Hieroglyphics under the Temple

[shaggy658]

Originally Posted by Piecar

I didn't know Popular Mechanics would be interested in LOST. Things must have changed since I last looked at this magazine.

Thanks for the article. I find it funny that the expert basically says "I don't know anymore than you folks...but I'll cover the same ground you did for a sound bite."

The ears of Magdet are at least closer to the Colossus. I gotta guess, though, that the big reveal will show some familiar face. It would seem to be the only reason to keep it secret.

yeah, its really good if you search som of their past articles. The have physists talking about time travel, experts on the sonic fence, egyptologists, etc. I've met very few lost fans who know about it though.

[Sam G]

Popular Mechanic has been tracking LOST and Fringe.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/scie...h/4313536.html just look at "Also See" I've been adding them to the LOST library.

[miawallace]

Anubis looks to be in the same position in this pic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead
as he is in the temple symbols.

Also see here
http://www.timetrips.co.uk/papyrus_of_hunefer.htm
where it says anubis is adjusting the weight on the scales.

Looks like this pic is about being judged for the afterlife.

Just thought it was interesting.

[kansasgal71]

I just found this interesting Egyptian rock carving. I really resembles the carving on the bottom of the Anubis Relief in Smokey's Temple. However, I cannot find anything out about this.... really wanting some help. If anyone recognizes this or can find anything more about it I would greatly appreciate it. Just wanting to know the symbology of spearing the scorpion... pretty sure it is supposed to be Set... but think it might be a clue...

http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/wp-c...ving_5_sfw.jpg

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I just found it... it is the reverse side of the "Metternich Stele" also called "Magical Stele" and "Cippi of Horus.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/leg/img/pl18.jpg

[Assassin X]

I no I don't post often but I wanted to throw something out there. Since I have watched on day one ever since I seen that statues foot and then Richard Alperts non aging. I wondered if there was something Egyptian going on with the island. Something ancient and if he was involved.

Now as time has gone on we've seen more things Egyptian related like the hieroglyphs and the full statue which when it was first seen I said looked like Anubis. And now seeing the smoke monsters lair with anubis on the wall.....everything seems to make sense to me.

So anyone else think Richard Alpert ties in with the statue, the island, smokey....etc. I think maybe he was one of the original islanders, maybe a scientist from egypt at the time who discovered the island and got trapped there and figured out how to age very slow. BTW I commented another time that his eyes look egyptian too.

[JeffinBoca]

Originally Posted by Eleri

I think it is Anubis, but not as we know Anubis. I'm thinking the culture on the Island was proto-Egyptian, something that broke off early in the development of what grows into what we know as Egyptian mythos and culture. That's why things are similar-but not exact.

But if they're proto-Egyptian, why do they use hieroglyphics from the Middle Kingdom period, a thousand years into Egypt's history?

[Pythagoras99]

Originally Posted by JeffinBoca

But if they're proto-Egyptian, why do they use hieroglyphics from the Middle Kingdom period, a thousand years into Egypt's history?

Maybe they were there on the island before Egypt, but their culture continued on there through the middle kingdom in Egypt.

[johnyc]

Originally Posted by Another Other

I believe he said "We don't have a name for it, but I believe your people call it the 'Smoke Monster'." but I'll have to check. Thankfully, I taped it.

I'm thinking that if Ben and the Others don't have a name for it, then our trying to 'put a name to it' may be in vain. Just sayin'....

Originally Posted by kansasgal71

... yet whomever built the Temple (The Others??) did what humans do, explain the unknown using the knowledge and mythology they know. .

I think this is a key idea.

Originally Posted by kansasgal71

Quote from James P Allen....
...though he says in actuality, no Egyptian scene looks like what's shown on Lost.

Originally Posted by wanders01

I'm starting to wonder if we are trying to put a square peg in a round hole. We keep trying to take the info given us and make it fit known facts. Perhaps we should consider that TPTB have come up with their own set of meanings that do not correspond to what is commonly known.

I am thinking that Egyptian mythology is only one of many belief systems that have been and will be featured on the Island (or at least, in the show).
I'm not certain that what we are looking at in Smokie's lair is really Egyptian.
Firstly, the 'Lightning Snake' figure; no Egyptian styling at all.
Then there is the figure supposed to be Anubis. If so then:
Why isn't it holding an ankh?
Why isn't it wearing any adornments or have any Egyptian affectations at all?
Why is it sitting akimbo, almost like an American native stylization?
Why is it seemingly naked, save for the lines on the legs that could be construed as buckskin?

I don't know, but I have a guess: It's not Anubis.
This may be ancient American mythos being presented-
This is a depiction of Coyote, the trickster spirit, perhaps in supplication to Quetzalcoatl (Aztec god of death and ressurection) regarding his many acts of (usually irreverant) mischief.
It may be presented as a correlation of Ben (coyote) in judgment before Smokie, but also (mainly) as another example of what kansasgal said about the previous occupants trying to make sense out of the unusual properties of the Island.

The 'eyes' appear more to be Aztec/Mayan than Egyptian, and the figure at the base of the 'zig-zag' critter can be a step pyramid of those same peoples.

To make things worse (or more fun ) we also may have the possible situation that different peoples that have come to the Island at different times may add to existing engravings. The secret door in Ben's room sure looks rather 'multi-cultural' to me, there is more than just hieroglyphs on it.

Can't wait until we come across a Celtic stone ring and/or some Viking stuff.

So. what do ya think?

[kansasgal71]

Ran across the blog of Duncan Crawford... the sculptor who created Smokies Lair. Many behind the scenes photos of the hieroglyphics and Anubis/Smokie..

http://skulboy6.blogspot.com/2009/04...e-monster.html

[Sam G]

Very Cool!