We've already noticed that Oddworld has some physical laws that look too strange for us, earthlings.
Regarding your theory on moons, Dequibenzo, I completely agree, but you didn't answer my most intriguing doubtr: how the hands in the moons were made. In Stockyard there is a good picture of Abe's moon. In that screen we can see that the mudokon hand is formed by a set of craters, although it doesn't look like something that was created by chance. My guess is that the hands in the moons were created by some huge power who could control and redirect the trajectory of asteroids coming from the space, or a power strong enough to toss huge rocks at fantastic speeds from the surface of Oddworld, thus creating the shapes in the moons.
As for the birds going back in time ( every time Abe dies), I think this particular problem doesn't have a solution, since quicksave was created in Abe's Exoddus (How can Abe instantly backtrack to a previous position in the space-time?) and further in Munch's Oddysee. Now, if Abe or Munch dies, they dont go back in time, instead, the are hatched again from a new egg (I don't know what happens if both die).
I also think that birds are atracted by the distortions that create the portals, but I can't figure out why and how the birds are used to open them, since Abe can only open the portals if the birds are flying around it. (oh, I just read your idea of birds being illusions, well, that could explain a lot of things)
More questions: Why there are all those signs and messages directly addressed to Abe in all the Glukkon franchises? For instance, who put that message "RUN ABE, THE SLIGS HAVE ORDERS TO SHOOT YOU ON SIGHT" in Rupture Farm, zulag 1? And why does he need to prees "the arrow keys" to run"? the Ctrl key to perform actions? I think that Abe is actually a puppet, controled by a almighty powerful god... us.
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