Jacob wove hieroglyphs into his tapestry. (" The Shape of Things to Come") (" Whatever Happened, Happened") (" Dead Is Dead") However, hieroglyphs were also used by other groups on the Island. Hieroglyphs also appear on the Temple, its wall, the Tunnels and Ben's secret room. The Lighthouse, which is inscribed with hieroglyphs, seems similar in design to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Classical World. The most prominent was a statue of Tawaret, a deity of protection in pregnancy and childbirth, whose ruins remain to this day. The Egyptians may have built, or at least used, a number of other important Island structures. (" There's No Place Like Home, Part 3") (" This Place Is Death") It is unknown whether the Egyptians completed the wheel mechanism, but they visited and inscribed the chamber prior to 1867, for Locke entered the chamber in a time when the statue of Taweret was still visible. (" Across the Sea") However, when Ben turned the wheel in 2004, and Locke did so at an unknown time, the wheel had been mounted and its mechanism completed, and the chamber has been inscribed with hieroglyphs. When Mother killed the intruders and filled in the well where the Man in Black was building the frozen wheel, the walls of the underground chamber were blank and the wheel was not yet put into place. The Egyptians were active on the Island after Mother slaughtered Claudia's people, Jacob became the Island's protector, and the Man in Black was transformed into the Monster. Any discussion of Egyptian mythology in Lost should be prefaced, however, with the warning that the Egyptian pantheon comprises over five thousand years of cultural evolution, and various gods were defined and worshiped differently depending on the time and place as well as the balance of power among the different city-states that made up Egypt.Įvidence suggests that at some point a group of ancient Egyptians, or at least sharing traditions and practices with ancient Egypt, lived on the Island. At some point at least some of them left the Island for unknown reasons, and their society disappeared.Īside from these glimpses into the Island's past, Lost contains other allusions to Egypt. They presumably constructed the Statue of Taweret and other Island monuments, encountered previous versions or the current Man in Black version of the Monster, and left a number of hieroglyphic inscriptions. The Temple wall's hieroglyphs in (" This Place Is Death").Įvidence throughout Lost suggests that a group with a strong cultural relation to Ancient Egypt lived on the Island either before or after Jacob became protector of the Island, and before the arrival of the Black Rock. For Egyptian broadcast and fan information, see Egypt.
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