The Slumbering Giant - #486
Regigigas, the Colossal Pokemon.
The Master of the Hoenn Legendary Titans; Regirock, Regice, and Registeel.
Regigigas is a Normal-type, with immense physical strength.
It is said that he created the three Hoenn titans in his own image from a special ice mountain, rocks, and magma; and that it’s immense strength allowed it to tow the continents with ropes.
He is a beautiful, and amazing Pokemon and God to look to for strength.
What would one find in Regigigas, if one were to look to him for guidance and strength?
You would find the ability to exercise restraint, in spite of the great power you may have inside. The ability to let others be, and let the world turn, even though inside, you may feel the need and the strength to bend the world to your will.
You would find the strength to endure. To endure as the world changes around you, as hard as that may be. To endure hardship and pain, as you try to move through your own life and follow your path. To endure, so that you may move forward through the world, even if all you want to do is sleep.
You would find that even the strongest beings can be slow to get moving. Slow Start cuts his strength in half, but when he’s warmed up, not even mountains can stand in the way of Regigigas.
Working with Regigigas, one can come to see how being slow to start does not mean one is lesser or incapable. On the contrary, a speeding train is hard to stop once it gets going.
Once one is ready, and you find your footing, then you will be better able to accomplish what lies ahead of you. You don’t have to be the fastest, you can just hit the hardest instead.
How can you incorporate what Regigigas teaches into your life?
When the world seems bleak and senseless, and you feel you have no control, instead of lashing out and trying to bend it to your will and strength, try to exercise restraint. You are great, and you are powerful, but what makes you greater is calm and understanding. Stand and listen to the world around you and find your place within it. Let your mind and body be still, like Regigigas.
When times are hard, and you don’t want to keep pushing and fighting, just remember to endure. Things change and change is hard, but just like Regigigas, you can endure and grow stronger for it.
When those around you seem to move a light speed compared to you, do not worry, but instead focus on yourself, and remember; you might have speed, but you have more than enough strength to break free of your chains and move continents.
Crush Grip is Regigigas’s signature move. With it, he crushes his opponent with his immense strength, growing stronger the stronger his opponent is.
It seems that his greatest strength is, of course, his strength. More so than that, he is empowered by those stronger than him, to crush them even more fiercely than he would be able to otherwise.
With the power of Crush Grip, one can stand against those that are bigger than you, stronger than you, or stand above you in your climb to greatest, and be empowered by their strength, to improve your own.
As the saying goes, the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
In Pokemon media, it is repeated shown that Regigigas will gladly sleep, completely enstatued for thousands of years on end, and that waking him is a difficult, and often foolhardy choice to make.
Whether it’s the wrecking of the Distortion World, causing glaciers around his home to crumble, or the assembling of his titans, the task is not an easy one, and the usual result is him attacking you and all your friends.
What does this mean for you as a worshiper?
Nothing that I’ve seen so far, only that he is slow to act and react. Patience would be a good skill to have.