4th Gen Theory on origins of Legendary Pokemon, as well as what Giratina truly represents.

[Calvo819]

Zapdos would have to repesent Zeus greek god of lighting then.
But what about articuno

how? i dont really see any connection between them. except for the thunder

 

[Spikey-Eared Pichu]

Mew, if you were to compare it, looks very similar to a fetus. Mew is the ancestor to 95% of all exsisting Pokemon.

Arceus is not the 'God' Pokemon. It created, at the most, seven Pokemon; Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Azelf, Mesprit, Uxie, and Mew. Then it disappeared. Im saying it only created those seven because Mew is the ancestor to most Pokemon, so what sense would it make if Arceus simply created all of them?

I still think Lugia and Ho-Oh are representations of Amaterasu and Susanawo, it just makes the most sense to me.

As for Zapdos, I'm quite tired of hearing that Zapdos is the Poke-version of Zeus. If that were true then Zapdos would be a potent deity, not part of a triple who's purpose is nothing more than to be captured (You don't need Zapdos to do anything important and it doesn't serve much purpose). Zapdos simply exsists to exsist, much like Articuno and Moltres.

 

[Alpha_Spike]

Mew, if you were to compare it, looks very similar to a fetus. Mew is the ancestor to 95% of all exsisting Pokemon.

Arceus is not the 'God' Pokemon. It created, at the most, seven Pokemon; Dialga, Palkia, Giratina, Azelf, Mesprit, Uxie, and Mew. Then it disappeared. Im saying it only created those seven because Mew is the ancestor to most Pokemon, so what sense would it make if Arceus simply created all of them?

I still think Lugia and Ho-Oh are representations of Amaterasu and Susanawo, it just makes the most sense to me.

As for Zapdos, I'm quite tired of hearing that Zapdos is the Poke-version of Zeus. If that were true then Zapdos would be a potent deity, not part of a triple who's purpose is nothing more than to be captured (You don't need Zapdos to do anything important and it doesn't serve much purpose). Zapdos simply exsists to exsist, much like Articuno and Moltres.

If you say that about Zapdos then that should make the same with all legendaries. I mean sure some of them unlock events but then so do some rare NORMAL pokemon such as the Pikachu-colored pichu. You cannot dismiss the claims about Zapdos just because it has no event unlocked by it.

As for the whole origin of pokemon well they are all based on something from the real world, be it an animal or a legend. And as with a lot of legends in the real world many of them are practically the same. Its the same with religion. A lot of religions are identical but still different. So to be honest the origin of all the legendary pokemon is this: All the myths and legends of the real world, many of them merged and to be taken as the player sees fit.

 

[Satirical Psyduck]

Well, Dialga represents Time, the fourth dimension. Palkia is the third dimension. So Giratina could be either the second or the fifth dimension.
However, Dialga and Palkia physically represent dinosaurs, or something similar.
So perhaps Giratina also represents one?

On the OTHER topic, the legendary pokemon could be manifests of the legends in the Pokemon regions.

 

[solaris knight]

Nice theories, just one thing:
Giratina supposedly represents anti-matter, not regular matter. "Spacetime is usually interpreted with space being three-dimensional and time playing the role of a fourth dimension that is of a different sort than the spatial dimensions", which, in short, means Dialga and Palkia together represent matter.

However, Giratina is meant to be the opposite of this, living in a world on the reverse side of ours : "In particle physics, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the antiparticle to matter, where antimatter is composed of antiparticles in the same way that normal matter is composed of particles".

You were right with the members of the weather trio. The part about the Johto legendaries was explained perfectly in earlier posts.

As for the member who questioned about what Celebi was based on, it says on Bulbapedia that "It may be based on a fairy or dryad", with dryads being tree spirits in Greek mythology.

 

[Spikey-Eared Pichu]

About Zapdos, what I meant was, that nearly every other legendary Pokemon with the exception of Articuno, and Raikou, has some 'purpose'. Zapdos's exsistence seems incomplete.