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This might be long guys and my english is not perfect, so please, get over it and try to focus because these are very important informations, and my speculation is PERFECT!
ONE PIECE is TAO!(great name, works with oppositions with different blends in it), ONE PIECE is one piece of SEA, ONE PIECE is also ONE PEACE in the world, and the STORY OF OUR WORLD through centuries till the 1990 when the WALL(RED LINE) between EAST and WEST falls.ONE PIECE is a declaration of love to life and to selfaccomplishment through living your dreams. One piece is educating us to fight discrimination, because we have grown with it and we have the future of our world in our hands. We already got One Piece treasure the moment we bought our first Tankobon....I might cry now for understanding such an amazing LITERATURE MASTERPIECE.
Marine vs Pirates, Government vs Revolutionaries, Heavenly Dragons(tenryubito) vs Demons (D.),Rule vs Free Will, Chaos vs Supreme Order.
After someone posted the story of Momotaro it became clear IMO that D. stands for devils/demons/daoism and that Raftel is the Demon Island of Momotaro tale. Look at the similarities: Momo = Momotaro. The boy was sent from heaven to fight oni(BB) and demons in a distant island, and on his travel three talking animals joined him: a pheasant(Aokiji), a monkey (Luffy) and a dog (Akainu). Oda is foreshadowing the alliance that will beat BB in the final war in RAFTEL.
Notice also that ours D's characters are often referred as devils.
Can u see the opposition? DEVILS vs HEAVENS (Tenryubito)
This was the last clue that Oda might have given to us to possibly unreavel the future of One Piece, cause ONE PIECE is actually the fusion of THE BIBLE, HISTORY as a whole,THE MEETING OF EASTERN AND WEST CULTURES (DEVILS BEING THE OCCIDENTAL ARRIVING IN ASIA),TAOISM, MOMOTARO TAIL,THE HAN DINASTY (period 820 a.d. 700 a.d.) and JOURNEY TO THE WEST, who's protagonist is Sun Wukong, known also as the Monkey King. I want to make it even clearer unbreaking Sun Wukong's story readen by different point of views to understand One Piece:
"Birth and early life[edit]
Depiction of Sun Wukong from a printed edition of the novel
Depiction of the Forbidden Temple's Sun Wukong as depicted in a scene in a Beijing opera
Sun Wukong was born from a mythical stone formed from the primal forces of chaos, located on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit (hua guo shan). After joining a clan of monkeys, he earned their respect by discovering the Water Curtain Cave (shui lian dong) behind a large waterfall; the clan made it their new home. "
Mythical stone + Mountains of Flowers and Stone = Red Line, Spring Islands.
The Clan's home = Water Curtain Cave = so Raftel is covered by a huge DOME of WATER right at the center of the Red Line,exactly the opposite SHAPE and CONCEPT of the reverse mountain. So, if u think about it, Enies Lobby is an Island that got shot by Pluton, the god of the underworld/hell through the earth. I will say more, it's likely the previous BASE of the WG in the war vs the devils to "control"/"seat" on top of the world. Haevenly Dragons wins and maker their bas above the Red Line while Raftel gets sealed and its population decimated.
How to reach Raftel? Through 1 type of undestructable stone, PONEGLIPHS. (look at the reference to the sacred stone that gave birth to the monkey king…)
The second type of PONEGLIPH, the one that has the TRUE STORY (according to Robin), should be in Raftel, were Roger left it.
" The other monkeys honored him as their king, and he called himself Mei Hóuwáng (handsome monkey king). He soon realized that despite his power over the monkeys, he was still only mortal. Determined to find immortality, he traveled on a raft to civilized lands, where he became the disciple of a Taoist immortal, who bears resemblance and alludes to Subodhi. He was able to acquire human speech and manners through his travels.[1]
This passage is awesome, is likely one of the most important part of the history that will explain the Will of D. (Devils, Demons, Daoism).
Get ready:
_The MONKEY KING traveled on a RAFT (ref. travel from RAFTEL and not a mix of ROUGH TALE as everyone thought at the beginning.)….
_He traveled to CIVILIZED LANDS = SOON TO BECOME THE WG.
