The MYSTERY of The Cursed Statue in Breath of The Wild (Zelda Theory)
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- What is the origin of this 'Cursed Statue'?
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Outro - 11:07
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What do you think the origin of this 'Cursed Statue' is?
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Idk
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I got Hyrule warriors age of calamity as Christmas present
Imagine dedicating your life to studying ancient technology and getting stumped by a mystery for possibly years then a teenager wearing nothing but boxers solves it in a matter of hours.
lol
It took me half my playthrough-
I had to look it up leave me alone 😭
Then to add insult to injury, said teenager decides to use your bed
@@youtubesresidentfbiagent8735 me too but only because I couldn’t find the statue 😂 the actual riddle when you see it’s eyes glowing is pretty obvious.
Link: *sees a vase painted magenta, black and pink*
Link: *heavy breathing* GANON *Destroys vase*
Hahaha
This is hilarious, and this comment is underrated
He's always wondering what Ganon is up to.
@@caucasoidape8838 Is that a cdi reference?
Owner of the vase:
:0
:( i liked that vase
Just a thought. Much of the malice and corruption that covers Hyrule is dispelled literally by shooting an eye. From a malice corrupted dragon to the blotches of malice at Hyrule castle, and even Gannon himself. Perhaps this riddle and test were designed specifically as a hint for the next hero on how to deal with the malice, or at least a reference?
Scary to think that those statues may be to honor the children who fell during the calamity. And scaryer to know that they are related to korok puzzles as we learned in botw that kids could see koroks while the average hylian can't. It gets me to think what else kids could see that we dont. Or were those fallen children immortalized as the children of the forest... I'm going a bit to far
Yeah lol It’s fun tho
Yeah it's a little deep
And animals too, like in TP?
But its not a bad thougt. Ot could at least explain why koroks can hide in these statues. It doesnt awnser the question of how rhey got maronus korok seeds and how they are hiding in any of the other puzzles. And if they are the children of 100 years ago, why where there koroks in WW? Does the goddess reincarnate children as koroks, to give them a second chance? If yes, what is with maronus? Is he an adult? Or just a very large child? Or he maybe even belongs to the goddess in some other way, like a smaller brother or a creature made to look over the othere koroks.
That WOULD help explain why there are SO MANY koroks in BotW. It wouldn't explain every korok, but it could explain the offering puzzles. Or the souls tied to the little statues are being watched over by the koroks & when they finally move on the koroks reveal themselves.
What if the statue's eyes only glow in the presence of the hero? That would explain why our good "doctor" couldn't figure it out
Didn't he always go back to his cabin before 9 PM?
I think he never stayed after nightfall
Maaaybe but Calip is ALWAYS home by 9pm so her never sees it!
@@anotterwithaphone3077 I like his smartass line to you, about why he doesn't stay out at night. lol
@@HyruleGamer Calip is a wimp, and an idiot!
In a land of magic, time of day is a variable that must be accounted for. A real "doctor" (not medical doctor) would either work with a nocternal assasstiant, or learn how to have a flexable sleep schedule.
Don't they stop glowing if you get too close, too?
omggg i feel so bad for stealing all the apples from the statues now :,(
Rip
Uhhh so they aren’t free apple shrines? Oops....
Same
That what I always did never knew it was a shrine
Korok puzzle
"It's tied to the Sheikah, it *can't* be evil."
Sir, sir, are we forgetting the Shadow Temple?
I wish more people would dive into Japanese mythology to explain details like these, I get the feeling it holds far more answers.
Yeah :)
"So what technology did you use to test the hero?"
"Idk man, I just put purple LEDs in the eyes and called it a day."
I love how it’s been years since this game was released, but there’s so many mysteries and stuff to cover in this game, these theories still go on
YES!
Honestly the number of mysteries these game contain is part of what makes them so great, I wouldn't be surprised if there are still things waiting for theorists like Hyrule Gamer and others to notice in OoT and MM, let alone the even older games people forget about half the time when dealing with theories and lore around the series.
