Alien Life cycle and Original Facehugger on Mural

I wonder if the flowering crest emmenating from the Deacon figure is the film makers offering an easter egg of the alien Queen from Aliens as her crest grows out from atop her head when Ripley first sees her down under the atmospheric processors. [img]http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/4889/64206206.jpg[/img] I have drawn some lines trying to emphasise this, there are some writings from someone elses contibution to this idea as they suggest that perhaps it may be a symbol of an egg as well as other shapes there, facehuggers lower down and scaraficial individuals but I am suggesting the idea here soely about the alien Queens top head crest shape. [img]http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9682/60480561.jpg[/img] The pink and green liens at top were drawn by someone else as were these just above the words you read now, I just felt that the individuals whom both took the time to observe these apparantly hidden shapes right in front of our noses deserve a little bit of credit as I admire that kind of a keen eye for detail as a few others have displayed here upon the site over the recent build up to the release of Prometheus.

This is another potential comparioson with the queens crest as opposed to the murial shape that may depict it as nothing more than just an easter egg perhaps. Perhaps more. [img]http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1381/oo1w.jpg[/img]

I've thought about this and I don't think this mural/sculpture was something the Engineers worshiped. I recently saw a fan-made 'Know Your Enemy' poster for Starship Troopers and I wonder if it's something like that for the Engineers.

Wow - so they spent WEEKS to work on this nice mural - and in the movie they show it a half second, and it does not deliver anything to the story, just feeds some speculations (is it the symbol for devil, or is it engineers god, or is it just an engineers poster for an alien movie in the engineers cinema?). And now WE (the audience) have to spend MONTH on speculation what this all could mean. Haha. Well, if you ask me, this is crap - but you dont ask. haha Btw... i dont think ridley wants the alien queen from aliens2 in "HIS" Alien universe, as that was was a "CAMERON"-idea... So the comparison of the mural with the aliens queen is obsolent... it means something else, or maybe its just decoration and means nothing at all? Or it means that what YOU think it means? Or it means everything? Or it simply means that this is a crappy movie? Yeah, last one seems most plausible to me...

There appears to be a much more ancient history and relationship between the engineers and the xenomorph. Here on earth, there seems to be a rule of life that if a life form, like a parasite or disease, destroys the host or symbiote that it depends upon, then it will destroy itself. Not on an individual basis, but as a life form. The xenomorph seems to do this. It seems to pretty much totally wipe out life forms that are even remotely advanced. At least up to the point of mammals. So it then leaves eggs behind. But unless you are talking in really extreme time scales, this is suicidal to the life form of the xenomorph. I mean maybe in a few billion years another life form will happen upon the eggs, and if they are still viable, the cycle begins anew. But this seems pretty chancy. But here on earth, a parasitical life form like a bacteria or something may eventually develop, along with it's host(s) to where they can co-exist, neither destroying the other. They may even become symbiotes. So now if the engineers are still around, but have been co-existing with the xenomorph for long enough that they don't totally kill eachother off, that could be an explanation as to why they are still there, and why that relationship would be such a part of their culture as to have murals depicting the xenomorph life cycle. For instance, mud wasps and spiders. Mud wasps sting spiders and paralyze them, haul them off to their nests, lay eggs on them, and seal them off waiting for the egg to hatch and eat the spider. Both species thrive, and spiders are deathly afraid of the wasps. The engineers may have developed in some way, possibly technologically, possibly biologically, so that they can resist being rendered extinct by the xenomorph. That would not mean that the engineers would welcome being implanted or eaten, they would still be deathly afraid of it. And they also would likely recognize the potential of the xenomorph for xenocide. So they could develop technology to create delivery systems for the xenomorph. But, oops, it got out. That puff of air from the engineer's CDC [url=http://articles.cnn.com/2012-06-21/politics/politics_bio-germ-investigation_1_air-leak-lab-work-biosafety-level?_s=PM:POLITICS] CDC leak...[/url] section just wiped the engineers out. Sometimes a parasite can get introduced into a new strain of a species and wipe it out, since it does not have the resistance to the parasite or disease that the other strain has. An example would be the American Indians and smallpox. The europeans were more resistant to it, but the indians tended to be wiped out by it. Some of the europeans even used it as a weapon against the indians. If the xenomorph had been introduced to the earth 2,000 years before the setting of the movie, man and other mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, possibly everything except plants would likely be extinct. Or new life forms might have evolved that could resist or symbiotically co-exist with the xenomorph. Also, the engineers could actually be symbiotes of the xenomorph. It could be hardwired into the engineers to spread the xenomorphs. Anyway, a I think it's a great movie and a great story, and as with any great story, it leaves you with opportunity to participate and create part of it for yourself.">There appears to be a much more ancient history and relationship between the engineers and the xenomorph.