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Four Islands Four Tiki Gods
I found it interesting that they announced each island has a guardian and there are four islands meaning there would be four guardians. Coincidentally there are four tiki gods in Hawaiian mythology. I believe each guardian is going to be something resembling a tiki statue or something revolving with a tiki. What do you guys think of this theory please discuss because I am convinced this will happen.
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That is actually a very accurate theory. I didn't know that there were Tiki Gods for Hawaii and I think you are right.
Ku – Ancient Tiki God of War Lono – Ancient Tiki God of Fertility and Peace Kane– Ancient Tiki God of Light and Life Kanaloa – Ancient Tiki God the Sea These would also match Masuda's reasoning for making one pokemon Sun and one Moon. It is because he wanted to make the theme as close to life as possible. And all of these are parts of life. War, Sea, Fertility, Light and Life. |
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Edit: looking into the strange souvenir from X & Y it looks like a tiki statue |
This is a very real possiblity and kind of blows my mind looking further into this good find!
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This is interesting. I wonder if they'll be the gym leader or the elite four? Or just something else?
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I want to bump this a bit for all to see. It is almost certain that this theory is correct.
We do not know if these are legends yet, but the idea seems to be almost confirmed. I would say this Topu is based on Kane, who is Light and Life. Which matches the typing. The other might be Water, Fighting, and Grass or Ground. They might all have a secondary typing of Fairy. |
You beat me to it. I made this on my Poké amino page and wanted to post it here about my theory on this. Id like to believe there is going to be 4 mythica or guardianl Pokémon, one for each island.
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I had posted this in another thread, but I'll post it here too. Tapu Koko is the guardian of MeleMele Island, which is your starting island. "MeleMele" is the Hawaiian word for "yellow", and Tapu Koko is both the color yellow and an Electric type. There's a theory out there that the 4 main islands of Alola will be named after the original 4 versions of the Pokemon games to coincide with the 20th Anniversary: Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow. If that turns out to be true, I'm thinking that this is what we'll get for the other island guardians: Fire/Fairy, Water/Fairy, and Grass/Fairy.
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Also the masks of the tiki might take shape on the pokemon, like the one Topu has, which looked like a beak somewhat. These are what all the masks look like, Lono of Fertility and Peace. http://i.imgur.com/0Kt0AXH.png Ku of War http://i.imgur.com/Z2XpqlQ.png Kane of Light and Life. http://i.imgur.com/rTibhqY.png Kanaloa of Sea http://i.imgur.com/neDVL1V.png There is also a 5th called Pele, daughter of Kane. She is goddess of Lighting, Lava, Fire and Power of the earth. She could be a mythical pokemon. |
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Though I guess a Fire/Fairy could also be the war one. I think that the war one might belong the big island, as there are some monuments in the big island made by the order of Kamehameha. |
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I'm also starting to wonder if these 4 guardians will serve as the Mesprit, Uxie, and Azelf of Alola and have a close connection to Solgaleo and Lunala. You might need all 4 guardians to activate them. |
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You know this scene from the trailer: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/4qmu1u/tapukoko_doesnt_give_a_****_about_the_birds_in/
I was just thinking maybe this is the moment you meet Tapu Koko? Maybe you get attacked by a flock of Spearow and Tapu Koko comes to rescue you. I think Hala (or somebody) mentioned that the player character had already met Tapu Koko. It would make sense for it to rescue you since it's the guardian of the starting island. |
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I feel like people try too hard to tie pokemon to their mythological origins. People try and predict types and which animals they'll be based on but then pokemon do something unexpected. For example, Solgaleo is based on the sun, however it's a steel type. Rayquaza is based on the creature "ziz" which is usually depicted as a giant bird but it's a dragon. The musketeers are four legged beasts with horns for swords.
In the end pokemon create their own legends and lore so they only really uses the real world legends as a foundation and then put their own twist on it. |
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Rayquaza was based on more than just Ziz. And also, We have been right on almost everything since BW came out based on wise. The Musketeersd still use swords and have Sacred Sword, which was there signature move when it first came out. Solgaleo is not based on the sun, it is an emissary of the sun. But not based on it. And all legends are inspired by something in mythology. And this is what the four guardians are inspired by. I just don't think it is possible to prove that theory wrong. Even if they don't look like Topu, they may still have similarities of the 4 Tiki Gods. |
Maybe the evil team will be collecting the deities of each island and we have to rescue them or fight them if they are turned dark..
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This theory has blown my mind away and it makes me more excited and I'm really looking forward to more news regarding S&M. November, please come soon. ;-;
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I actually considered this too, since there are four islands meaning a guardian for each one. As other people have already said Tapu Koko is probably Kane.
This would also be the first time there's a legendary group made up of four pokemon- most are 2 or 3. (The Swords of Justice don't count, cuz Keldo was just kinda tacked onto the end.) |
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I think we will see a guardian for each island. The E3 stuff pretty much told us that, and I think they will be like Azelf, Mesprit and Uxie.
However, we also have a man made island, and a man made Pokemon. It could be that it's not a set of four, but a set of five with Magearna. Magearna isn't a guardian of the islands so much, but a guardian of Pokemon. |
And Magearna got a new look revealed back then.
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It's like, imagine we were told there would be 4 Pokemon based on the story of the three musketeers, would you have predicted quadrupeds? Would you have been able to predict their types? I enjoy speculation of course; that's what I'm here for! I just meant to say that they're often only based loosely on things and like you said can be based on multiple things. In hindsight "try too hard" was the wrong way to phrase it, my bad. I mean to say that we should expect a Pokemon twist to the mythology. With all that said, I really like the idea that the other 3 could be fire/water/grass. That's been a staple of Pokemon since the beginning with red/blue/green/yellow and all the starters ever since. Also matches the rainbow theme with islands being named after colours. |
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