Prometheus concept and xenomorph origins: stronger emphasis on psychology than w
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rakshasa
MemberOvomorphApril 21, 20121565 Views27 Replies
Maybe the goo from the urns has the capacity to materialize the thoughts, emotions, desires, fears of an intelligent being, turning these into matter. The telescope from the SJ chair is a tool used by him to channel and project at long distances his reason and desire in order to terraform, create life, materialize the goo in a rational order of things. The urns are placed around a stone head, meaning that they are inactive as the stone head symbolizes the absence of thoughts, desires, etc. But then intelligent (human) beings come near the urns. The wall with the shifting images is a detector/indicator of their psychological operations. The mural reproduces representations of the humans' fears, emotions, imagination. But humans are not so disciplined and able to control their thoughts and emotions as the SJs. On an alien planet, because their lack of knowledge, humans' psychic is dominated by fears and thoughts of terrifiying creatures, a disturbed imagination amplified by a surrounding unfamiliar to them. Hence an alien is born, bearing corresponding to man's most repressed fears and representations: the chestburster is a phallic creature, the facehugger "rapes" and impregnates, its blood is all-consuming, the two moths makes it all-devouring, the lack of eyes means it has no soul etc.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God...God also said: Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done." Must add that "Word" is a translation for the hebrew "wisdom" or the greek "logos", meaning reason.











