http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/lost/lost-statue-unmasked-841.html

My best guess is that if it is an Egyptian God it’s probably the lesser known cat god BAST,

I’m almost finished with a fun post about Atlantis. I’m gonna continue working on it tonight, so it should be up by morning.

I have to say that Lost always tickles the student in me… Last night I felt like I was researching a paper for my Rise of Religious cult class. Made me pine for my college days as an Anthro student. So as such I had a little bit of a leg up… along with the fact that I’ve studied a lot of goddess based religions on my own as part of my belief system. I’ve also got several Isis and Bastet statues in my house… that my cat’s name is Charles Osiris.

I agree with the above statements that there will be a melding of world religions/philosophies in the future. I think that the name Horace doesn’t have to do with the god Horus but with the Roman poet Horace. During the Roman Empire Tunisia was known as ‘the bread basket’ of the empire. Also, The Romans adopted aspects of the Goddess based religions (The cults of Cybele and Isis) but eventually sort of bastardized paganism they skewed things more toward the masculine. And when Constantine became emperor, they began dismantling all things pagan.
I keep thinking that Horace forever chopping down that tree (as well as blowing up other trees) must be symbolic for something.
So then I was looking up the symbolism of trees and found: “In ancient times, the goddess Asherah was known as the “Queen of Heaven.” She was worshipped by many civilizations in the Middle East.
One of the Symbols most closely associated with her was a tree, the ancient Canaanites and Pheonicians viewed the tree as a symbol of fertility. ”
That let me to look up Asherah where at which point I began to get a headache because it was at this point when I started to realize that all of these goddesses and gods were adopted by so many different religions it is mind boggling. I was trying to get a clear shot from A to B and it was impossible. But there is a pretty convoluted connection between Asherah and Sekhmet via Hathor.

Okay… I’m getting myself confused. I’ll leave it up to you John… I’m going to hand my Lemming Leading crown over to you now. It comes with a lifetime supply of turtle wax… so enjoy!

Now I realize I shouldn’t have been such a fuckoff in my first year of college. My art history professor was an Egyptologist (and Jehova’s Witness) and I can feel him scolding me with just his stare right now.

At the risk of sounding like a sheep, I think I’ll have to fall in line here with Pauline as well. I think she’s got it. I suppose being a sheep isn’t all that bad. I mean even if we were lemmings and she was leading the way, at least we wouldn’t be running around in circles and mucking about. Pauline would lead us to the most direct path off the cliff.

Cheers!

But good work people on the stuff I hadn’t considered.

And yeah, that’s exactly what I was getting at in my post Lost Theories Pt. 2. Plato got his version of Atlantis from the Egyptians… who in turn got it from their ancients. All playing into the same set of myths. My post for next week will go into even more of that.

As for which statue it is…well we may or may not find out. But I think, if there’s one Egyptian God/Goddess, chances are there are more. Ra, Anubis, Horus, Sekhmet, Set… they probably all are playing into it. And Atlantis can still be part of it, since the greeks and romans and egyptians and christianity all borrowed elements from each others cultures to create their own mythology.

One question though: it seems to me that that statue has to be older than Dharma. Could it have been erected by the others/hostiles? After all, the others are the ones with fertility problems — just because Dharma women don’t have fertility problems in 1977, doesn’t mean the native islanders/others/hostiles don’t already have fertility problems. I don’t really know what um talking about, just spitballing here.

Your findings are great, and certainly at the front of the Lost Theories pack. Be proud.

To risk sounding like a freak… as a pagan I’ve worked with Sekhmet energy before as well as other goddesses of life/death and warrior goddesses and I just had a feeling. Then after doing a bit more research on Archaeology sites… it just fit. Personally, I was thrilled at the idea of a female god since it has been largely men on the island who have been running the show. (though most of the women who have survived on the island are indeed warrior type women.)

I was first thrown off by the sun disk that she is always pictured wearing but I found that most often the statues of her were without while carved images of her on walls and such showed her wearing one. The image you came up with is great. I hadn’t seen that.

Something else that is kind of interesting that I thought about last night. Sekhmet is all about duality. She has both good and bad attributes. We also saw this in deity form with the Virgin Mary statues. Think about it. Beautiful virgin outsides with nasty heroin-filled centers.

I was kinda bummed after i posted this because I did another search to see if she tied into the smoke monster and up came some other google results with other lost fans thinking about Sekhmet. Here I thought I was alone in my theory. sigh.