THE GAME LIVES ON! HUZZAH
I always assumed that kalip just couldn’t see the light in the statue the same way no one else can talk to the goddess statues or activate the shrines
Maybe?
I've confused this statue with the one in Hateno village during my first playthrough.
Wasted so many arrows shooting at the other statue's eyes.
Same 😭🖐
Theory, Dr. Calip knew, but what if it was handed down and his family was meant to lead the hero in that direction, even though he didn't know who that hero was. He put up this front of being a Dr/researcher to explain to passers by why he was there, and to not think anything about it. Or something like that.
Alt: What if he had tried but it didn't work? What if it knows who the hero is? So it's not that he didn't guess but that it just wouldn't work for Calip?
That's a genuinly amazing theory! It would explain *how that extremely easy puzzle WAS SO FRICKING OBVIOUS YET DR. CALIP WAS SUCH AN IDIOT AND COULDNT FIGURE OUT THE EASIEST SHRINE QUEST IN EXISTANCE*
i didn't even know there was a 'dr calip' in the game... 4 years and i still discover new stuff.... truly an amazing artwork
Nice haha
It’s over Calamity Ganakin, I have the high ground.
Hahahaha
*Ganon roars something vaguely similar to "you underestimate my power!"*
@@LilithQuigley don’t try it
Me whenever I use Revali’s Gale
That joke worked better with the Moldugas 😂. Calamity Ganon only lost because of karma, the very technology he manipulated to turn on Hyrule was used on him too. Good riddance 👍
I haven’t even watched it yet, but I’m so happy there’s a video on this at last woot woot
Happy to hear!
Fr
I always thought it was connected or just using the same type of magic as the grave in the skyloft graveyard. In Skyward Sword, a grave glows purple at night and you must hit it to open the door to Batreaux's house, and in botw, a grave glows purple at night and you must shoot it to reveal a shrine. Pretty similar.
That's what makes me think the cooler-toned purple of those isn't necessarily evil, but is more representative of a natural force that most folks might consider unsavory or it might otherwise make them uncomfortable, and the more vivid tones we see amongst the actively unsavory may be considered evil because of the malicious intent behind it. The chests in the enemy camps themselves aren't evil, they're boxes with some sort of magical lock, and the converting of that lock from one natural force to another allows us to access its contents. Off-topic: If you clear an enemy camp, and the lock on the chest turns yellow, would a monster be able to open it? Come to think of it, I haven't tried opening one of those without clearing the enemies, so I don't know if I'd be able to...
This just in Calamity Ganon is anakin, and he killed the younglings..
Lol
💀
This is not really related to the content of the video
but at 4:27, I got an ad when Adam said "Aaaaa" and it got cut off perfectly. Thought it was hilarious xD
Oh damn lol
SAME!
Adam?
@@andpeggy6048 AKA Hyrule Gamer
I've spent over 300 hours in Botw and I didn't even know about these statues in this area
Freaking same I’m glad someone else said it
Oh damn lol
I know about them, and I never found them despite getting the game in 2017.
I am actually re starting the game and on my way to Rito village I accidentally started riding on a deer and I never knew i could do that and I got this game so long ago and have spent so much time on it that’s so crazy
@@lavender_juice8445 same with me, i thought i was the only one!
It would be really cool if that was vaati’s grave, with his tiny original appearance, purple themes, sealing, and sheikah connection.
Oooh interesting
Uhm.....who is vaati??? In not super savvy with zelda lore
@@zackpettypool1247 he’s from the minish cap, an antagonist that isn’t really relevant, just has lots of purple themes and gets revived a lot
Its also strange how the godess hilia statue in kakariko village is wearing the exact same bib type thing around her neck as the japanese statues...
