Throughout the story and the different adventures of the straw hat crew, there is a symbol that
appears in seemingly unrelated places over and over again.
It’s a big sphere with 8 satellites around it.
This symbol appears on Skypea in the crest of the shandians, in the flag of Alabasta
and even in Wano, where it’s part of the Kozuki crest.
Now, what sort of meaning could this symbol possibly have to connect these 3, honestly
quite different places?
Could it actually be that, without us realising it, Oda has already subtly revealed the symbol
of the ancient kingdom?
The people probably most literate in the history of the world, next to maybe the Gorosei and
Imu, were the scholars of the island of Ohara.
Inside their library, we can see an enormous Globe, that you’re probably familiar with,
that seems to show the one piece world surrounded by multiple spheres.
Now similarly to OUR scientific history, it’s of course entirely possible, that the scholars
of Ohara simply believed the earth to be the centre of the solar system and these objects
are the planets circling the earth.
However, I PERSONALLY think it is not at all far fetched to assume that they were actually
WAY more sophisticated than that.
This would mean that these orbs would in fact have to be multiple moons, circling the planet.
Now, if that were to be the case, how is it that we only ever see 1 single moon in the
sky at night throughout the entire story; the one moon that we know from Enel’s cover
story, that he calls Vearth?
Now we know for a fact, that this moon did indeed harbour life at some point in the past,
and that the Birkas, the winged people of Skypea, originally came from there, as they
fled to earth for a lack of resources.
So, what about these other moons from the astronomical model on Ohara?
Well, what if in the past, instead of 1, there were actually 8 moons, each with its own intelligent
life form, culture and technology?
Due to some unknown event, these moons were abandoned and/or destroyed at some point in
the past, and its different people fled to earth to start a new life there.
Where do I get the number 8 from?
We’ll get to that in a second.
Now, as it so happens, we actually do know a variety of humanoid races inhabiting the
one piece world, that all have their own culture, history and traditions.
The Giants, the Fishmen, the Tontatta, the long limb tribes, the minks, the Sky people,
humans as well as a number of other potential races, such as the three eyed tribe and possibly
even a demon or devil race.
Each of these groups could have originally inhabited their very own world on each of
the moons.
And this concept is actually nothing new.
If you watched my video on Shanks, you will know that Oda draws a lot of inspiration from
nordic mythology.
And one of the most important elements of nordic mythology is yggdrasil, the world tree
that harbours a total of nine connected worlds.
The world in the centre is Midgard, the realm of men, and around it eight worlds inhabited
by other races.
These races also include dwarfs and giants, that as a matter of fact, we already know
to live in the One Piece world.
And especially the giants as well as their island Elbaf have CLEARLY been inspired by
nordic mythology.
This also includes a gigantuous tree, that is being hinted at in this scene here.
Could this be a reference to Yggdrasil and the 9 worlds?
I think it’s quite likely, and notably, one of these worlds also harbours a race of
demons.
Now, being forced to leave their own worlds behind, each of these races will have come
down to earth, the world of humans and the last inhabitable place left.
Here, the different people lived in constant conflict and war with each other born from
never-ending power struggles and deep-rooted prejudice.
One day, a charismatic and powerful leader enters the stage and starts gathering members
of all the different races under his flag.
This diverse and unprecedented group starts to grow in influence and popularity due to
its shared wisdom, friendship and equality.
At some point, it grows so large and influential that it establishes a kingdom that grows into
a place of peace and prosperity.
And the leader of this kingdom is a man known by the name of Joyboy.
Joy Boy’s ultimate goal is to unite all the different races and bring the endless
violence and waring amongst them to a close, end segregation and racism and create a united
world of freedom and justice, so arguably what the story of One Piece will in the end
be all about.
We do know that Joy Boy was starting to fulfil this plan as he promised the fishmen to bring
them up to the surface and give them equal rights.
However with the growing influence of the ancient kingdom and its ideals of equality
and freedman, the kingdoms of the humans started to feel threatened and planned to overthrow
Joy Boy. 20 of them banded together to declare war on the ancient kingdom, but initially
failed due to its immense shared wisdom, power and technology.
However, when the war threatened to be lost, they were unexpectedly offered help by the
king of the demon clan, which was despised and feared by all the other races.
He offered the kings to share the powers of his people with them, in order to turn the
tides against the ancient kingdom and make them the gods and new rulers of the entire
world.
All of this however under one condition, that he would become the one true king, ruling
form the shadows.
Blinded by power, 19 of the 20 kings took the deal and so the demon king bestowed upon
them the power of the devil fruits.
One of them however, the king of Alabasta, was wary of the devil and his power and secretly
decided to inform Joy boy about the coming threat.
Upon hearing about the new powers of their enemies and their inevitable defeat, joy boy
decided to do everything in his power to ensure that his vision would be made reality some
day.
The Kozuki clan, that were part of his kingdom, created the poneglyphs with instructions and
information about the true history of the world.
Meanwhile, using its advanced technology, the ancient kingdom created 3 powerful weapons
to oppose the power of the devil fruits.
The powers of Poseidon to command powerful sea monsters, inherited by the fishmen.
The power of Pluton, a mighty battle shit, capable of destroying entire islands, as well
as Uranos, a weapon of unknown power that might have enabled space travel.
And finally, some secret was hidden on an island, that would later become known as Laugh
Tale.
As Joy Boy had feared, the tides of the war quickly changed with the sudden appearance
of the devil fruit powers.
With their help, the kings artificially changed the geography of the entire world to ensure
their rule and position of power for centuries to come.
And so the ancient kingdom fell, and the world had to wait for the return of a new Joy Boy