Giygas- 1,000 Years

The surface of the stone was covered with finely carved symbols. These symbols seemed to be divided into three separate blocks. At the bottom were symbols that were strangely cute-looking, made of circles and triangles and squiggly lines. Above those were characters made from sharp notches pointing up, down, left, right, and every possible direction in between. And at the top there were very pictorial symbols. Things like the Scaraba and the dog and cat heads they had seen in the previous exhibits were scattered among them here and there.
	...And above those pictorial symbols was very childish-looking graffiti, scrawled in what looked like Magic Marker ink. There was a drawing of a person with a very round face and a pig's snout, and another person with a little upside-down V for a mustache, both riding in a helicopter and saying, “Whee!” ...And there were four other people, one with glasses, one with a ribbon, one with a baseball cap, and one with a tight braid at the very top of his head, stomping their feet in frustration.
	“Hmm...what's this...?” muttered the kindly curator, as he compared this drawing to the four children standing before him. “W-what the? That looks just like...”
	“'The devil's fire pours down upon the mountains and sinks into a sea of binary stars,'” Poo read aloud in a grave voice. His eyes, which were narrow even under normal circumstances, were as fine as threads as he glared at the stone. “'After much time has passed, it comes from the heavens, embracing a wicked mind...'”
	The curator was stunned. “Y-you...you can read it?” he stammered.
	“'Generations of royalty and heroes gather in great numbers, and the people build a pyramid fortress in order to combat this threat. After years of fighting, by the grace of the gods, the almighty fool Giygas is defeated at last and is banished to the ends of time. Joyful song returns to the earth. However, the predictions of scholars and soothsayers warn that it has since established its evil lair beyond space and time, as never was it fully destroyed. It lies still in a rift in time within the Deep Darkness, trailing shadow through the generations. After a thousand years have passed, its evil intent will be resurrected, and the golden brilliance of the Mani Mani will lead the people astray and drown them in captivating greed. Four of our descendants, young and brave, must rise, and they must destroy this threat. They must uphold our ageless and sacred protection of this sky, this earth, this sea'...”
	“So in other words,” Jeff began, “a thousand years ago, the ancient people built a pyramid in order to fight off Giygas the first time. But, it also says that he's supposed to come back someday. And so far, that prediction about the golden Mani Mani statue making people greedy has been spot-on.”
	“And it's made its lair...in a place 'beyond space and time'?” added Paula. “So I guess that's where we have to attack it, right?”
	“And that rift in time...this says it's in the 'Deep Darkness'!” said Ness. “Oh, we have to hurry! Pokey headed off toward the Deep Darkness a while ago!”
...

<Congratulations! And, thank you for everything, Ness!>
	“Buzz Buzz!” Ness couldn't help but cry out, then he hurriedly lowered his voice. “You're alive, Buzz Buzz!”
	<Thanks to you!> said Buzz Buzz, as he performed a skillful somersault. <This space-time phase was displaced just slightly, and history was repaired. The world that you all came from has been overlapped and absorbed by this world, where I did not die. And it's all thanks to the efforts of you and your three friends. Giygas...that awful monster, slunk back into some abyss in the many universes. The rift in time has been closed, and it will not open again for at least another thousand years.>

- MOTHER 2: Giygas Strikes Back, chapters 7 and 10