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But honestly I think the problem is trying to 1:1 any of this. It seems far more likely to me that all 3 are an amalgam of a variety of ideas...
I agree with you in that they probably are a mish-mash of concepts. I just think that the Yggdrasil theory in particular is profoundly ineffective when it comes to making any meaningful connections. Either, as in the case of Xerneas and Yveltal, because there are vastly more fitting comparisons out there, or, as in the case of Zygarde, because its characterization is diametrically opposed to that of the mythological figure it is said to emulate. I did offer some credit to the Jormangand idea, of course, because I don't think it's totally implausible. But I've come to think that we tend to read too deeply into these things in general. I really could see it being a simple matter of them looking for X-, Y-, and Z-shaped Pokémon, deciding on a stag and a bird for the first two beause of their common connections to life and death and conveniently X- and Y-like body shapes, and then just defaulting to a snake (because what else are you going to use for a Z-shaped animal?) for Zygarde because that Forme didn't actually have to mean anything since they weren't going to make a corresponding Z game.