*Music starts playing*
*the statue's eyes begin to glow*
"shot on iPhone 6"
Huuuuh lol
The Sheikah have been known to be associated with graveyards, shadow(y) magic, and things of a higher spiritual nature in general. In BoTW, they were so much more visible than 'normal' with a steampunk-like backstory that I sort-of forgot that. They seemed to take on a more 'normal' air. Tyvm for the reminder. :-) I was not only not surprised, but genuinely pleased to find a Sheikah shrine in a graveyard; the purpose of the shrine and the nature of its occupant combined with the nature of its location makes me think that the test isn't only a psychological one, but also a spiritual one. I'm going to end this here, because I have nothing else to continue it with without going off on a Sheikah-obsessed tangent that would ultimately boil down to me whining about how the monsters in BoTW have more interesting personality quirks as individuals than the Sheikah, and also me mourning the almost-complete lack of cultural difference from what was once the most mysterious race of Hyrule that is so clearly displayed not only in their biological features that set them apart from the Hylians, but also in their clothing and architecture. Oops, went on a mini-tangent anyways lol.
I hate them Pademe!
In response to that Star Wars reference
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Huh...
Merry Christmas mother of the discord family
Listening to this in the car on my way home from work and I straight up lost my shit at the anakin quote 😂😂
Hahaha nice!
Edge lord Anakin
If it was all a test from the sheikah, how is this statue made for the shrine if these are build for victims of the calamity? The sheikah were already gone...
The cursed statue could have just been holding back the shrine.
This makes me wonder it was an isolated attempt to impede the Hero and the glowing eyes (at that specific time) could be related to how undead only come out at night.
Maybe.🤔
Or what if the cursed statue is actually the death of the Evil statue in hateno village?
Merry Christmas
Merry Xmas!
Merry Christmas hyrule gamer I've always wanted to see one of the zelda youtubers I watch cover this topic
Well here it is!!
@@HyruleGamer hello please make one about the koroks, why do they exist? Who is the great deku tree? Why can they hide in random places? Why do they give you there poop
I've wanted this video for so long!
Oh nice, well here it is!
Yes! Ever since I watched the last video where you covered the cursed statue, I've been wanting to see a video that talks about it in depth. Also, I feel honored that you used the evidence from my comment in the previous video about the statue. Thanks!
Thanks!
With the statues being reminiscent of the little tombstone type deals for children (should that actually be the case) it does make sense that leaving apples and other fruit for the ones that you can see the offering plate would trigger a korok. After all koroks are children too. To be more precise they are children of the forest; the lost woods. I may be on to something here, but I'm not entirely sure. What do you guys think?
Dude studying the Cursed Statue: (Looses his title) "I'm losing it! I'm losing it!!!"
Hyrule Gamer: (mocking tone) OH, like you ever *Had* it!!!" 😁
Haha
He should have held on tighter to it.
*losing
Not loosing, unless you're talking about a badly tied rope or loose belt lol
@@PolarBear-rc4ks Oh, right, my bad! Just fixed it, thanks! 👍
I saw a comment on a different video that was talking about stange areas in botw. It was from a diy channel called macaroon i believe. She pointed out that the statutes could be related to the death of the kokiri in the fallen timeline and the statue with the purple eyes could represent link as the one who didn't belong.
I always figured it as a final grave site for soldiers who lost their lives at fort Hateno, or for loved ones whose bodies were able to make it to fort hateno but whose lives never made it any farther. Since its clearly a graveyard and its so close to one of the most significant battlefields in Hyrule. Perhaps the single cursed statue was there, and people decided to add more graves, not realizing the purpose of the statue itself. It doesn't solve the glowing eyes, but it may just simply be a 'lock' and once its struck with an arrow it unlocks and destroys itself.
4:50 there is also a pillar west of the Shee Vanath Shrine, and south of Hila Rao Shrine, its an offering statue that has no others. On it there is a silent shroom and one nearby on the entrance to the cave.
