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Originally posted by Dequibenzo
Who says the Mudokon faith can't be "wrong"? Perhaps they personify the spiritual being of oddworld as a single being because they're more comfortable with it. There's a substantial amount of people here on Earth that think our planet itself has a spiritual presence, and that people created the notion of God as a being simply because they couldn't fathom the "truth".
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This is perfectly possible, but for one fact: The Mudokons are the good guys. They are right. I wouldn't want it to be that black and white, but that's Oddworld for you... We can only hope that we begin to see more shades of grey towards the end of the Quintology...
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I like Max's theory, that there's some kind of mudokon freedom movement that was around before Abe, and they're helping him through his steps.
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There are Mudokon Terrorists out there. I remember Alf answered a question about who it was that gave Abe the Spirit Rings by saying something about Big Face's friends in the Mudokon Freedom Movement, or something like that. Alf was in one of his "sensible" moods at the time, as well, so I think we can trust him.
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Here's some more guesses on the subject of the Abe-directed messenges.
1- Sam is doing it. Maybe the Gluks have a little motivational thing going on, where the view screens are sometimes hooked up to the Shrink, and she gets to talk to the slaves. Of course, being the sad-sack she is, most of the time it's stuff like "keep working, their's nothing else in life, trust your mother on this", but when she sees Abe rescuing them (because, remember, she knows he's the savior in this scenario) she starts giving him advice. This would explain why those screens are mostly gone in MO- the gluks caught on to Sam's involvement, and had them all removed.
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Naah. Sam's unstable. The Glukks wouldn't give her that kind of power...
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2- This spirit/god/whatever of oddworld is doing it. Kind of like when people say they see the virgin Mary in a taco shell, Abe starts seeing messages on screens, in clouds of fireflies, and anywhere else that's a usable medium. Just more help from an omnipotent guardian entity, that's all.
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That would explain why the other Muds don't seem to notice it, but it just doesn't seem to ring true to me...
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3- Munch is doing it (okay, this one's just goofy). Towards the end of the quintology, munch somehow gets sent back in time (perhaps through the same method that the birds send you back, hmm...), his job to possess the screens and give Abe advice as he goes.
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No. Just... No...
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4- The spirits of the dead are doing it. Remember that sligs are superstitious, and lock up spirits in the temples. Where did they first learn about them, then? In the factories, where ancient mudokon spirits wander around aimlessly, sometimes screwing with the message screens just to scare them. Then, just like the weirdos, as soon as Abe comes around the spirits know it's time, so they all start helping him.
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Sorry, where did you find out that sligs were superstitious? It sounds familiar, but I can't place it...
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5- Abe is doing it. Those messages aren't really there, they're all in his mind, an illusion, like I speculated the birds might be. Perhaps another of his messiah abilities is hidden knowledge, which surfaces itself subconciously.
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See 2.
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6- Ratz are doing it. The great and Mighty raisin (who never really got a formal introduction, as far as I know) has been watching you the entire time, and, with the ratz as his eyes, he sends them out to chew on the wires and transmit messages to you (okay, this one's kind of dumb too).
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I like this one. It seems the most likely out of the choices you've given us...
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7- One of the yet unknown heros is doing it. Squeek, or Nod, or whoever, turns out to have been following you since the beginning, helping out behind the scenes, until he trips or something, falls down, and formally introduces himself. He's shy, I guess.
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Hmm... Have to think about that one...
But I think the most likely explanation is simply that Abe is not alone in his quest to free the Mudokon race...