_Also, the contrapposition between CIVILIZED and MONKEYS. Great finesse by Oda cause it brings up 2 main points of One piece:
1)all the racials issues brought up in One Piece. Is it a case that Monkey D. Luffy is breaking all this "rules" while having a "Multiracial crew" (to quote Kuja's pirates)
2)The UNCIVILIZED MONKEYS were the FIRST PIRATES(unruled travellers of the sea), and their chief was the MONKEY KING, aka "THE PIRATE KING"
_Other great point that I wanted to bring now so I can finally close the case Will of D.(which refers as Demon, Devil, Daoism):
1)"Despite his power over the other monkeys, he realized he was still only mortal" SHABONDY ISLAND ARC as a repeat of something similar that happened in the past, u will understand why...
2)"He became disciple" = Monkey D. Luffy, after realizing that he wasn't as strong as he tought, became disciple of...
3)"a Taoist Immortal who refers to SUBODHY" = Silver Rayleigh!!! Subodhy sounds like SHABONDY ISLANDS, but what does it mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subodhy
- . One day, in a mood of sublime emptiness, Subhuti was resting underneath a tree when flowers began to fall about him. "We are praising you for your discourse on emptiness," the gods whispered to Subhuti. "But I have not spoken of emptiness," replied Subhuti. "You have not spoken of emptiness, we have not heard emptiness," responded the gods. "This is the true emptiness." The blossoms showered upon Subhuti as rain. (Rayleigh meets Roger, also references to spring islands, the voice of all things and the reason for Rayleigh to be the “DARK KING”)
- In Chinese literature[edit]
Subhūti appears as a character in the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, as the teacher of the Monkey King Sun Wukong. The story of Sun Wukong first meeting Subhūti was a play on the Zen story of Huineng meeting Hongren, as told in the Platform Sūtra of Zen Buddhism
Here things gets interesting:
From Wikipedia, refer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoist_immortal
Taoism is also referred as Daoism,For other uses, see Xian (disambiguation). Xian is the chinese translation of "enlightened person:
"spiritually immortal; transcendent; super-human; celestial being" (in Daoist/Taoist philosophy and cosmology)
"physically immortal; immortal person; immortalist; saint" (in Daoist religion and pantheon)
"alchemist; one who seeks the elixir of life; one who practices longevity techniques" or by extension "(alchemical, dietary, qigong) methods for attaining immortality" (in Chinese alchemy)
"wizard; magician; shaman" (in Chinese mythology)
"genie; elf, fairy; nymph" (in popular Chinese literature, ?? xian jing is "fairyland", Faerie)
"sage living high in the mountains; mountain-man; hermit; recluse" (folk etymology for the character ?)
"immortal (talent); accomplished person; celestial (beauty); marvelous; extraordinary" (metaphorical modifier)
Here the meanings in One Piece:
"spiritually immortal; transcendent; super-human; celestial being" (in Daoist/Taoist philosophy and cosmology)
_The first line, Daoist/Taoist phylosophy and cosmology define what the WILL OF D. is!!!!
"physically immortal; immortal person; immortalist; saint" (in Daoist religion and pantheon)
_Second line, defines a PANTHEON (House of gods/Raftel) of immortals. = The DEVIL TRIBE (like we have the longleg tribe,longarms tribe, giants, dwarf ecc…) or the strongest among them which should be represented by different families of Devils or possibly races. The families should be 8, and they refer to the 8 immortals. (Pa-hsien in Taoist mythology)
Ref. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/gods.html
“They were believed to live in grottos in Heaven” before the 1970s in English they were described as the 8 genies. So we have 8 DEVIL Lines.
_U can "see" MONKEY D. DRAGON under the boat and Admiral AOKIJI with his ride/bycicle/mule,Blackbeard sitting in front, the D.Flamingo Samurai Family, GOL D. Roger and his fan, Portgas D. and the peaches/DF..The Pirate empress behind, The Youth(Luffy,Dragon) on the right…last one is Uncle Saul/ Garp/Shanks...TOP left. THEY ARE THE NEW WAVE BRINGERS.
_MONKEY D. LUFFY = Line of the first Pirate King is Han Hsiang-tsuHan which represents youth. He was the grand nephew of Han Yu (MONKEY D.GARP) (768- 824 A.D.) who was a minister to Emperor Hsing-tung. He is reported to have accomplished all manner of remarkable feats including the production of extraordinary plants.He became an immortal by eating one of the peaches of immortality (DEVIL FRUIT anyone?WOULD RUBBER GET OLDER?) . He carries with him a basket of fruit or flowers.He was a disciple of Lu Tung-pin.
