>>55895913I have a similar feeling with Golem, at the time it was given that name because it sounded cool, regardless of the fact that it did not resemble the mythological Golem, I think that in Japan its name is just the onomatopoeia of something rolling.
Now we have a real Golem of Prague, and we know a little more about the pop culture of the 70s and 80s that inspired the original Pokémon, even so from time to time an "expert" appears on YouTube mentioning in his/her tribia that Golem is inspired in the Golem of Prague and completely ignoring Golurk or the fact that the American names are just location work (Some very clever) but have nothing to do with the original concept.
