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mertber

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This was taken from a comment I saw on another site, and I did a little research and everything seems to check out! : To give some historical/mythological background that may shed some light, Ridley stated the SJ culture was based on Persian Myths. This would be Sumerian/Akkadian/Hindu. This is all taken from the Atra Hasis. Creators - "G"ods- Annunaki - Dragon Humanoids (Naga, Dragon Kings,) Helpers - "g"ods - Igigi - Engineers. (Android like living beings....BIOmechanical humanoid. Key features- Pale skin and large black eyes. Also known as watchers, Grigori, and Archons) (in many summerian texts they are actually referred to as "Pilots". Pretty much the Annunaki Air Force.) When the Annunaki began terraforming the earth, they had the Igigi do the work for them. After a few thousand years the Igigi revolted and went on strike. The Annunaki then decided to create humans to do the work for them. They sacrificed one of the rebel Igigi named Geshtu to use his blood and dna to make human beings, by mixing it with elements native to the earth. (In the movie, this can be explained by the the different oval spaceship at the beginning representing the spaceship of the Annunaki) (It can also be explained by the concept art that leaked from the official book this week) (According to wikipedia it also says this about the Igigi: [i]"Though sometimes synonymous with the term "Annunaki," in one myth the Igigi were the younger gods who were servants of the Annunaki, until they rebelled and were replaced by the creation of humans."[/i] [b]This is reflectled exactly in the concept art below![/b]) [img]http://i.imgur.com/mXLlK.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.imgur.com/AcThF.jpg[/img] Even though the humans were created and did the work, 1/3 of the Igigi still werent satisfied and sought revenge for Geshtu, so they rebelled again against the Annunaki Lords and began breeding/mixing with the human females creating Nephelim. This is what sparked the Prime Lord Enlil to flood the earth. Some humans were saved by Enki, the Lord responsible for the sacrifice of Geshtu and the creation of humans. Enlil and the rest of the annunaki decide to return home and let the humans develop on their own. Enki and his family stay behind. The Igigi are forced to leave earth as well. The remaining rebel Igigi are imprisoned on a planet on the way back to the homeworld and it is said as punishment and as a mark they are altered into a demonic appearance, no longer retaining the Angelic appearance. Enki and his crew are probably the ones leaving the maps for humans to find, along with the ones helping humans advance throughout time. The sacrfice engineer is Geshtu The lone engineer is most likely Marduk or a servant/worshipper of Marduk. The xeno is Mushussu, a creature Marduk fashioned and used as his pet. The "Engineers" we see are trying to destroy Earth are of the Igigi rebels who view earth as their own. They have always despised humans because the Annunaki saw us as more in their likeness than them. IT's possible that the Igigi have long since destroyed or taken over the annunaki and the homeworld, and Earth was like going to claim the prize or spoils. They mustve used to the Xeno's to win this war and through its perfection it has began to destroy and infect the Igigi who manufacture and transport it, creating more Mushussu. the xeno in Alien is most likely an older pilot igigi birthed Mushussu egg crossed with human or a future Annunaki birthed one which would explain the size difference in hosts. It is mentioned in several lesser stories that Marduk created the Mushussu out of using the essence of the Gods' (Annunaki) he killed as a symbol of his conquering and being able to control them... ie the mural. [img]http://www.prometheus-movie.com/media/concept001.jpg[/img]
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Great theory & probably the closest - you don't have to by into the works of Chariots of the Gods etc, but it's what Ridley has stated the film is influenced by... It's Ancient Sumerian I think - not Greek... The 2nd film will be the "Empire strikes back" of the series - more epic and darker...
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ALSO, at the opening scene - the sacrifice seems to be being watched by the huge saucer UNTIL he ingests the black goo... Like the master was watching the slave - making sure they carry out their mission...
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Wow! What an incredible read!!! "LOOOOOVVVVEEEEEEE IIIITTTT!!!!! i was also very aware of this as regarding the annunaki..etc.....just didn't get enough of it in the film for me....to lead us somewhere....within THIS film i mean...great work A+ :)" QFT!
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Im pretty sure you nailed it it just makes too much sense.
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Please don't everyone beat me up, but check this video [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbRlMn4UpeU&feature=related]video[/url] out. It is just very topical to why movies and media keep bringing up the ideas. SciFi and art are a way for us to test out new ideas before we get to them and see how we should act. There are some really interesting things mentioned in the Christian/Judeo bible about giant people and supernatural beings[demons] that try to fashion themselves as gods before man. If you take the bible account and follow the families that left to find new homes all over the world, the stories seem to have a common thread. Years of mans influence and not having them as only an oral tradition, you start getting talking animals and aliens[demons]. Supposedly their is an flood legend in almost every people if you look hard enough. The details are a bit fuzzy between the but all point to a single group of people being saved from calamity. Once again... I'm just saying, don't start trying to rip me a new one.