_DOQUIXOTE D. FLAMINGO = Kuo-chiu represents the nobility for he was connected with the Imperial Sung Dynasty. His brother (DOQUIXOTE .DOFLAMINGO) committed a crime for which he was ashamed and he retired and became a hermit who studied the Tao and learned the recipe for perfection. He holds in his hands the tablet that admits one to an audience with the emperor [notice that Flamingo in Spanish means Peacock.]One day Han Ching-li and Lu Tung-pin found him and asked him what he was doing. He replied that he was studying the Tao. "What is that and where is it?" they asked. He pointed first to the sky and then to his heart. Then they realized that he understood and they gave him the recipe for perfection. In this case are the DEVILS of One Piece to teach Haoushuku Haki to a normal human. The one that will reach the “STATUS” of “DARK KING”. Both Mihawk and Silvers Rayleigh have this status, and the next to get it is the beast ZORO-san. (MIHAWk and DOQUIXOTE’s father is one of the 5 sage stars, u know who…)
_MIHAWK D. FLAMINGO(called DRAGUL which means Son of Dragon and here it refers to his nobility but also to him becoming a “REVOLUTIONARY, FIRST MATE OF MONKEY D. DRAGON!”) = Chang Kuo-lao was once the head of the Imperial Academy but he retired to live as a hermit on Mt. Chung-t'iao in Shansi. He was summoned to court by the Empress Wu (684-705 A.D.) however, when he reached the Temple of the Jealous Woman he fell down dead. Shortly afterwards he came back to life. ISLE OF WOMEN//THE BIG MOUNTAIN BEHIND ecc…
_PORTGAS D. = Li T'ieh-kuai has an iron crutch and a black face. He represents the crippled and deformed. He tries to alleviate human suffering. He was taught to be an immortal by Hsi-wang-mu, Queen of the Immortals.One day, when his soul went to Mt. Hua he told his disciple to guard his body and cremate it after seven days if he had not returned. On the sixth day the disciple's mother fell ill and so leaving to take care of her he burnt the body a day early. Li T'ieh-kuai's soul on returning could find no body so it entered that of an old man who had just died. Only then did he discover that it was a cripple. At first he wanted to leave it but Lao Tzu persuaded him to stay and gave him a golden circlet and an iron crutch.He carries a gourd with him in which he keeps medicine to help people. Some say that it contains the elixir of life made from the peaches of immortality that grow in Hsi-wang-mu's garden.(FULL OF REFERENCES TO ROGUE, ACE that inherited her will, the mera mera fruit and maybe the next holder of hit that will carry this Will…
_GOL D. = is Li T'ieh-kuai,has an iron crutch and a black face. He represents the crippled and deformed. He tries to alleviate human suffering. He was taught to be an immortal by Hsi-wang-mu, Queen of the Immortals. One day, when his soul went to Mt. Hua he told his disciple to guard his body and cremate it after seven days if he had not returned. On the sixth day the disciple's mother fell ill and so leaving to take care of her he burnt the body a day early. Li T'ieh-kuai's soul on returning could find no body so it entered that of an old man who had just died. Only then did he discover that it was a cripple. At first he wanted to leave it but Lao Tzu persuaded him to stay and gave him a GOLDEN CIRCLET and an iron crutch. He carries a gourd with him in which he keeps medicine to help people. Some say that it contains the elixir of life made from the peaches of immortality (DEVIL FRUITS) that grow in Hsi-wang-mu's garden. (Ref. to DF, ROGER,ACE,ROGUE)
_BOA D. HANCOCK = Ho Hsien-ku is represented holding a lotus blossom (a symbol of purity) and a peach. The legend is that she lived in the time of the Empress Wu (684-705 A.D.) in the Yun-mu (Cloud Mother) Mountains-One night she had a dream that she should grind up a stone called Yun-mu and eat it. She did and vowed chastity at the same time. She then floated from mountain peak to peak gathering fruits which she gave to her mother (she having no need to eat). The Empress heard of her and summoned her to the court but on the way she disappeared. In this way she became an immortal. She is a patron deity of women.
