Schleicher's Fable & David's Approach to LV-223 before Landing

I was watching Prometheus one more time and at 10:30 running time into the movie I noted the specific reference to "Schleicher's Fable". I checked it out on the Web. Please see the web link: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleicher%27s_fable]Schleicher's fable[/url] 'The Sheep and the Horses' '[On a hill,] a sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: "My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses." The horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool." Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain.' I find it very intersting that a reference to a purely academic fable was made in a mass distributed movie. Is this a clue? Well, the fable is real, as is the author. Reading the Wikipedia page tells us that this linguist had developed the theory of languages evolving before Darwin (without using the 'evolution'; word but the concept). Schleicher was also an expert (like the linguist in the movie) as expert in the proto-language. Does this fable have a context in the movie? Are the sheep & horses the humans and engineers, respectively? Are the master the Deacon or the "gods"? I don't know. MAy be this refence is just background and not a clue but I thought this forum maybe abke to figure that out (greater minds than me etc.) This fable also echoes to me, the attitude of David prior to landing. He comments that 'there is nothing in desert and no man needs nothing'. This tells me that he is fully aware that the etntire crew is framing the upcoming encounter in purley anthropmorphic experiences. Whereas David has analyzed the situation objectively using his IQ of 350! He has realized that if there is anya ctive alein technology/presence on LV-223 then it will be dangerous becuase it is alien. Simply, we have no experince or understanding of what they need, what they have built becuase it it outside of knowledge. I wonder if Schleicher adn Nitschke ever met or is there a link? Both were German and around in the middle of the nineteenth century. *Link made clickable by Svanya