was emptiness"
> Depression? ++
> A huge span of time? +++
> 800 years and the Void Century? +++
"The inconvenient remnants recall the promised day and hear the voice of the half-moon"
> Presence of the Poneglyphs, which will tell the complete story and the purpose and "will" of the D? +++
"The sun god dances and laughs"
> Luffy awakens? +++
"Guiding the world to its end"
> Luffy leads the world toward Ragnarök and the end of this world but also the end of oppression? +++
"The sun return and brings a new morning"
> End of oppression? +++
> New promise for the future? +++
"And they will surely meet"
> Night and day will finally meet again, toward a new dawn and a new day? +++
Interpretation :
- What I see here is the tales of two failed revolutions. One initiated against an exploitative civilization that went too far and the other that fought on the remains of the first.
- The exploitative civilization was probably the one which created the mother flame and the Devil Fruit first in the first world.. perhaps it has something to do with people coming from the moon? I'm not sure..
- A bearer of the Niddhog fruit had something to do with the event? Perhaps we are talking about another snake or just the redline.
- The slaves prayed or fought and somehow gave birth to the hito hito no mi model Nika in this first world. It could have something to do with Joyboy (in the first world), but it could also be an ancestor as the text also mentions a void at the beginning of the second text.
- After a timeskip, a second revolution was initiated. Probably by the remnants of the first fighters. It could very well be a fight taking place just after or a few years later. Somehow the revolutionaries used something to scare the alliance… but it was not enough. Imu took the lead, killed Joyboy and took the place of King of the World.
- A flood and a void century. After that… it's pretty well known: Poneglyphs, the will of the D, Luffy appears and brings the world of pain toward destruction.
- And finally Luffy pushes the sun on the world, allowing the night to meet a new day. A new dawn. A new hope and promises of peace.
To me, aside from the happy ending, everything is pointing first toward the destruction of the oppressive and physical world and "hell". We are physically or thematically going there, I think it's a given and maybe we already are in it with Hellheim, again, I don't know… But from the influence of the mythos of Orpheus with Brook, to the multiple references to the King of Hell from Zoro, to the Hell Memories from Sanji or his multiple references to the devil and the fallen angel, to the transformation of Robin, to the symbolism of Luffy as the bringer of light (literally Lucifer), to the various occurrences of the Straw Hats being depicted as demons…
.. I think the story is bringing us toward a really fiery and potentially dramatic climax… ALL BLUE fiery? Perhaps… It's hell after all and there is the river Styx there…
The One Piece could literally be.. something helping us to go to hell... the gates of hell, maybe?
Wait.. Styx... ?
