Forward This is an English translation of the Legend section of the Polish-language Bionicle minisite that was hosted on onet.pl in 2001. Unlike everything else on the minisite, this Legend section is totally unique among officially published Bionicle media. Alastair Swinnerton has kindly reviewed the translated text and confirmed it seems to be reworked content from early drafts of his story bible. Following this confirmation, portions of a 'draft 1' of the bible were posted online. Comparison to the pages available at the time of this writing show that the onet.pl legend was indeed based on a bible draft. Alastair also validated that the Great Creator Io character is derived from his writing. Taken directly from Maori culture, Io was removed from Bionicle when the toyline was still in early in development. Io, as well as the term tohunga, are kept here in the text for the sake of accurate preservation. Per usual this does not reflect an endorsement of Lego's appropriation of Maori culture. Please note, Matau suddenly being referred to as Nuju in Lewa's chapter is not a transcription error, this is in the Polish text. It could be an authorial error, or, less likely, that the green Turaga was in fact initially called Nuju. As an additional point of clarity, usage of the term "earth" ("the earth") is not invoking our planet Earth, but is being used generally to refer to the world the island is in. Multiple people came together to make this page and translation possible. The Polish site was located by skilled finder-of-things, joint-dogg. The text was machine translated, then proofread for accuracy by Polish speakers Voxovan and Lewa (Martyna Kamienik). Translation effort was coordinated by The Shadow Emperor, who also presented the writing to Alastair for context. This webpage was created by me (emily!) First published 2022.08.31 Forward updated with additional context as to the text's origin on 2024.07.05