#mod lou

First of all, it’s important to understand that we’re moving into largely unmapped areas. Our largest resource in canon is Smallfoot’s song Let it Lie, which means that we need to have full trust in that song and the images it portrays - not ideal, but it’s all we’ve got to work with.

It’s hard to tell exactly how many generations the yetis have been up on the mountain since we don’t know how old they can be, but there are 12 Stonekeeper statues in the main Hall of Stonekeeper’s mansion. This means that there have been at least 13 Stonekeepers in total (the 12 statues plus Stonekeeper himself). So for generations - at least 13.

For the years we need to take a careful look at the stone memorial shown during Let it Lie. There are four “hooks” (hints that can help us figure out years and times) we’re given -

(screenshots taken from Smallfoot (2018))

What Stonekeeper sings isn’t nearly as important as what he shows us. First of all, the pitchfork (shown in the first picture) was first used in Europe during the Early Middle Ages (years 500 - 1000).

The settlements from the second picture seem to come from more or less the same time period - the Early Middle Ages. When looking up “Early Middle Age houses” this is the results:

Seem familiar, no? Not to mention that houses during this time were often either miles apart or very close to each other.

Which gives us the first time stamp and the first place: Early Middle Ages in Europe.

The next hook shows us someone wielding a “smoking stick of thunder” - a gun. But this isn’t just a random person using a gun - when I saw the movie for the first time the armor - the hat especially - was very familiar.

Pictured above is a Spanish soldier from the 1500′s (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador). This gives us a second time and place stamp: South-West Europe (Spain), the 1500′s.

The armor of the last hook was also familiar to me - and guess what, after a quick google search I found that this is also a well-known style. 

This, pictured here, is a Roman warrior - and Romans were around from ca. 400 BC - 1400 AD. This gives us the last and final time and place stamp.

The earliest of these four hooks is the roman one, meaning that there were yetis up on that mountain between 400 BC and 1400 AD who came from Roman areas. That gives us, at most, 2400 years to work with.

Then there’s the question of how all the other timestamps work into this - and hear me out, now, because things are getting messy.

Sometime before the roman yetis, a group of Himalayan yetis makes their way onto the mountain. They start making the stone memorial but does not complete it. Some yetis go down from the mountain every now and then to scavenge for food/medicine/survivors etc., and slowly the word about their safe haven spreads. Yetis from other places around the world start showing up. (Romans, 400BC). They share their stories about the smallfeet, and more work is put into the stone memorial. More yetis show up. (Early Middle Ages, Europe). Time goes by. More yetis show up (Spanish, 1500′s). Through the years less and less yetis appear - they’re all on the mountain, and the rest are either wiped out of existence or living in caves by themselves. By the time the movie rolls around, the stone memorial is all but considered done.

(At one point the Stonekeeper decides that for some reason the steam machine must be built, and all that happens - we can work around that, however.)