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Enel, God of Thunder, or of anything, usually has multiple copies of a thing
behind his back.

![Enel with arrow designating thing in
question](https://i.stack.imgur.com/kGuh2l.jpg)

What is that thing? Did he transplant it inside his body?


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What is that thing behind Enel's back?


If you have a look at the [Appearance section of Enel's wiki
page](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Enel#Appearance), you can see that
(emphasis mine)

> Enel is a tall, muscular man who has white/blond hair which was, in ancient
> South American civilizations, considered godly..
>
> His nose has many lines running horizontally across it. His ear lobes are
> extremely long, ending up to his torso. **He also holds four large Tomoe
> drums attached via a large ring to his back, instead of the regular
> Skypiean/Birkan wings, which gives him an appearance similar to a Raijin, a
> similarity made even more prominent when using his "200,000,000 Volt Amaru"
> transformation.**

So they are basically just external features of his attire and not really
something which he has transplanted to his body.


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I don't watch One Piece, so this may be completely off-base, but.

Given that Enel is a god of thunder, and given that he has that thing around
his head, it is plausible that his appearance is an allusion to some
depictions of
[Taishakuten](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B8%9D%E9%87%88%E5%A4%A9 "in
Japanese") (a.k.a.
[Shakra/Sakka](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Aakra_%28Buddhism%29), a.k.a.
[Indra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra)). As Indra, he is a god of thunder
in Hinduism (and in pre-Trimurti Vedic religion, the chief god of the
pantheon), and he was later loosely adopted into Buddhism as Shakra. As
Shakra, he is sometimes (not sure how often) depicted with a wheel behind his
head that looks similar to the thing behind Enel's head:

[![Shakra](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pQEldm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pQEld.jpg)
[![Taishakuten](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uZoWrm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uZoWr.jpg)


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They're taiko drums, explicitly called such in the manga. Nami shouts in
chapter 276 (first chapter of volume 30), "The taiko drum is turning into a
bird?!" (Haha, that sounds silly without context.)

They appear to be transplanted into his body. There are some points where you
can see his back, and they just go into his back. The first frame of 276 is a
good reference, coincidentally.

*Since the wiki pages are made by fans, I don't use them as hard reference, just starting points and a "maybe this is correct" guideline. The "tomoe" appears to be the design on the drums.


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