_HAGWAR D. = The youngest of the Eight Immortals, Royal Uncle Cao or Cao Guojiu (pinyin: cáo guó jiù; Wade–Giles: Ts'ao Kuo-ch'iu) is named one of the following:Cao Yi (曹佾 cáo yì) (courtesy name Gongbo (公伯 gōng bó))Cao Jing (曹景 cáo jǐng)Cao Jingxiu (曹景休 cáo jǐng xiū)Cao You (曹友 cáo yǒu).He was said to be the uncle of the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, being the younger brother of Empress Dowager Cao (曹太后 cáo tàihòu).In historic records, there were several Emperor-consorts Caos in the Song Empire, but only one became empress: Cishengguangxian Empress (慈聖光獻皇后 cí shèng guāng xiàn huáng hoù) (1015–1079), the wife of the fourth Song emperor, Rénzōng (仁宗), none of whose children became an emperor.However, this does not render the historical existence of the "Royal Uncle Cao" impossible as in pre-modern China, the address "uncle" also meant "brother-in-law". Sometimes specified as "Wife-uncle" (妻舅 qī jiù) or as a respect, "Little Uncle" (舅子 jiù zǐ). Císhèngguāngxiàn Empress did have a younger brother named Cao Yi in historical record. But the given name of Royal Uncle Cao being Yi as well could be a post hoc.Cao Guojiu's younger brother Cao Jingzhi (曹景植 cáo jǐng zhí) was a bully, but no one dared to prosecute him because of his powerful connections, not even after he killed a person. Royal Uncle Cao was so overwhelmed by sadness and shame on his brother that he resigned his office and left home.
(Obviously Saul, but Dragon has his share in this part and maybe this will help uncovering the story of Luffy’s mother!)
_MARSHALL D,= Lu Tung-pin (755 - 805 A.D.) was a scholar, doctor and official. He became a Taoist after a long and distinguished life as an official which ended in disgrace. He was very popular in his life and after his death became venerated as the King of Medicine. He represents the wealthy and literacy.
(Thanks to DressRosa e Fishman Island we know that we can have hybrids)
It also talks about a Physically Immortal person/ Saint which is interesting. Someone yet to be introduced or even Raileygh.
From the third line comes ALL the D./WILL in One Piece world in a certain way of speakin, u heard it right! The FIRST'S DEVIL WILL is transmitted by reincarnation to either a descendant of the Devils or a normal human, and it's manifested through HAKOUSHOUKU HAKI!!! THE KING'S DISPOSITION!!!THE POWER OF IMMORTALITY THAT LET U TRANSMIT YOUR WILL AND SPIRIT THROUGH REINCARNATION.
Everyone has haki…obviously,because everyone has a spirit; but only "1 in a million have the haoushouku" (guess One Piece population RATIO to the DEVIL TRIBE? in the past, and u get the number of Haoushouku's user's in the present which is the DEVIL'S PIRATE CREW WILL + DEVILS family members that escaped the extermination).
Why is it called the KING'S DISPOSITION, because is the WILL/SPIRIT OF A DEVIL/DEMON, the "strongest creatures" in the world....another hint to KAIDOU and the LION DF fruit and huber Haki ex.) [closed the Smile and DF issue here as well the controversie with Whitebeard being the strongest] .
The strongest Devil is just below GOD=Tenryubito + WG=Heavens=Mariejoa=Heavenly Dragons (stay tuned on this), people who lives above normal people, on the redline…..
[NOTICE: MARIE JOA is a fusion of MARIE(French) and LLORA (to cry in Spanish) so is literally a ref. to miracles, to a “Virgin Marie crying Blood”…for what reason? Is she crying the extermination.
I'm also saying in the present cause in the past they were sterminated by the WG and not many could have reached the stage of "spiritual immortality".
That's why Raleygh tells Robin that he knows the whole story but his crew couldn't do anything....because the WG destroyed a very dangerous civilization that still poses problems to the civilized world. So now we can understand Rayleigh's statement to Robin which hints to the classical question: would u kill Hitler as a child if u new he would become a monster?
Also notice how the KING'S HAKI/SPIRIT dominated and ruled all the inferior creatures. (HAKI FAINTING EFFECT EXPLAINED AND WHY SOME PEOPLE DON'T HAVE IT).
