Sinnoh Mythology

Betray not your anger, lest ??? will

come.

Weep not with sorrow, or ??? will

draw near.

When joy and enjoyment come natural

as the very air, that is happiness.

Let such be blessed by the hand

of Master ???.

Those words were spoken often

as customary (Thought to be Mesprit)

Long ago, when Sinnoh had just been

made, Pokémon and humans led

separate lives.

That is not to say they did not help

each other. No, indeed they did.

They supplied each other with goods,

and supported each other.

A Pokémon proposed to the others

to always be ready to help humans.

It asked that Pokémon be ready to

appear before humans always.

Thus, to this day, Pokémon appear

to us if we venture into tall grass (why pokemon appear in the tall grass)

 

Three Pokémon there were.

Into the lakes they dove.

Deep, deep, drawing no breath.

Deeper, deeper they dove.

Into suffocating depths they dove.

Deeper, then deepest they alight.

From the lake floor they rise.

Bearing with them the power to make

vast lands, they rise again.(lake guardians)

 

 

A young man, callow and foolish in

innocence, came to own a sword.

With it, he smote Pokémon, which gave

sustenance, with carefree abandon.

Those not taken as food, he

discarded, with no afterthought.

The following year, no Pokémon

appeared. Larders grew bare.

The young man, seeking the missing

Pokémon, journeyed afar.

Long did he search. And far and wide,

too, until one he did find.

Asked he, "Why do you hide?"

To which the Pokémon replied...

"If you bear your sword to bring

harm upon us, with claws and

fangs, we will exact a toll.

"From your kind we will take our

toll, for it must be done.

"Done it must be to guard ourselves

and for it, I apologize."

To the skies, the young man shouted

his dismay.

"In having found the sword, I have

lost so much.

"Gorged with power, I grew blind

to Pokémon being alive.

"I will never fall savage again.

This sword I denounce and forsake.

"I plead for forgiveness,

for I was but a fool."

So saying, the young man hurled the

sword to the ground, snapping it.

Seeing this, the Pokémon disappeared

to a place beyond seeing...(may possibly refer to Giratina)

In the beginning, there was only

a churning turmoil of chaos.

At the heart of chaos, where all

things became one, appeared an Egg.

Having tumbled from the vortex, the

Egg gave rise to the Original One.

From itself, two beings the Original

One did make.

Time started to spin.

Space began to expand.

From itself again, three living things

the Original One did make.

The two beings wished, and from them,

matter came to be.

The three living things wished, and

from them, spirit came to be.

The world created, the Original One

took to unyielding sleep...(creation of the world)

Look not into the Pokémon's eyes.

In but an instant, you'll have no

recollection of who you are.

Return home, but how?

When there is nothing to remember?

Dare not touch the Pokémon's body.

In but three short days, all emotions

will drain away.

Above all, above all, harm not

the Pokémon.

In a scant five days, the offender

will grow immobile in entirety. (Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf)

"Sinnoh Folk Story 1"

Pick clean the bones of Pokémon

caught in the sea or stream.

Thank them for the meals they

provide, and pick their bones clean.

When the bones are as clean as can

be, set them free in the water from

which they came.

The Pokémon will return, fully

fleshed, and it begins anew.

"Sinnoh Folk Story 2"

There lived a Pokémon in a forest.

In the forest, the Pokémon shed its

hide to sleep as a human.

Awakened, the human dons the

Pokémon hide to roam villages.

"Sinnoh Folk Story 3"

There once were Pokémon that

became very close to humans.

There once were humans and Pokémon

that ate together at the same table.

It was a time when there existed no

differences to distinguish the two. 

 

 

A body of rock.

A body of ice.

A body of steel.

When gather those three together,

the king will appear. (Regigias)

 

 

When this world was made, Dialga and Palkia appeared.

Apparently, there was one more Pokémon that appeared at the same time.

A Pokémon with as much power as Dialga and Palkia...

But also one whose name was never to be spoken--Giratina!

It's said to lurk in another world... A world on the opposite side of ours... 

 

 

The legend of Giratina has been all but forgotten but to a few...

The legend told of a world on the other side of ours. This world.

Why does this world exist? Why is Giratina here all alone?

 

 

The light in the center represents either Dialga or Palkia appearing at the Spear Pillar.

The three lights around it were thought to be Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf.

But, then, I realized that there may be another way of interpreting this.

Could this triangle of lights actually represent a different trio?

Could they be Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina instead?

And the large light in the center. Does it represent something else?

Could it be what created this world of ours?

Do you know of the ancient Plates they find all over Sinnoh?

One of them had this engraved on it.

"Two beings of time and space set free from the Original One."

I think this quote, too, points to the presence of another Pokémon.

A Pokémon even more powerful than Dialga or Palkia.

Does that sound plausible to you?

I'm not quite sure how Giratina fits into this scheme of things, but...

It's said that in the Distortion World, neither time nor space were stable.

I think that tells us something about Giratina, the only Pokémon there.

It must have been as powerful as Dialga and Palkia, the rulers of time and space.

In some way, though, Giratina has to have a power opposite of theirs.

A long time ago, I wonder what sort of person painted this?

Dialga's Roar of Time... Palkia's Spacial Rend...

To the people back then, those Pokémon really must have appeared to rule over time and space.

Seeing them must have shaken the people to their very core.

This painting represents those feelings of awe, wonder, and everything else.

It passed that memory to countless people, eventually becoming a myth...(Cynthia)

 

 

This is a collection of engravings from ancient Plates found in Sinnoh.

"The Original One breathed alone before the universe came."

"When the universe was created, its shards became this Plate."

"The power of defeated giants infuses this Plate."

"Two beings of time and space set free from the Original One."

"Three beings were born to bind time and space."

"Two make matter, and three make spirit, shaping the world."

"The powers of Plates are shared among Pokémon."

"The rightful bearer of a Plate draws from the Plate it holds."