>>54261049Arceus' own 'dex entry says it shaped the world with "its many arms". Arceus' silhouette is a hand, stretched out. Furthermore, we (being /vp/ of the early years, when Gen 4 was current) had already come to the consensus Arceus the pokémon was but a fraction of Arceus the deity, because the 'dex is absolute canon, thus Arceus must be something more than in-game portrays..
Problem, is most people denied the creation myth told in Gen 4 and said Arceus couldn't have created the pokémon world because reasons and malding and i don't want an overgrown sheep to have made everything reeee. Nothing changed, except Game Freak made it explicitly clear, for the simple kids what the skinny was.