Figurative examples :
_LION vs SHEEP situation (where the sheep flees or die by panic)
_ LION vs () DOG(AKAINU) (Just the lion PRESENCE/SPIRIT/HAKI is not enough to make them faint but actually they might even damage or kill the lion if he isn't careful...see Luffy/BB/Garp/Ace when they fall asleep like "Lions"....)......(Lion Kings are the strongest and the laziest, the angriest and the ones to protect their crew from dangers they can't face by themselves...)
_LION vs TIGER situation (The Lion "Kaidou" and the Tiger "Zoro"), because the final villain in an all out war that will be the final arc is going to be BB(ONI/OGRE)+KAIDOU(lion)+DOFLAMINGO(bird) + BIG MOM(Black Turtle) (already seen a TURTLE/LION COMMANDER ref to a secret alliance throught SMILES with Kaidou) vs MOMOTARO's animals: DOG (Akainu...changed by Luffy and Dragon) + MONKEY (Luffy) + PHEASANT (Aokiji).
Is likely that SHANKS, KIZARU, and MIHAWK will die by the hands of the first 3 as follow:
_BB (OGRE/ONI) kills SHANKS (Red Phoenix) for Luffy to have revenge.
_KAIDOU(Lion) kills KIZARU (Yellow Monkey).
_MIHAWK (Hawk) defeats DOFLAMINGO (Peacock) but gets killed by Shiliu.
With this scenario Zoro has his shot at the top without breaking the balance of friendship and alliances and proving himself against either Kaidou's swordman or Big Mom's.
Sanji will beat the 3rd boss which is DD...Man among man vs Man among Girls ( you didn't notice, didn't you?)
alchemist; one who seeks the elixir of life; one who practices longevity techniques" or by extension "(alchemical, dietary, qigong) methods for attaining immortality" (in Chinese alchemy)
- ALCHEMIST D. = BLACKBEARD, the one with a different body that could ate 2 devil fruits. The carrier of the DEVIL ALCHIMIST WILL. + DD?(Smiles?)
"wizard; magician; shaman" (in Chinese mythology)
- MAGICIAN WILL of D. = Portgas D. Ace… ( We wont forget him making fire circles for Buggy's subordinate lion) or the desire to be recognized by others or his particular ability...he could even make a huge hat for Oz's junior.When he went to Drum the snow stopped.) + SHANKS ( his crew looks like a Big Circus always moving and having tricks and parties) + DD?(Trickster)
"genie; elf, fairy; nymph" (in popular Chinese literature, ?? xian jing is "fairyland", Faerie)
- FAIRY WILL OF D.= Portgas D. Rogue (Dressrosa + Fairies + Mera Mera fruit in the current arc can't stray me to be sure about this one) + DOQUIXOTE DOFLAMINGO (Meanie Genie)
"sage living high in the mountains; mountain-man; hermit; recluse"
- SAGE MOUNTAIN-MAN WILL OF D. = Edward Newgate (Mountains represents stability, something unmovable, something that stands firm without moving an inch….see how he died....) + Kaidou(ex marine) + Monkey D. Garp (stands firm whithout saving Ace)
"immortal (talent); accomplished person; celestial (beauty); marvelous; extraordinary"
- GOL D ROGER, MONKEY D. DRAGON, MONKEY D. LUFFY, BOA HANCOCK.
Xian involving methods such as alchemy, breath meditation, and T'ai chi ch'uan, and eventually to legendary and figurative "immortality". Luffy moves cough cough!
The xian archetype is described by Victor H. Mair.
They are immune to heat and cold, untouched by the elements, and can fly, mounting upward with a fluttering motion. They dwell apart from the chaotic world of man, subsist on air and dew, are not anxious like ordinary people, and have the smooth skin and innocent faces of children. The transcendents live an effortless existence that is best described as spontaneous. They recall the ancient Indian ascetics and holy men known as ??i who possessed similar traits.1994:376
Again, we are talking about the common traits that the DEVIL TRIBE shares. The references we can make to OP are too easy.
Again:
The earliest representations of Chinese immortals, dating from the Han Dynasty, portray them flying with feathery wings (the word yuren ?? "feathered person" later meant "Daoist") or riding dragons.
Here a ref. To Momo's DF and his alliance with Luffy.
One last point is this: The Revolutionaries are the representation of the arrival of Christians in Asia and their impact that it had to the World Order.(DRAGON:sacrifice? , KUMA: Bible, MIHAWK: Cross)