Weyland Myth

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MemberOvomorphOctober 15, 20122888 Views10 RepliesI found this video at YouTube pretty interesting.
PROMETHEUS 2 - PARADiSE
http://youtu.be/gcb-R7Khf84
I found this info about Hephaestus with a little Googling
Hephaestus was the Greek god of technology, blacksmiths, craftsmen, artisans, sculptors, metals, metallurgy, fire and volcanoes. Hephaestus' Roman equivalent was Vulcan. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Zeus and Hera, the King and Queen of the Gods.
Hephaestus also built automatons of metal to work for him. This included tripods that walked to and from Mount Olympus. He gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to man from Hephaestus's forge. Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to man, the woman Pandora and her pithos. Being a skilled blacksmith, Hephaestus created all the thrones in the Palace of Olympus.
Hephaestus helped to create the first woman, with the assistance of other gods, after Zeus had ordered that there be a new kind of human. Zeus plotted against Prometheus because he and his race of mortals had only included one gender, which was male, and so Hephaestus formed the first woman from clay. Her name was Pandora (all gifts) and from a supernatural jar, she released the evils of the world on mankind.
What I found so interesting about this is the Norse equvalent of Hephaestus. In Norse mythology, Weyland the Smith was a lame bronzeworker.
Weyland! Get it? There are similarities between Weyland and the engineers. They created us and Weyland created the robots. Norse god, Iceland, Noomi Rapace, engineers that look Norse, etc...
The origin of the jockey creature was not explored in the film, but Scott later theorized that it might have been the ship's pilot, and that the ship might have been a weapons carrier capable of dropping Alien eggs onto a planet so that the Aliens could use the local lifeforms as hosts. The engineers are weapons makers. Remember that Janek said the place was a military base, and that the engineers made something they shouldn't.
There are similar characters in other ancient stories. In the Bible there is Tubalcain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron. And in the I Enoch there is Azâzêl taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them.