And now, I think I've solved a large part of the mystery of Majora's Mask.
The Stone Tower is the Terminian equivalent of the Tower of Babel. The story of the Tower of Babel tells of mankind's attempt to defy God by building a tower that would reach the heavens. God thwarted their plans by making every man speak a different language. Unable to communicate, the men could not continue building the tower.
How does this apply to the Stone Tower? That tower was also built to defy the gods. Many people have mentioned that the Triforce can be seen on the statues leading to Ikana and on the blocks Link crosses to reach the top of the Tower. Nintendo did not put the Triforce there accidentally, or as an Easter egg. The Triforce is placed on the end of the tongue of the statue, and the statue uses its tongue to cover its crotch. Clearly the architects of those obscene statues were aware of the Triforce's existence and were mocking the three goddesses.
The hand at the top of the Stone Tower is pointing at the goddesses, and the phallic tower next to it is saying "Screw you." The Stone Tower itself resembles a giant phallus, sticking out of the earth and pointing towards the heavens to provoke the goddesses.
The ancient ones who built the Stone Tower were blaspheming the goddesses of the Triforce. Their plan seems to have been to open a portal in the sky that would lead them to heaven. But the goddesses would not allow this to happen, and they would not let this evil go unpunished. So they flipped the universe upside down.
The architects opened the portal, but because everything had been reversed it led them to hell. And in hell there was a being that had been sealed away during a previous age, a being that had attempted to destroy the world. The architects found the mask of the demon and brought it with them. And so the goddesses punished the builders of the Stone Tower by releasing Majora into their world. That world was then called Termina because it was doomed to end. The men who had found the mask honored it by placing symbols of it in all the temples, as well as in the realm where they had found it.
(Note: By hell, I am referring to the desert where Twinmold lurks. To support this theory, there are several hints in the game that the goddesses released Majora into Termina. The owl told Link that the world was destined to fade. Why should that world have such a dark fate? It's because of the horrible blasphemy of the Stone Tower. How is the world going to fade? Majora is going to destroy it. When the moon is gone, an enormous rainbow appears over Termina, and it seemed to be a hint that the goddesses had played some role in the story.)
Ages later, the Skull Kid stole the mask and the demon finally had a weak host it could use as a puppet. As Majora gained strength, it summoned the moon to come crashing into Termina, as it was the fate of that world to be destroyed. But then a child came into that doomed world, a child who was a member of the race that had been blessed by the goddesses, a child who had carried a piece of the sacred Triforce. That child was Link, and in three days he conquered the devil and saved the world. It should be noted that Link had entered a portal in the sky as he did this; was that the realm the ancient ones had tried to reach? As the moon was cast back into the heavens, the goddesses left behind a rainbow as a promise that they would not again seek to destroy Termina, as God had left a rainbow in the sky as a covenant with Noah after flooding the world.
Interestingly enough, though the goddesses spared Termina, they did send a flood to wipe out Hyrule.
After reading part of this thread at IGN, I wanted to add this: In the Stone Tower Temple Link found the Giant's Mask, which was a sort of tranformation mask. Each transformation mask contained a being's essence. Was there, at one point, a fifth Giant? Were there two Giants in the East, and was one of them sealed away? The Giant's Mask closely resembles the mask of the Garo Master. Perhaps one Giant was the patriarch of the Garos and the other the patriarch of the Ikanans, and the ancient conflict was the source of the tensions that led to the war that destroyed Ikana.
So, what do you think? Does this theory seem too much like fan-fiction, or do you think that the evidence in the game supports it? Is this the most logical explanation to the ambiguous story of MM?
Edited by Hylian Dan, 21 August 2006 - 08:05 PM.