About the more than 1000 published chapters of ONE PIECE, Eiichiro Oda has shown himself to be a great lover of folklore tales, legends and the various mythologies that arose centuries if not millennia ago. Thanks to some recent events, a resemblance between two Egyptian gods, Luffy and Blackbeard, has emerged.
Before the epic conclusion, seeing one will be inevitable direct confrontation between Monkey D. Luffy and Marshall D. Teach, both Emperors and eager to possess the coveted ONE PIECE. However, this basic rivalry that was established between the two seems to have many features in common with that which was characterized according to the ancient Egyptians the rivalry between the god Ra and the god Apopi.
The resemblance between Luffy and the god Ra, the sun god, is apparent almost immediately given the latent powers of the Gom Gom fruit awakened during the final battle against Kaido. In fact, it was discovered that the devil’s fruit ingested by Luffy was actually a mythological Zoo Zoo, exactly the model of the god Nika or the sun god in the ONE PIECE series.
On the other hand, Blackbeard would correspond to Apopi, deity of darkness and chaos, Ra’s rival who tries to kill every day at sunset According to Egyptian tales, neither of them ever managed to completely overpower the other, hence the adjective eternal for describing their rivalry. Apopi was represented as a serpent equipped with an incredible cunning and capable of deceiving even the smartest of mentwo “qualities” that Blackbeard seems to have inherited perfectly.
It was also said with every movement of Apopi somewhere the earth trembled, this could be another meeting point between the Divinity and Teach, who we recall was also in possession of the abilities of the Gura-Gura fruit stolen from the late Emperor Whitebeard. Let us know what you think of this unique parallelism between ONE PIECE and Egyptian mythology in the comments.
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