An idea on the Mural

Well i consider the green crystal to be fossilized xeno dna... stolen from the Elders (i.e. the stolen fire). The engineers were trying to recreate the xeno... but an accident (the dna being unstable) or rather "sabotage" occured. Maybe they managed to break down its dna in several components which when reunited gives 100% xeno dna: When Fifield's helmets gets splashed by the cobralien's blood nothing really happens. It's when he falls facedown in the black goo that the helmets starts to melt. It's the combination of these 2 substances which creates "acid blood". Any thoughts?

We really DON'T KNOW ANYTHING, do we? It's like with LOST, no one knew anything for as many series' as it lasted. That's what Lindelof does, starts, not finishes. Threads, not tie-offs. Intrigue, not narrative. Sorry, we can guess all we want, but at some point either Linda's either gonna admit, "I have no f***ing idea," what Prometheus is about or he's gonna (himself or someone else preferably) have to get round to the task of 'telling us' what we've just seen by making an ESP or Explanatory Sequel to Prometheus. LOL-but a desperate, plaintive, sobbing LOL.

I'm starting to think the xeno's are the engineers pets and we have only seeing the ones who have been infected with the black goo. This could make the mural the engineers version of the dogs playing poker painting....

Oh, oh, oh, additionally, when the 'engineer patting xeno on head' mural/sculpture started to DISSOLVE under Shaw's torchlight, "they're changing," does anyone remember if the same fate befell the Alien Mural on the big entrance door/altar thingy? Are these post-human-infestation-of-chamber shots of the space where the Giger-refential (i.e. BLATANT PREQUELISM) Alien Mural used to be? Did the door go smooth? Anybody?

Anybody?

Free, No, the mural did not change. I have the digital dowload and have watched it, & the deleted scenes like 5 times already! :-)

Well i have taken a number of clues in the movie and what Ridley said. We see the Sacrificial Engineer drink from the Sacrificial Ceremonial Bowl that contains a substance that broke down his DNA and his broken down DNA mixed into the water and mutated most likely Bacteria already on the planet to then Evolve and become Advanced Life Forms.... which eventually leads to us and we can trace our DNA to contain Engineer DNA. The Xeno Mural is in a similar pose to Jesus on the Cross, now many Christians use the symbol o Christ on the Cross to represent their faith, they worship the image of Jesus on the Cross as their God. This could mean the Jesus like pose is intended to mean the Xeno is worshiped in some way. But then if we look at Jesus on the Cross what does it represent? Why dont many Christians simply have a image of Jesus, why do they have him on the Cross. Jesus allowed himself to be Crucified for our Sins, thus the image of him on the cross is to remind us of his SACRIFICE. If we look at it like that then the take that the Xeno is depicted in the same way as a Mural to Xeno SACRIFICE. Then where else have we seen Sacrifice in this movie? The Sacrificial Scene. And as Svana said Originally in the Trailer and Post Edit the Xeno Mural had the same Sacrificial Ceremonial Bowl the Sacrificial Engineer had drank from in front of it. So what if the Xeno Christ Pose is like Christs in that it represents Xeno Sacrifice and it had the Sacrificial Bowl in front of it, we know the Sacrificial Engineer had Sacrificed his body to seed life. What connection can be made via... XENO MURAL IN SACRIFICIAL POSE CEREMONIAL BOWL IN FRONT OF MURAL SACRIFICIAL ENGINEER AND THE BOWL Well we know the Engineer was Sacrificed by the substance in the Bowl to break down into a substance that contained his DNA that mutates and evolves basic life on Earth to Evolve in complex life that contains Engineer DNA. The only real Xeno thing we see apart from the Mural is the substance in the Urns that mutates life forms so they take on Xeno DNA, like how the substance within the Water contained Engineer DNA after being broken down from the Sacrificial Engineer via the substance within the Bowl. Thus.... The Mural shows that the Xeno was Sacrificed via the same method the Sacrificial Engineer was to create the Bio Weapons within those Urns. Now thats just my theory and it may have holes. The Temple was going to be Paradise for Mankind with a Mural of our Creators Head the Giant Head which will remind us of the Sacrifice of the Engineer made to create us. We upset the Engineers and would no longer worship them in the way they wanted and we was doing things that offended them and thus they then changed this Paradise to then be a Testing and Research Facility to create a Bio Weapon to Destroy us. Thus the Head of the Creator Statue, that was meant for us now sees instead another Mural that it to show off what they used to create the Bio Weapons within that complex.

And maybe Ridley Scott wanted to change the Sacrificial act into something else, and deleted the scenes that might compromise this change, and thus we will see it was not a sacrifice, but rather a punishment of sorts...[/b] [b]I am more fond of that concept os Sacrificial Engineer and all, as the whole sacrificial scene is a poor handling of the seeding concept, and could work more efficiently if it was a different thing altogheter, especially given the attitude we see on that alien in that scene...or those aliens are true artificial toos used to many tasks, including seeding worlds (that would make a sound plot, which could lead to the conflict underlying the Alien concept since Movie One) [b]And again I hope the Queen is gone for good...awfull cliche thing that sped up the poisoning of the whole franchise[/b]

Ooohh I like this theory...The engineer is laying down?reclined with the biomorphic beast in the painting and the beast is crouching down to his level in earnst but deceptive? Who's worshipping who?

. . . I doubt they are going to erase the fragraments of Alien we see in Prometheus. This film is about the Engineers IN ORDER to teach us more about the xenomorphs. The reason why fans and critics were dissappointed is because the writing strayed away from that. Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbenger are helping Scott produce Paradise because of it.