#instead you get the whole rant about enel's ark and noah's ark in the middle sorry bout that www

[franeridan]

ok it's been four days since I first read the op fairytale/prophecy/history lesson and I've spent all of them thinking about it and reading theories about it this is how I'm understanding it right now

I don't know how literal this is going to be (depends on whether the first world really was our modern world or not) but I'm reasonably sure at least the inspiration for this bit is a nuclear war or at least the nuclear fission, since for obvious reasons that's a point of inspiration for end of the world scenarios in japanese media pretty often

A reference to the first instance of Nika's awakening, obviously, though I have no clue who the god of the earth might be still (maybe imu? But it's more thematic than with any actual evidence so who knows). Might also be just a general reference to the end of the first world/a form of terraforming, since in the second part the same wording is used to refer to the sea levels rising

Absolutely zero clue I'll be honest with you all. I have a sinking feeling this might be somewhat tied to the serpent up in skypiea since there's references to that arc in the mural right under, but I haven't read skypiea in too long to be sure of the hows and whys (might just go look it up tbh)

Breath upon the emptiness obv refers to the birth of new life after the end of the first world. Someone on here mentioned the forest god/demons as a reference to the creation of the devil fruits and I absolutely believe it. The sun spreading war is another obvious reference - joyboy

Half-moon people -> people with the D

Moon people -> I'm thinking lunarians

Since they're called moon and half moon I wonder if the D people are descendants or anyway somehow related to lunarians btw. I mentioned in another post that I'm starting to believe some people of the first world actually built Enel's ark and reached the moon to escape from the destruction of the first world, and that lunarians might just be direct descendants of the original people of earth - it's obviously just speculation, but the ark in the sky in the first part of the mural does look like Enel's.

Also going on a little tangent but at first I thought the second ark in the bottom left of the first page was ALSO a reference to Enels, but now I'm thinking it's a reference to Noah's ship from fishermen island (there's the animals in pairs by it and all too). Noah's ship is supposed to have been built during the void century so now I'm wondering whether the one on the mural is literally the one we see in the story and that part of the mural is just referring to the second world, or if like Enel with his own ark the fishermen of the void century had stories about the original ark and rebuilt it to save life from the flooding (then again, why would fishermen need an ark to be saved from the flooding? I've had a suspicion that they evolved into fishermen after or during the void century for a while now and that's why they have history that they used to live on land tbh, this might just give me a little more to add on that theory)

Btw, I remember long ago thinking that maybe the D only served to identify the descendants of the people original to laugh tale, and that was why they were the celestial dragons natual enemies since they were at war with them. I wonder how that ties in all of this if they really are relatives of the lunarians somehow

Anyway, back on track

The celestial dragons killed joyboy and ascended to mariejois, pretty direct. Worth remembering that to ascend to meriejois aside from killing joyboy they also had to pretty much exterminate the lunarians, who lived there before them. War on the D (half moon) people in laugh tale, war on the lunarians (moon) on mariejois

Reference to the sea levels rising. Starting to think the god of the sea is pretty directly and simply poseidon (the ancient weapon who is now shirahoshi, I mean)

The world government erased every mention of the war with joyboy from history and created the void century, pretty direct

(no more than ten pics from the app so rip ig)

In the official translations the "fragmented moon" is simply translated as half-moon so this is probably a reference to the D people and how they still fight against the world government whether consciously or by fate (about how the D people always bring chaos and change, I'm thinking that's what it might mean when it says "hear the voice of the half moon" -> something in them tells them to spread chaos, which is kinda funny ngl)

The second part is literally just Luffy and how he's gonna cause the third end and rebirth of the world, as every nika has done before him (I mentioned so already somewhere else but I believe madame shirley's prediction about luffy destroying fishermen island falls somewhere around here too)

If ANYONE has any clue what "they will never meet again" -> "they will surely meet again" is referring to please let me know it's driving me NUTS who are we talking about here !!!

EDIT: okay I just now read someone mention this last point might be talking abou the four seas and you know what!!! I might just believe it!!!