Of course we all know the Egyptian mythology ties to the show (you do right? if you don't you better ask somebody..)
In a nutshell, the hatch when the numbers aren't entered they wig out and flash a few hieroglyphics but you thought nothing of it, Richard Alpert and his infamous eyeliner which if you dig a lil deeper Egyptian's were the first to use it, thats it, so what does it symbolize? not quite sure, pharohe? The Glyphs last week that Ben found when being judged have no significant reading but its suspected that the symbols may have been copied over from The Book of the Dead (ancient egyptian funerary text) and the big clue was the amazing view of the fully erected statue. Although, from behind little is given, but it does bear MANY commonalities to egyptian statues.. Annubis came to mind first.. deeper research we found Apep, Tarawet and Isis..
Annubis the god of the Dead
Apep god of evil
Tarawet god of child birth
Isis god of fertility
Each god spawning their own theories to the show.. Annubis protects the dead which would make the island purgatory, so is this an undead war? The Good and Evil sides (yet to be determined) fighting to have these lost souls leave purgatory? Apep, lurking evil on the island, The good needs to supress it, while the evil wants to harness it for power? Tarawet, maybe with a statue of the god of child birth, it protected the lives and future lives of people on the island, and when the statue fell, thats when people weren't able to bear children? Or is it Isis? Fertility was strong everyone was reproducing and when it fell BAM.. Children of Men up on the island.. hmmm.. LOL so many theories its mind numbing..
Tonight was yet another quick glimpse into more egyptian ties.. looks like the Dharma folk are teaching their children the future D-I about the history and beliefs of the egyptian culture.. this is the chalkboard Jack was cleaning off before a very drunk Roger reported for work...
i went and looked up each:
Ideograms: (wiki)
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek ἰδέα idea "idea" + γράφω grafo "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. They can be a straighforward pictogram, or a more abstract symbol that is comprehensible only on the basis of prior convention.
Examples of ideograms include wayfinding signs, such as in airports and other environments where many people may not be familiar with the language of the place they are in, as well as Arabic numerals and formal languages (mathematical notation, logic, UML), which are used worldwide regardless of how they are pronounced in different languages.
Phonograms: (wiki)
A phonogram is a grapheme (written character) which represents a phoneme (speech sound) or combination of phonemes, such as the letters of the Latin alphabet or the Japanese kana. This contrasts with logograms, which represents words and morphemes (meaningful units of language), and determinatives, silent characters used to mark semantic categories.
Determinative: (wiki)
A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation. They have no direct counterpart in spoken language, though they may derive historically from glyphs for real words, and functionally they resemble classifiers in East Asian and sign languages. For example, Egyptian hieroglyphic determinatives include symbols for divinities, people, parts of the body, animals, plants, and books/abstract ideas, which helped in reading but none of which were pronounced.
Here's my take.. These items were taught so that Dharma can use them as some sort of "code" language that the others would not figure out? Using them as way points and markers to find secret locations on the island much like the secret route in tonights episode when we get to see the hatch being secretly built.. I havent watched it any more closer than i did, but were there signs leading up to the "secret" gate to the hatch location?
Other doodles you'll find on the chalkboard, the bird glyph you see when the numbers wig out.. what looks like to me the H-Bomb that Future Faraday and past Ellie (Eloise) took him too.. and the words Phonetic, meaning to convey... I'm wondering if we were given a pictogram? Maybe the symbols in Smokey's Chamber? Somewhere we saw something and if we just put the pictures together.. we might get an answer... =/
And now Star Wars fans rejoice.. heres a lil sci fi for yo ass...
So what about the conversations surrounding Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back?. Although, Hurley wanted to help George Lucas with the sequel, he DID want to add in a few improvements. He lectured Miles and said that if Luke (Skywalker) dropped his attitude and had simply communicated with his dad (Darth Vader) to give him a second chance instead of acting all immature and eventually getting his arm cut off, then maybe we wouldn’t have had to deal with the Ewoks in the next movie and we all know that “The Ewoks sucked, dude!” What’s even more interesting about this is that we know that Pierre Cheng is going to lose HIS arm at some point because as Marvin Candle, (Beezwax, Wick), in The Swan Orientation video, he was wearing a prosthetic. @_@ Scary I know... but good lord are the writers fucking geniuses..!
And its pretty much confirmed.. Bram is the same guy that is on the island with the new crashies.. he gets the guns with Ilana and asks that million dollar question:
"What lies in the shadow of the staute?"
Fuck if i know.. but my only theory on that is either they've been to the island before (which we know Bram is familiar with but not sure if he's been here before) or its just a freak coincidence and they are using some line from a poem to see who knows the secret passcode.. my bet is for my first theory.. because since when do you find anything on Lost a coincidence?
/sigh.. next week is a special event filler.. 2 weeks from now is the good stuff..
Let this marinate in your head for 2 weeks.. hahah..
