If you're anal enough, or confused enough, to read the official Lost recaps posted at ABC.com, you might have noticed that in its description of the opening sequence of the finale "The Incident," it casually identifies the four-toed statue that's been perplexing fans of the show for years. And I'm pretty sure Jacob and other-guy-on-the-beach didn't mention it. But apparently, it is officially the visage of the Egyptian god Taweret, who came to be associated with evil perpetrated during the day; it was her husband Apep at night.
She's also tied to pregnancy and childhood, with many Egyptian women wearing amulets bearing her likeness or name to ward off evil spirits. The devil, maybe? Later, she came to be associated with Set and was said to have thrown off her evil ways and held him back on a chain.
I'm sure an Egyptologist can have a field day extrapolating the meaning of this in association with the island. Certainly, its peculiar properties in relation to pregnant women would seem to be a connection, though rather than protecting them, it's killing them.
I guess I'm going to have to study up on my ancient Egyptian and Greek to get the final season.
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5-28-2009 @ 2:20PM
Gordon Werner said...
Pregnant women only seemed to die AFTER the statue was destroyed ...
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5-28-2009 @ 2:20PM
Gordon Werner said...
Pregnant women only seemed to die AFTER the statue was destroyed ...
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5-28-2009 @ 2:51PM
ac said...
Well that explains the pregnancy problems. The nuke Juliet set off probably blasted the statue apart, which caused the babies and mothers to die, which is what brought her to the island the the first place! (:o)
If this is what happens then The Incident was in fact caused by Jack.
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5-28-2009 @ 3:34PM
Logan said...
That may also have something to do with the reason that Jacob (or Aaron, as I like to call him) lives in the base of the statue. He was the only baby, post-incident, to survive being born on the island.
5-29-2009 @ 10:09PM
Wayne said...
The statue was already destroyed in 1974. We don't know when it was destroyed.
5-28-2009 @ 3:27PM
Bill said...
Are we sure these are written with the writers/producers' input? Cause that thing looks a heck of a lot more like Sobek than Tawaret:
http://www.egyptartsite.com/sobek.html
It could be these "official" synopses are written by some intern who grabbed the Tawaret name off a forum.
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6-03-2009 @ 1:24PM
Logan said...
I'm sorry to say it, but you must not be looking at the same statue as the rest of us...
Taweret:
http://image05.webshots.com/5/6/8/20/63060820xQwwLk_fs.jpg
Sobek is always represented with a tall, slender headdress in statues:
http://www.biasci.com/polyorg/Sobek_idol.jpg
5-28-2009 @ 3:43PM
TotallyNormal said...
J.J. Abrams seems to concur:
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Statue_of_Taweret
5-28-2009 @ 4:08PM
Bill said...
Sorry if I'm double posting this, but my first attempt seems to have disappeared into the ether:
I am looking at the same statue (and the drawing of the statue on that piece of cloth). The statue appears to be a slender man, ankh in each hand, crocodile head.
Sobek is sometimes depicted as a crocodile, or a man with a croc head and a headdress, but just as often, a man with a crocodile head and no headdress (the headdress is related to Ra). Do a google image search, you'll find some of each of these.
Then do a google image search of Taweret. Taweret is a hippo god of fertility. You'll see big pot bellies on all of them. (and sometimes a crocodile on Taweret's back rather than a crocodile for a head).
Anyway, my point was that I won't just take some synopsis on abc's website as canon. But I guess even though the statue looks more to me like Sobek, the Wired thing would seem to indicate that they mean it to be Taweret. Unless it's a deliberate red herring. Oooh.
5-28-2009 @ 8:06PM
srangel351 said...
Jacob is either Anubis or osiris look them up. And the dark dude is probably Set. If you read their mythologies they fall in line with whats going on in the show. Also it could be that Jacob is Osiris and the dark dude Anubis...but most likely the evil dude is Set.
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5-29-2009 @ 12:56AM
jonathan said...
"I guess I'm going to have to study up on my ancient Egyptian and Greek to get the final season."
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE F YOU JUST TYPED.
As a fan from the first season (not the guy that rented the dvds afterward) this feels like the biggest slap in the face.
It seems as if a great majority of people are still in love with the show and shunning everyone else who didn't like the season finale.
here's a wikipedia link we should be looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
it is ridiculous to keep going on with this. It's not that I'm accusing them of not knowing how it will end - its just that the way it looks like it will end is just out of this world, batshit crazy and stupid.
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5-29-2009 @ 2:44AM
SImpression said...
Michael Emerson also seemed to believe it to be Taweret.
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5-29-2009 @ 4:02AM
DapperDan said...
HECK I just want to know what lies in the shadow of the dang statue LOL
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5-29-2009 @ 4:03AM
DapperDan said...
HECK I just want to know what lies in the dang shadow of the statue LOL
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10-19-2009 @ 8:57AM
son of jacob said...
Agree with your point about the flash being white, think it means they have time skipped again. Wouldnt it be cool if they end up in Sobek just as Bens about to kill jacob. The losties where all brought to the island by jacob so they must be there to help him in some way. I think it will be little bit disappointing if Richard is just going on what he"s being told at in different time periods by the losties, like when Jack told him to believe in Locke in 77 or the fact that it was Locke who told him to take the bullet out and tell John to bring the others back. Does richard know anything about anything? Except maybe Jacob, he seems to know something about jacob as the " "he whom we all serve" line seems to hint at. Regardless i enjoyed it when i thought Richard was wise, no what i mean? Who was on the black rock? Why was it brought to the island? How did it end up in the middle of the island?? Good questions lol. Another point, if jacobs been "alive" for god knows how long and he"s able to bring people to the island and command them that live on the island and heal the sick (locke) and help people find purpose then there"s no way he would just let ben walk into his home and kill him! Maybe he is good after all and his death is the sacrifice that ensures peace on the island lol Havent a clue to be honest but cant wait to find out. Is it january yet?? cheers
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5-29-2009 @ 7:09AM
son of jacob said...
ac dont think we"ve seen the statue in 77 have we?. I think it was detroyed long before that but i could be wrong. Agree that what ever happened Jack caused rather than cancelled the "incident", silly jack always reacting tut tut. Jonathan chill out mate nobodys going to make you watch it, if your not happy, change channel !simples. On an unrelated topic, boy that horus turned out to be a pussy, who put him in charge anyway lol cheers
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