Imu's inspiration theory
Hi, I just want to share a relation I found about the origins of Imu and our real life ancient mythology.
I was reading about the ancient semitic gods, and some of y'all may know the name of Baal, nowadays related to a pagan god for ancient israelites/semites. I found some similarities with Imu sama that may be interesting to y'all, so I'm gonna list them, and of course it would be great if some of you had more similarities to share.
\- To begin with, Baal was the most important god in its circle, directly compared to Zeus, king of all, just like Imu.
\- In the akkadian language, this god's name was "An. Im", An meaning god, and Im being his name and his powers/capabilities.
\- One of the most interesting things, his powers: Baal, or An Im, was the god of rain, thunder and storms, capable of making crops grow with his rains, but also heavily feared for his destructive storms and floodings. Just like Zeus, he had to kill the god of the sea to become the greatest god above all else. I relate this to Imu and the big flood we know happened in the world of one piece, or the destruction of Lulusia by some kind of lightnings coming from the sky, just like a storm.
\- To end with this, Baal or An Im is usually represented with horns, or as a bull, just like Imu's later design reveal, showing horns like a bull or demon (just as Baal, who is usually considered as a pagan god or demon).
These are the similarities that i found, and if someone has more info about this, it would be really cool to see more similarities and theorize about all this, as we all know Oda loves ancient history amd taking inspiraton from it!