>>56196879He's supposed to be made of cast iron, only the figures based on him (made by ancient japanese) are clay, or so says the made up myth from the forged occult document. Other than that, it's just because it's what the figures looked like. Baltoy is based on the smashed up partial version they'd find missing the legs.
>>56196896My point is that this is the rare occasion where they're based on the same thing and some occult mythology slipped into pokemon because whoever pitched Claydol didn't explain the backstory to Nintendo. I replied because Claydol is the opposite of overdesigned, they took an existing design from archeology that other games had already used and removed details to simplify it so it'd be unique for pokemon. There is no high concept at all, it's just existing thing -> pokemon. Like Pidgey, but for clay figures.
>>56196915Those are probably references to the same forged document. It kind of permaetes Japanese pop culture to the same extent that non-factual elements of western religion and mythology do the same in our culture. How many times have you seen 3 Wise Men visiting Baby Jesus in something western? That story occurs nowhere in actual Christian mythology. Same thing with Dogu figures being a god named Arahabaki, it sounds cool and kind of fits what you would think the figures were for, so fiction authors just rolled with it.
