User blog comment:Zathronas/Speculative Author - RWBY Relativity/@comment-7622429-20160225135902/@comment-7622429-20160227003830

That could easily be seen as an issue with interpretation. I interpret it as the stuff of legend actually being literally true, that Humanity came from Dust, and discovered something akin to what they believe their origins to be, naming it as such.

My theory simple posits that the two are one and the same, serving as a physical embodiment of the soul of Remnant itself.