>>304626877 UBs, 7 classical planets based on Roman Gods. (Neptune and Pluto aren't included because alchemists couldn't see them)
>>30462923So apparently, Alola's lore is based on Alchemy, specifically the more "astronomical" side.
The triangle in the picture is known as the Azoth triangle, with the face of an Alchemist in the center, and each of his appendages reaching for one of the classical elements: fire, water, earth, and air (the feather). Around the alchemist's face are the symbols for the seven classical planets: the sun, the moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter, and saturn, with each corresponding to its own mineral: gold, silver, mercury, copper, iron, tin, and lead, respectively.
The points of the triangle represent the three concepts around which consciousness is based: Anima, Spiritus, and Corpus; the mind, the spirit, and the body.
Each of these three has another representation: Anima is represented by King Sol, who rules over the day. Spiritus is Queen Luna, the ruler of the night. Corpus, however, is represented by a cube surrounded by five stars. While Corpus is associated with the earth, the five stars represent the fifth element every Alchemist was working to discover: Aether, also known as Azoth itself.
Azoth is the single force -- the "spiritus animatis," as Wikipedia puts it -- of humanity that drives it to attain physical and spiritual perfection. Not only this, the Azoth seems to also have a physical incarnation as the "Elixir of Life" or "The Universal Solvent," and was known as the cure for any mental, spiritual, or physical ailment. Essentially, it's perfection in physical form.
Another thing of note is that Azoth's name was constructed from the first and last letters of the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew alphabets, in that order: A/Alpha/Aleph, Z, Omega, and Tau, which ties in to the "Beginning and End" motif present in AZ, and Alpha and Omega.