There's one possible explanation-
*Sooga*
Mmmmmmmmm
I was thinking Astor
@@shadowdecidueye
My first thought was Astor as well, *however,* we KNOW he doesn't have a body to be buried.
It was absorbed into Harbinger Ganon//Terrako as the piece to return to "humanoid" form.
And the little outlet/graveyard area that these statues are in are fairly close to Hyrule Field (about where Sooga gave his life to defend Kohga from Astor turning on the Yiga Clan.)
@@gabriellockwood2780 I meant botw Astor, not AoC Astor
@@gabriellockwood2780 Astor might not have been absorbed in this timeline. Terrakko split the timeline (twice)
I just love how some self proclaimed doctor spends his life trying to figure out what a puzzling riddle means and then some kid shows up, talks to him for a day or two (ingame time) and solves it. I mean sure Link is really the player, sure Link is pretty much a self made deity of puzzle solving, but still! This guy spends his life trying to figure this out so he can become a famous researcher and then a kid solves it in a day, right after reading his book!
I've wanted to see this covered for a while
Well here it is!
Maybe Calip doesn't stay out late because skeletons tend to climb out of the ground when it gets dark and attack people? He doesn't strike me as the warrior type. On another thought maybe that statue has sat there for millennia but its eyes only glow because of the rise of Calamity Ganon and the spread of malice - reacting to Ganon's presence or ambient malice? Maybe it is programmed to only turn on at night when it detects the Sheikah Slate nearby?
I'm really just spitballing some ideas of how the Sheikah might have designed their shrines to both last for so long and to resist tampering by people who aren't the hero they're trying to communicate with. It would be funny if Link descended into a shrine only to find the power went out and the monk is desperately trying to fiddle with the breakers before the hero shows up.
Maybe the curse is actually to find the clue so puzzling, which keeps Calib confused, but it doesn't work on someone who has already effectively been buried too.
That symbol carved into the pillar looks a LOT like the winged deaths heads used in real-life graveyards (most notably during the 16th and 17th centuries)
I confused this statue with the Horned Statue on my first playthrough of BotW.
I ended up searching about how to solve the riddle online since I was hitting the wrong statue.
"Ganon killed the mall." Or whatever you said.
Huh lol
i killed them
i killed them all
and not just the men
but the women, and the children too
theyre like animals
so i slaughtered them like animals
i hate them
Actually if you look at that symbol closely it looks more like a key than a coffin… And the purple represents something that is locked
Me watching this even though I haven’t even gotten to this part of the game: Hmm interesting
Nice lol
Wait cursed statue?
I thought you meant the horned statue not so far away
Jeez I really overlooked Hateno
Decided to check this area out after watching this. Stood before the graveyard as the clock approached 9pm. Then it happened.
I was like, ‘Oh that ain’t right...’
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So your saying the sheika decided to use a unborn child statue as part of a shrine test by purposly puting dark magic in it to test the hero?
That's pretty dark.
"Covered everything in an almost 4 year old game"
...
*Takes a peak at the "Small details you missed in skyrim series"* Uh huh...sure buddy
HA
It's called elder scrolls.
Skyrim Is an elderscroll game.
0:59 Ngl u got my hopes up for a second there😔
LOL
I think it is a way for a shieka shrine that had to be activated by the statue being pure, or detecting if someone was pure at heart, like the ability of seeing the dragons. I think the reason that the eyes were purple is that it did get possessed by ganon, because it's shieka technology like the guardians.
we all saw, Hyrule Gamer dropping the shade on dr. Calip
LOL
Love the cursed statue!! Keep doing what you're doing!!!!
Thanks a lot!
