An Open Discussion on What the Famitsu Article Called Ganon.

Recently I translated several parts of the Famitsu article on BotW. However, there was one page I missed. I thought page 169 was the title cover, when there was actually a page before it. Now for the most part there wasn't much new on page 168. But there was a line that caught my attention:

>[Page 168](http://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/scans-2117/scan__8_.jpg)

>そこは、１００年前**大厄災**と呼ばれる災害で滅亡したハイラルだった！！(soko wa hyakunen-mae daiyakusai to yobareru saigai de metsubō shita hairaru datta!!)

>There, was the Hyrule that was destroyed 100 years ago by a disaster called the **Great Calamity.**

Now the writing of the isn't the same. But 大厄災(daiyakusai) is another way as saying the same thing as 大いなる災い(ooi naru wazawai). Which is the Japanese name of the "Great Cataclysm" mentioned in ALttP (There written as オオイナル ワザワイ(ooi naru wazawai). With 厄災(yakusai) and 災い(wazawai) being synonyms, both meaning a disaster, calamity, or misfortune. While 大いなる(ooi naru) means 'to be/become big/great,' and 大(dai) carries the meaning of 'big/great.'

Now this seems really odd to me. [As mention by Aonuma](http://www.zeldainformer.com/aonuma-gives-us-a-hint-regarding-breath-of-the-wilds-timeline-placement/), the line given by the old woman from the Switch Presentation trailer says that Ganon has been witnessed multiple times throughout Hyrule's History.

>ハイラル王国の歴史は太古の昔から幾度もガノンという名の厄災に見舞われてきた歴史。(hairaru ōkoku no rekishi wa taiko no mukashi kara ikudo mo ganon to iu na no yakusai ni mimawarete kita rekishi)

>The history of the Hyrule Kingdom, since the ancient past, is a history have having witnessed many times a calamity of a name called Ganon.

Assuming Famitsu was correct in calling him that, how does this line from Famitsu tie together with the trailer of Ganon being witnessed many times? If BotW is the Sealing/Imprisoning War, this really should only be the second time Hyrule has suffered at the hand of Ganon. Unless they are counting all the periods of suffering the Kingdom has gone through in the last 100 years as part of the many times, or the speaker has some knowledge of Ganon's connection to Demise.

But if it isn't the Imprisoning War, does this mean Hyrule continued to call him the Great Calamity long into the timeline? Or is this just a case of a similar name being attached to a Ganon outside the Defeated Timeline?

What is everyone else's thoughts on this?