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Thanks for this post! Great food for thought. :)
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I've seen a still that seemed to be another Engineer in a suit in a deferential pose, maybe there's a caste system... ( more whistling )
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There is value on this post...good show for sharing. All stories have theri basis in something. As far as the movie goes, The goo is the star of the show. It is so unpreicable that no one knows what it will do. but they found out one thing...if you mix goo with sperm and egg in a human...out comes ALIEN...one of the worst lifeforms to any race....thats all I know
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Hello, All! I don't know about the story written in the first part of the thread but I thought I would through my 2 cents in. The geologist who went crazy. Why would he go crazy but not the geologist? Where did the snakey looking aliens come from? Remember the worms from when the people were walking? I think the worms were the first to become hosts to the bioweapon. Hence we see the snakey looking aliens. So why didn't the crazy Scottish geologist have something pop out of his head. Presumably Mr. Scott (a.k.a. Fifield) didn't become a host because of the massive damage he suffered from the acid. The ooze interacted with his bollod because of the wound and voila, we have something like a zombie running around. The snakey looking aliens were the result of the ooze making hosts out of the worms. The better the host, the better the resulting alien. I can't remember which Alien movie it was but the alien came out of a dog host and the resulting alien was dog-like. I think the purpose behind the propagation of our species was to form a good stock for the bioweapon. By using us, the Engineers would have an excellent bioweapon that was controllable. Granted, as I write this, I am thinking of more questions. Also, I suspect that the Engineers may have a collective conscious. Someone asked why they looked so perfect? They are presumably perfect by comparison to us.
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Interesting thoughts Dev&Char4ever; the Alien with the dog host was Alien 3 right? Someone in another thread mentioned the writer of the film stating that the black goo was a plot device to do whatever he needed, but I like your thinking better haha.
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Want to do more research? Are you sure you can handle some mind-blowing theories? Click below to begin your journey: [url=http://www.lloydpye.com/eykiw.htm]http://www.lloydpye.com/eykiw.htm[/url] I read it over a decade ago and had to put it down never to discuss it. The Earth simply is not ready for what very may well be the truth.
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The Earth will be fine my friend ( thanks Carlin ) it's us who seem to have some difficulty with thinking for half a second...
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The second film is going to show that there are multiple types of Engineers and that some have been playing a friendly role with Ancient Humans and some not so friendly. Through out all different cultures, they speak of Gods fighting a mighty battle in the heavens. Could this been two or more different Engineers battling for squatting rights for Earth? The Black Goo. Biohazzardous WMD. What if there were or are other types of Bio-Engineered goo. Some that rapidly advances the evolution of a planet's ecosystem? Check Cambrian Explosion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion All of the Engineers look the same. Are they Clones or Androids/Biomechanoids themselves, built by a higher Alien. The Annunaki?
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I dunno about Annunaki but I like the notion of a higher Xeno cult of some sort, now I'm going to listen to AC/DC...
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Yes this is what I was looking for. Thanks for posting this.
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Love it, Thanks, for the find!
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This is very similar to the theory I came up with about the film and how it could relate to Genesis as well. Geshtu and Adam would be one and the same- creating mankind. Some faction among the Engineers wanted to warn humanity through a story about Eve not to eat from the Tree of Knowledge (don't seek the truth about your origins), as sin would be created. The sin of course being the bio-weapon and the Face-hugger/Alien. Elizabeth Shaw is the films stand in for Eve, wanting to discover the origins of mankind. David is the stand-in for the Snake, causing through Holloway ingesting the black goo and impregnating Shaw for Sin to be born. The vases would therefore be the fruit from the tree of knowledge. This would give a deeper meaning as to why Shaw is devout in her faith and the interactions David has when seeing her cross.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuna Lots of interesting reading here, about the Gods, Demi-gods, etc... I can easily see this mythology as the starting point for the themes in this movie/series. Enjoy
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Excellent stuff and great background! I really appreciate your great effort, mertber. It makes perfectly good sense and is very well researched and presented in a simple and straight forward manner. Thanks again!
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This makes the most sense of any breakdown I've seen. From what we saw of the Engineers in the film there is no way that one of them would commit suicide to seed the Earth. It was a death sentence by a higher life form.

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