Any connection between symbols on head and SJ pods?

hahaha thats the internet for you :) They would have known before posting these images that someone, [i]somewhere[/i] would try deciphering the text ! could there be all sorts of cleverly hidden easter eggs there.. Thats what I would have done if I were them.

I agree Centurian. It is our job to find those Easter Eggs.

So looking at this picture, I have to ask the very obvious question: Why are you looking for easter eggs in the symbols instead of gawking at the first clear look we've gotten at that bio-mechanic humanoid figure standing and holding something next to what seems to be the "pilot" chair, which is unoccupied!! That figure looks the right size in perspective with the chair, as opposed to the humans that look small as hell next to it. Looks like maybe that's our "Space Jockey", and like it's about to climb into the chair, molding into it or some shit, which would confirm that the elephant-looking thing we saw in Alien was actually a suit. Thoughts?

i agree wholeheartedly, that guy is gunning for the chair, in the short time you see the clip he's focused on it...it's his

I'm already past the point of believing this guy IS the space jockey. Furthermore I believe he is already infected with whatever is going to burst out of him. He is being 'driven' to do what he is doing by whatever is inside him. It is beyond his control. Yes, he will connect with the sexually amorphous bio-suit, thanks to HR Giger, and complete the next phase of the life cycle. What was the image on the original Alien poster? The egg that started it all. What's on this poster? Ridley knows what he's doing. I think we will see the SJ as the facilitator of the needs of a greater entity. The mystery of that greater entity will remain, and so it should. But, I digress.... how about them symbols....?

Yeah, the SJ is old news in that pic. As for the symbols, they're definitely the same language, whatever their purpose is. Beyond that, we don't know, unless it's actually based off something like Sanskrit and can be translated, which I think is unlikely.

The writing in the top picture definitly looks like cuneiform, which is the oldest written language found on Earth circa 3,000BC I think. That would tie in with the fact the SJ's had something to do with our planet being "seeded" perhaps. . .

Beyond the obvious... does anyone notice that the walls look too "clean" in the picture? Yes, I think he is getting ready to meld with the p

Pilots seat. Somewhere along the way a xeno will be born and that room will be transformed into a part of the hive. Rewatch Alien, the room will be covered in xeno secretions and look totally different.

Lyle, I agree with you on cuneiform, it was a stylus written language, But it actually went back 6,000years BC. Please see [url=http://www.ask.com/wiki/Dispilio_Tablet?qsrc=3044]Dispilio Tablet[/url] It was carbon dated to 6K BC. I'm not taking away from the Sumerians they're curently the oldest known civilization that lived on earth, and alot of laws we currently have are derived from Sumerian Law. If you look at a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sumerian_26th_c_Adab.jpg]Sumerian Tablet[/url] you will find clear evidence that there are very close similarities with the writing on the head, the chair/map room and the tablet I linked. Regards, Rick

Thanks Rick. Fascinating! Those ancient tablets you point to are indeed very similar to the symbols on the SJ pods and face. So glad you pointed that out. Awesome! This is just the right amount of complementing information (SJ pods + head symbols), that I would expect from a Ridley Scott movie dealing with 'ancient aliens'. God...Only 128 more days.... I'm going to burst...LOL...

What I'm curious about is does he exit from one of those pods?! And does the pod hold some sort of significance to preparing him for the chair?! I posted a topic about a Giger painting that I came across that might somehow be related to this scene possibly?! Here's the painting again... [IMG]http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n484/ThunderOdin25/BiomechanicsHRGiger.jpg[/IMG]

GF, They look like they could be cryotubes or just enlarged conduits when you look at the chair room pic. Regards, Rick

@Rick, you might be right either way. I do find it interesting that the blue guy has lots of similarities to whatever the humanoid is in that old Giger painting! If that is so then I'm happy that Sir Ridley is making use of some of Giger's unused work done during the time of ALIEN. Prometheus could really end up being amazingly throw back awesome and refreshingly new at the same time!

GF, You know I'm seeing the referential curve to the derelict in the upper right of the pic. a xeno head in the upper left in the background, numerous egg references through out the painting, the tendrils are very reminiscent of the facehugger fingers, and the what looks like torso's coming up out of the center so remind me of Ripley 1-7 in A:R Regards, Rick

In the writing, i think there is some sort of code. A language is based on different symbols, or letters, repeating themselves in order to be identified as words. As this symbol repeats, i suppose we could assume it is a language, but in order to decipher ot we need more symbols.

And also i found it is not cuneiform. Cuneiform creates wedge shaped writing, there are circles in this writing. Perhaps our awesome Elizabeth Shaw can enlighten us... In over 100!days!

That Giger painting spelt out the idea of Prometheus the titan for me long before the film was ever named that , for some reason

Isn't that the head of a space jockey like the one in alien, in the pod below the blue guy? looks to me that's a translucent window toward the right end of the pod, and inside that I think it looks like the head of the jockey in alien, with it's large mouth open. Is it just me?

@pjr; it could be a head, difficult to tell.....