I always thought that the Sheikah trapped a demon or other evil inside the statue similar to how the goddess trapped the evil statue in Hateno village. It's life force prevents the shrine from appearing (Like the doors in skyward sword)
It also kinda reminds me of the puzzle at the beginning of the shadow temple with only one of the skulls being real and will open the way forward
I watched the video halfway through and I thought of this: Astor. Yeah, he had almost no relation to the ancient Sheikah or shrines or anything really but he was evil and served Directly under Ganon, which could explain the evil eyes, and he did have a Ancient Sheikah orb, connecting him to Sheikah Technology. And he wasn't in a respected/ remembered graveyard because he was evil. And when link shoots at Astor's statue, he could disrespect him one last time, which could represent link beating evil........yeah, it's a bit out there
I think an evil spirit dwells within the statue
Maybe the cursed statue is possessed by The Spirits of those soldiers who fell at the battle of Fort Hateno.Spoopy.
Fun fact: you get sickle weapon in this area an cutting grass with a sickle gives you rice for cooking.
An swords don't work in the same area of the game.
Only Sickles.
Very cool.
Isn’t that how they are often harvested in rural areas?
When somebody has purp eyes and link is there
It’s funny since that Star Wars clip in the background I’m watching empire strikes back while I’m watching this
Nice haha
Pokemon: Gotta catch em all
Ganon: Gotta kill em all
The purple eyes remind me of the Shadow Medallion and Temple from ocarina of time, which are also linked to the sheikah
Those pillars aren't quite as much of a lead as you're letting on, unfortunately. They're not unique to the graveyard, you can find them out in the field in front of the gates, too.
That is one thing i love about Breath of the wild, very little is actually explained and the only answers you really get are ones you have to find for yourself
For Christmas, Calip's present is: revocation of his self-given title by the entirety of the Zelda fandom. Happy Holidays!
Lol
The purple is also the color of shadow from OoT. Impa and shadow temple, connected to the Sheikah... Just a thought
4:15 it actually took me until I almost finished the game to figure out that puzzle 😅
If we say the statues were built to honour the dead children of the Calamity, the one loophole is how the wall to the graveyard has been blown down, implying a Guardian must have destroyed it. This means that the statues were likely of dead children BEFORE the Calamity. Also these were probably here 10,000 years ago as the Sheikah had to have disguised the one fake statue they built. This is really sad as it means there could have been more statues before the Calamity that the Guardians would have destroyed, making them lost to history forever.
The idea that the "cursed statue puzzle" is merely a psychological test is intriguing. There may still be a bit more to it than that since the "test" could also be an allusion to the origin of how some of the Sheikah turned away from the Goddess Hylia, and how they decided to hinder the destiny of the Hero by causing problems and by following Calamity Ganon. Or, it could be an allusion to Usurper King Zant (from LoZ:TP), and how Midna mentions that no one trusted Zant because of the "evil" they saw in his eyes!
Here is a thought for a different perspective, this isn't the first time we have seen a Shieka based shrine in a grave yard. In OoT not only was the Shadow Temple set in a graveyard but also it's seal was purple, and that temple focused on two major aspects, cruelty and death. Now in BotW the purples seals might be connected with Gannon but also part of the Shieka follow Gannon as the Yigga, so it might have nothing to do with "perceiving evil" but instead be a marker of much older aspects of the Shieka.
You're right, the riddle was soooo simple. However, this is a great metaphor for how people live in this world, including scientists. The people in Hyrule are so clueless as Link weaves between "reality" and "fantasy". It is clear to me that the developers of this game have studied the occult. This game gets so weirdly deep, I love it.
that's dark right there....never realized that the korok ''statues' was a reference to those real-life statues...
I loved the Star Wars refrence, tho! :)
_ya know I was just thinking, there's probably so many dead babies in Hyrule_
“It’s so simple” I spent like 20 minutes running around there don’t call it simple
I stumbled upon a similar statue in the South Gerudo Mountain Range(or at least somewhere snowy) in TotK. Got a Korok Seed putting a roof over its head.
