>>57102242It’s funny, because the Japanese fans also have known for years that the boxart legendaries aren’t literally meant to be gods or anything, nor do they hold dominion over aspects of reality like oceans, time, death, and so on. Those are just myths.
I remember an old theory from a Japanese blog that Arceus worshippers basically flooded into ancient Sinnoh and killed Regigigas worshippers in a holy war, and that’s where the “defeated giants” myth comes from and why Regigigas is sealed at the bottom of a temple largely unconnected to the rest of the region’s culture. The idea was that they also stole the Greek-themed architecture of the Regifags and used it to make temples to Arceus like Spear Pillar and Sinjoh.
