There are loads of debates on at the moment in regards to the newly revealed statue in the Lost finale, The Incident.
What is the statue? Why is it there? What Egyptian god does it represent and why?
In this post, I’ll attempt to offer an explanation for some of these questions, with reference to parts of the programme.
The first thing we know, is that the island is a catalyst for life. This is portrayed through the increased fertility of the Islands inhabitants and the ability to heal inhabitants imperfections.
With this in mind, if we take a look at the statue, and note down the parts of the statue which are obvious.
Firstly, we can see that the statue is holding two ankhs. We already know that it has 4 toes, and that it is probably female through the body structure and hair. We can see that the statue has a snout of some sort, with teeth. However, we are still yet to see the statue in its full frontal view, which leads me to believe that there is still something about this statue which we are yet to see.
The statue also has small roundish ears, and a circular hat.
From these clues alone, it leads me to match this statue with the Egyptian Goddess Taweret, not just because of the physical features of the statue, but also for the symbolic meaning of Taweret, and the role she played in Ancient Egyptology.
As you can see from the picture, the features match physically, but from a symbolic viewpoint, Taweret was the Goddess who watched over women during childbirth and pregnancy. This is consistent with the Islands main function, of being a catalyst for harmonious life.
It seems that, unlike traditional Egyptian God’s, the statue adopts features of Taweret, but not all of them. It has the body of a human, with the snout of a creature, whereas the traditional Ancient Egyptian God(desse)s had the bodies of their representing animal too. To me, this may mean that perhaps Jacob, in his human form, adopts properties of this ancient god, which could provide an answer to why Richards immortality is ‘because of Jacob’.
What is even more interesting, is that when 815 crashes on the island, it has not been possible for women to have children on the island for some unknown reason, for quite a long time. Could this be related to the destruction of the statue? Could the statue have been destroyed due to the island losing some of its properties due to the past being changed? Does Jacob live in the statue of Taweret because he represents life, nurture, creation and free will?
Written for LostBlog by Tom Wright of MindParade.com
