Taweret or Sobek or combination of many? (I vote many/composite)

UPDATE: Aha! moment.

(disclaimer: probably too much analysis of this easter egg.)

Okay so what IF the statue is Taweret.  I can live with that, with her linkage to fertility and the current lack thereof on the Island (and her current state of being… well she’s only a foot now)

What is Jacob embodies Sobek? From the wiki:

On occasion, later, rather than having a crocodile back, she was seen as having a separate, small crocodile resting on her back, which was thus interpreted as Sobek, the crocodile-god, and said to be her consort.

Why the quibble? Well because I really like this description of Sobek, vis-a-vis my pet theories of Jacob and his qualities (which admittedly could be all wrong).

Sobek’s ambiguous nature led some Egyptians to believe that he was a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself, for example, going to Duat to restore damage done to the dead as a result of their form of death. He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situation, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part

bolding mine?

UPDATE teh second:

So presuming Taweret as statue and Jacob as Sobek analog, where does that put our friend black shirt.  If he is the embodiment of Smokey (perhaps black shirt was actually a manifestation of Smokey, hmmm…) then where does his fit in this egyptian mythical love triangle.  Back to the wiki entry for Taweret we read:

When paired with another deity, she became the demon-wife of Apep, the original god of evil. Since Apep was viewed as residing below the horizon, and only present at night, evil during the day then was envisaged as being a result of Taweret’s malfeasance

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As the hippopotamus was associated with the Nile, these more positive ideas of Taweret allowed her to be seen as a goddess of the annual flooding of the Nile and the bountiful harvest that it brought. Ultimately, although only a household deity, since she was still considered the consort of Apep, Taweret was seen as one who protected against evil by restraining it.

Okay, so who is Apep?

In Egyptian mythology, Apep (also spelled Apepi, and Aapep, or Apophis in Greek) was an evil demon, the deification of darkness and chaos (isfet in Egyptian), and thus opponent of light and Ma’at (order/truth), whose existence was believed from the Middle Kingdom onwards.

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As the personification of all that was evil, Apep was seen as a giant snake, crocodile, serpent, or in later years, in a few cases, as a dragon, leading to titles such as Serpent from the Nile, and Evil lizard.

As they say in the blogs, read the whole thing…  So White/Jacob/Sobek vs. Black/Smokey/Apep vying for the affections of The Island/Taweret.

So what do you think, a grand unification theory of LOSTiness proportions or epic FAIL?

Big 100th LOST episode tonight (if the big O doesn’t talk to much, and give the other talking heads time to repeat the words he utters and gush about what a great Pres we’s gots – so put a DVR buffer at the end of the hour, just incase)

The Variable will be a Daniel Faraday centric episode, which falls on the heels of the Miles centric Some Like it Hoth episode of two weeks ago.  Nice to see some love for the Freight-ies in the story telling, anything to not reincarnate Nikki and Paulo.

We’ve got some threads to tie up in these last few episodes of this season before we go into hibernation until January. (srsly, January?!)  Some of the things to remember going into tonight and then building to the finale called The Incident (anyone that digested the Hatch Map in the swan station during Lockdown will recall the importance of that phrase:

• Danny’s been absent from the disco-era group since Jack et al made it back.
• Danny had an out of time sequence feature in the opening scene for this season after Pierre Chang told the one worker not to dig any further near the Frozen Donkey Wheel.  Where does that fit into the timeline as we know it?  Already happened? Yet to come?
• The Lockdown map has the time of the Incident as 1985 (will we have another time jump to get from ‘77 to ‘85.
• CORRECTION: The Swan orientation was copyrighted 1980 and referred to the incident and need to press the button, so there was indeed an incident in this time frame the blastdoor map is referring to another incident in 85.
• Faraday and time loops generally go together, some are hinting at some resolution between Faraday and his mother Eloise.
• We still don’t know what prompted Hurley to get to the Ajira plane on time (that should be played out in the finale, unless we’ll be treated to a Hurley centric episode)
• The ‘what lies beneath the shadow of the statue’ group’s identity needs to be firmed up, who are Illana and Bram aligned with?  Not Ben or Widmore, who else are players in the game?

I was thinking about all the different group of sub-groups of people in Lost, and thought a nifty outline might be good. Some graphically oriented person might want to expanded into a really nifty Venn diagram.

Let’s try Chronological order:

• Black Rock Crew
• 1954 Others
• 1954 Army
• Dharma (circa 1977)
  • – Other infiltrators
  • – Circle of Trust
  • – Flight 316 Jumpers (Sawyer, Juliette…)
  • – Offspring (Miles, Charlotte)
• Others Dharma Era
• Post Purge ‘Dharma’ (Hatch survivors)
• Flight 316 People
  • Main Section
  • Tail Section
• Freighters
  • Naomi’s Team
  • Keamy’s Team
  • Ship’s Crew
• Ajira Airlines
  • Shadow of the Statue
  • Island Returners
    • 1977 Era
    • 2007
• Reanimated Personages (Christian, Locke)
  • Island Ghosts (Eko’s brother, Dave)
• Off Island Conspirators
  • Widmore
  • Hanso
  • Ben’s Supporters (Jan the Butcher)
  • Eloise

I’ve been a bit too nonchalant with my LOST recapping/theorizing.  Partly because I’ve been busy, and partly because I don’t know where to start.  Each episode this year has been excellent, a step above the off-focus season three.  Season three did move the story, but we’ve come along way since the first bonfires on the beach with the huge fuselage.  The finale did tie some strings together, and also unwound a bunch more knots in the Gordian bundle of Lost mythos.  The rest is long and distinguished, but may be spoilerish, so read under the fold only if you’ve seen the finale.

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