To help strengthen your theory that it's a psychological test on the hero, on my first play through, I solved this shrine quest without ever talking to Dr. Calip. In fact, I didn't even know that he was a character until my second play through. I just saw the statue with the glowing eyes and thought "A-HA! That must be important!" and shot it with an arrow. (Granted, I was looking for a nearby Korok seed, but that's neither here nor there.)
But the statues predate the calamity, you see some in a memory. I think the statues are probably ancestor worship
I noted the resemblance to Jizo statues when I first saw them, it's incredible the cultural resemblance in the Zelda series.
Oh cool!
I commented on this statue years ago! I forget if it was on this channel. Man. Hateno village. So pretty. Then down that beautiful pathway. ....darkness.
Edit. Nvm different statue lol
There is so many details in botw, like the cursed statue you talked about in this video. Its really interesting to think about the mysteries in the land of hyrule. Merry christmas!
The cursed statue isn’t a simple puzzle I spent five hours trying to figure out the puzzle
Lol
I automatically assumed it had something to do with the heart/stamina swapping statue.
I always thought "the cursed statue" was the horned statue in hateno village
Now I'm just glad that I've never taken any of the offerings in front of the statues after solving the korok puzzles.
Those little statues are most likely based on Japanese Jizo statues. They are commonly used to grieve miscarried or aborted babies, essentially a way of paying respect to souls that didn't get the chance to be born. Jizo statues are often honoured with hats, scarves, toys or snacks which help the children stay comfortable on their way to the afterlife. The little dishes with apples or eggs in front of them seem to strengthen this connection. This gives the game a creepier dimension since these little statues show up all over Hyrule but are basically constant reminders of death. A random theory off the top of my head would be that the cluster of statues is a graveyard for the Kokiri from OOT, who are notably children that never grow up. The evil one might actually be Link who was the lone outsider that unintentionally led to their demise with his actions (downfall timeline). The statue puzzles are also often linked with Koroks, which indicate some connection with the Kokiri/Deku Tree. (this was copied and pasted credit to the originial person who wrote this: Maqaroon)
Who or what is oot? Im not super savvy with zelda lore but ever since the release of breath of the wild the mysteries within the lote have peaked my interests
@@zackpettypool1247 OOT stands for Ocarina Of Time, its another Legend Of Zelda game.
I think it is impossible that the statues were created 100 years ago to honor the dead of the calamity. In fact, the shrines were created 10,000 years ago and these statues are connected to the shrine. Perhaps the motivation of the construction of the statues is the same as that of the magnet of 100 years ago, perhaps before 10,000 years ago something could have happened that led to the construction of the statues. Maybe because of the Zonai tribe
Thank you soooooo much for talking about this!
Alright this was like the 5th video of yours I watched today. Great content, got a new sub. I love theories, I love Zelda. Perfect place for that.
That's DOCTOR Calip to you
This is the only video that I’ve seen where there is mention of these damn deity statues. No one ever question them or their appearance or why they only showed up in BotW, but I always wondered about them.
I thought the shrines popped out of the ground around the same time Link woke up. There's a Hylian stuck at the top of one of the towers because it erupted while he was walking nearby. How can he dedicate years to researching something that didn't exist until last week?
From what I remember the towers emerged out of the ground, but the shrines began to light up. Near one of the first stables I encountered I recall a character mentioning how they seem to be everywhere and seem to have been there forever.
I can’t believe I had forgotten this!! I was so confused when I first saw it in the game.
Awesome video! Thank you!
7:38
Good one
Thanks :)
Yeah that would realllyyyy mess with me psychologically if i had to destroy a statue honoring a dead child 😰
finally someone has covered this! I've been wondering about that little statue field for ages!
Yeah, would have been an easy shrine if I ended up reading the book or talking to the Dr. before coming across it. I just randomly landed in the graveyard at night while traveling and saw the eyes. The only other place I've ever seen purple eyes was on the chests so I proceeded in hunting down every living creature in the area and defeating it until morning came around and the Dr. showed up (- _ -)