Glyphologic Analysis: Who are the Shapers?

Glyphologic Analysis: Who are the Shapers?

(->Topic: Shapers, N'zeer - do they exist? Are they the same? Or different?)

Let's take a look back at the beginning of the Niantic Project, the information we were given about the research results from the CERN lab, the ordered data being sent from the portals. We were told that there are entities on the other side of the portals that want to influence our evolution, shape our path into the future through use of XM. Thus they were called the Shapers.

That is the basic information someone gets when he picks up the Ingress Scanner app for the first time and is asked to chose a side:
Enlightened: Support the accelarated human evolution by means of XM and help from the Shapers.
Resistance: Fight the Shaper influence, humans should evolve without XM.

All very simple and clear.

Is it?

Let's take three Glyphs: Human, Shapers and Improve. And turn them into a Glyph Sequence (GS).

If we go by the information provided above, the logical sequence would be: Shapers - Improve - Humans
For sure a GS with an Enlightened point of view, but one that would fit what we were told.

But what we get from the scanner is: Improve -  Human - Shapers.

A simple explanation would be to put an "and" in between Human and Shapers, symbolizing a sort of symbiotic relationship that benefits both sides. Let's leave it at this for a second.

We do find this combination in a second GS:
Portal - Barrier - Defend - Human - Shapers

And yes, again putting an "and" between Human and Shapers would make sense. At least at first glance. But if the Portals are a barrier, and Humans and Shapers are supposed to be on different sides, how would they be able to defend both?

At this point we should ask ourselves who provided the original information about the Shapers? In short: it came from the Niantic Project, probably tailored to his own agenda by Ezekiel Calvin.

Going by what we learned during the Darsana and Shonin anomalies, there are entites on the other side of the portals. They are called the N'zeer, locked away on the other side of the portals by the group called 13Magnus who also tried to erase all knowledge about them. And there's the Anti-Magnus group, who secretly kept that knowledge alive and is now trying to bring back the N'zeer.
In the light of this knowledge I think it is save to assume that at least the N'zeer do exist - on the other side of the portals. And they seem to be opposed to the Shapers.

Going back to the 2nd GS and "and" would now make sense again, the portals being a barrier that protects both Humans and Shapers from the N'Zeer - if it weren't for the fact that both would have to be on this side to be protected from the N'Zeer.

Conclusions? Theories?

Maybe there is no spoon ... erm, no Shapers. Or the Shapers are beings that once were humans, but became something more through use of XM? Simulacra, or something similar to Roland Jarvis.

When the 13Magnus tried to follow/recreate the Osiris Myth, it is hard to imagine that they were successful right from the start. Some of their experiments with XM might have simply had no result at all, but some may also have had unexpected results. A test subject dosed heavily with XM and then killed near a portal - we just have to look at Jarvis to see what can come out of that. They could not be reborn, but maybe instead they found what they consider enlightenment?

Separate - Mind - Body - Discover - Enlightenment

The true meaning behind
Pursue - Path - Outside - Shapers - Lie
might not be to follow the resistance path (Shapers' lie = Shapers' false promise of human evolution through XM) but rather to see the lie we were told about the Shapers' existence, and follow a path of truth.

Avoid - Chaos - Avoid - Shapers - Lie
A lot of the chaos we experienced since Epiphany Night could indeed have been avoided if we had been more critical about what we were told about the so-called Shapers.

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TL;DR: There are no Shapers, or Shapers are beings that evolved from Humans through XM (possibly through 13Magnus expreiments)