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Giger's Necronom V (the main inspiration) could be based on that.
I also remember of some old French book,I forgot its name but I remember the cover of it having some old man sitting on the ground, looking throught the telescope with some boiler on his back and some tube going from the boiler to his beard,thats simmilar to the SJ design.
"Abs are not a sign of power, it's just a sign you don't eat enough."-JF Caron
More Egyptian references:
Here's some Greek/Roman reference from the set of AC that I just noticed.
Those walls and temple with humanoids climbing do look very Egyptian,Mayan and Greek.
Well the Engineers did come to Earth and taught humans alot of things like building temples etc.Weren't they?
"Abs are not a sign of power, it's just a sign you don't eat enough."-JF Caron
Indeed i remember there was some other references from Ancient Cultures that are similar to the Space Jockey. This could be just coincidence however.. but regardless when Prometheus picked up with the Space Jockey/Engineers being who Mankind interpreted as Ancient Gods from all Cultures then these references could now fit and even be explored upon.
There are a lot of similar themes in man ancient cultures which also include the Serpent/Dragon being depicted and the Eagle.
Here are some Mayan pieces that you could connect to the Space Jockey.
And this image next is similar to some Giger Work
I think you know the one, the Serpent with Xeno ish head in the chair that may inspired the Hammerpedes
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some Carvings taken from Mayan Gods, that have been recreated via Wood and Stone Carvings.
These are actual carvings made to depict ancient Mayan Gods, and i am sure you could make a Engineer Connection, and also maybe Sacrificial Cup that creates Life... and also look at the Hat/Helmet and other elements... very Xenomorph you would agree.
Yet these are just coincidence surely... but since Prometheus went the route it did all these Ancient things can now fit into context of actual Engineer and Xeno Tech references.
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Diving suit drawn by Hans Talhoffer back in the 15th century for the Thott manuscript
Yeah its interest and fun that we can find Ancient things that we could fit into Prometheus Movie Plot ;)
You could interpret this image as being Engineers and Creation, or even the Race above the Engineers who created them and the Top.. well like the Star Map/Orrey Room LOL
I wander if we are getting a re-design on the Hierachy above the Engineers that may have elongated heads?
Some of the Prometheus Concepts, well work done while the first drafts was being done did feature such designs with the Engineers.
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The Engineer temple
Mayan temple
The head
The African statue of Mussolini's head
Egyptian Sphinx
Humanoids on the steps of the temple
Victims of Pompeii
The rest of the ruins
And I could go on forever
"Abs are not a sign of power, it's just a sign you don't eat enough."-JF Caron
Indeed Dark Nebula some good comparisons and the Steps at the Scene of Disaster and then the Mayan Temple is a good point and could be the steps to a very similar Temple.
I did a Topic Called Paradise that was to cover mainly the look of Paradise from not only its lush environments that are very Tropical Rain Forest meets more Wooded Land Forest like Endor lol...
In this Topic i also posted Mayan Temples that had now been partially covered within the Jungle and Vegetation and some of these are under so much Vegetation that many had gone years without being discovered.
To me the set photos showed we would uncover more about the Engineers Culture and Civilization or at least the ruins of it.
The statues due have that Greek look to them but i would assume our Engineer Statues will remain Bald.
And so this image that Facehuggers posted fits the bill very much for how that toppled and headless Statue would have looked and indeed also how the beings in that Scene of Disaster Looked.
I think this scene is interesting one, as some speculated its very Pompeii.... and so maybe people discover just the remains of Petrified Engineers that this Scene shows... i.e they are Frozen in time like the Pompeii ones .... they was due to hot ash etc.... and its a wander what would cause the same to those beings in Alien Covenant..
I however am on the side of the fence that wanders if this is a action shot, and not a still.. First of all if it was a still they would have be best to use props and not Actors/Actresses etc. But some of the positions in the other scenes could be hard to position standing still... but they could be Props still that are bolted to the ground.
However what would be the purpose of this scene unless it was something discovered by David or the Covenant Crew which then we have to wander about the Scale... If these are Engineers then having Props with Humans walking near them would not work for the scale of the Engineers who was revised to 10ft for Prometheus but of course we only got 8ft Tops impression.
But if they are Props they could be made larger... but then looking at these beings and actual people on set (Production Crew) in some of the images... these beings are Human Height but maybe they could be a earlier kind of Human?
I think this is going to be a flash back scene myself, and i still hope it would feature Action in some way... another thing is if it was the remains of beings killed even within 10 years of the Covenant arriving never mind thousands of years ago, we have to ask what means would make them become preserved like statues?
If the movie is revolving around the Black Goo, this does not add up to a disaster that can leave bodies frozen solid for years if not thousands.
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