The Road Poneglyph in the One Piece series is a fascinating, ancient stone artifact that is inscribed with old-world writings. Copies of the Road Poneglyph can only be understood by those who can comprehend the language of the Ancient Civilization, and the only person who can decipher it is Nico Robin. The Road Poneglyph is believed to contain historical information about the One Piece world, the Void Century, and Raftel, the legendary island that is considered to be the hiding place of the One Piece treasure.
In the One Piece story, the Road Poneglyph also plays a crucial role in the adventure of Luffy and the Straw Hat pirates. However, there are some who question whether the Road Poneglyph is just a fictional element created by Eiichiro Oda for his One Piece series and does not exist in the real world. Nevertheless, some theories propose that Eiichiro Oda would not have created the Road Poneglyph without any thought or research.
Curious fans want to read the Road Poneglyph’s inscriptions just like Nico Robin. Some have attempted to prove that the ancient stone’s writing is associated with programming. When examined, the letters in the ancient stone’s writing on the Road Poneglyph are generally shaped like three characters, namely squares, circles, and arrows. Character squares were marked as letter A, circles as B, and character C for arrows. However, the writing on the stone may have more letters than just the three characters similar to the Japanese alphabet. The details of the writing on the Road Poneglyph, as shown in the One Piece manga, have not yet been fully revealed.
While the programming theory is still under further investigation, there is another interesting theory to note. Like in the real world, each country has its own alphabet. However, referring to the Indonesian Alphabet or the commonly known 26-letter Alphabet, it is the result of centuries of evolution. If we look at Alphabet’s first generation’s evolution, some letter alphabets that currently total 26 were previously only 22. Meanwhile, the shape of the ancient Alphabet in the real world looks almost identical to the letters found on the Road Poneglyph in One Piece.
Not only that, but one of the circular letter characters in the Road Poneglyph’s writing similarly resembles a symbol in astrology’s birth chart. The circular letter character is a symbol of the sun in astrology, in other words, a planetary symbol. Fans have linked this character’s symbolism to the One Piece character, the Sun God Nika. Although it is still unclear how to read the Road Poneglyph and its authenticity, the fact that Eiichiro Oda did not create it randomly is evident with several small findings in the real world from the above theories.
