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Lost episode synopsis reveals identity of four-toed statue

by Jason Hughes, posted May 28th 2009 2:02PM
Statue of Tawaret from 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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son of jacob

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

May 29 2009 at 7:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
son of jacob

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

May 29 2009 at 6:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ðan

HECK I just want to know what lies in the dang shadow of the statue LOL

May 29 2009 at 4:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ðan

HECK I just want to know what lies in the shadow of the dang statue LOL

May 29 2009 at 4:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kris

Michael Emerson also seemed to believe it to be Taweret.

May 29 2009 at 2:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan C

"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.

May 29 2009 at 12:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
srangel351

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.

May 28 2009 at 8:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BillS

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.

May 28 2009 at 3:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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ac

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.

May 28 2009 at 2:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Logan

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.

May 28 2009 at 3:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Wayne

The statue was already destroyed in 1974. We don't know when it was destroyed.

May 29 2009 at 10:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gordon Werner

Pregnant women only seemed to die AFTER the statue was destroyed ...

May 28 2009 at 2:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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