Wow, I was really surprised by the reception to the first part of this post. Thanks guys!

It seems from the comments, though, many of you were hoping I would discuss the ancient artifacts a little more. Well maybe that hope was a premonition, because that’s exactly what I planned to do.

Okay, so let’s “flash” back even further into the Island’s past. And as a totally separate subject from my Black Rock Theory… let’s revisit some of the Island’s oldest remnants. And we’ll go Lemuria-style ancient with this one, yeah? Maybe we can string some of these together and make something out of them too.

1.) We all remember that giant, four toed foot statue, or rather that part of a statue, right? To me that seemed pretty ancient. You better believe when I saw that thing, I got up and started dancing. I loved it! And so began my archaeological fascination with the Island.

2.) How about that big stone pillar Locke’s dad was chained to… back when Ben proclaimed to The Others, “He’s not who we thought he was!”? Pretty ancient. The Others were on their way to the ‘safe place’ in that episode. And if you remember, that entire area was littered with pieces of ancient ruins.

3.) The ‘safe place’ the Others were headed is called The Temple. Ben tells Alex and Rousseau to flee there before Keamy’s men get them. Is The Temple another silly codename for a Dharma station? Or… an actual temple? A temple could certainly qualify as ancient.

4.) The strange door and tunnel that Ben goes into from his closet in Otherville… Remember? When he calls the Smoke Monster to attack Keamy’s soldiers? Ancient looking and covered in hieroglyphics.

5.) And actually hieroglyphics are something you see a lot of on this island. There was also one placed in the tree where Juliet was getting the medicine for Sun. As well as Egyptian Hieroglyphs on the Swan Station counter. As we all know, Hieroglyphics are an ancient form of written language made popular in our history books by the Egyptians.

6.) We certainly can’t forget about that crank Ben turns at the end of season 4? Okay, in fairness, it kind of looked like it was made of Styrofoam… but I think the intent was ancient… no? After all, there were some hieroglyphics down there.

7.) What about those polar bear fossils found in the Sahara. It’s not the Island, but it is ancient, right? Certainly ancient remains… but that Dharma collar? Hmmm. Okay, maybe half ancient?

8.) And lastly this island had an event in its past that I rarely hear fans talk about (although I don’t visit the message boards, so maybe these observations are all passé). It’s an event that could be very ancient, actually. Remember the scene in the Dharma classroom? The one with the Teacher doing the old baking soda volcano experiment? One of the kids compares it to an eruption on their island. The teacher says yes, it is similar… but that the Island’s eruption was “a long time ago”.

So how do these clues fit together? Aside from the fact that they all seem… do I really have to say it again? Ancient. Is the Island traveling through time picking up whatever chronological crap washes up on it’s shores? Or does this island have an ancient past? Meaning, do these ancient things belong to the island… to it’s original inhabitants? If so, who created them? How did they play into the lives of those people, that ancient culture?

Let’s start with the foot statue. What has four toes? For one, humans born with four toes have four toes… we usually call them mutants. Sometimes it’s a DNA thing… sometimes it’s Chernobyl. Ancient gods have four toes sometimes. Some animals have four toes… and better yet, some animal deities have four toes! And in the Ancient world, animal deities were all the rage. So were hieroglyphs, so were temples, and so were massive culture shattering, topography altering cataclysms like earthquakes, floods, and volcanoes.

Speaking of which, did you know that about 14,000 years ago the South Pacific looked very different than it does now? And did you know that apparent man-made structures and artifacts (dating back to the last ice age) have been found in those South Pacific waters?

So what if the secret history of The Island, is suppose to be some Lost history of the larger ancient world. One where an advanced civilization, capable of wondrous feats of science… disappears into the sea. Several cultures have myths about this very thing. Atlantis, Lemuria, Mu… In fact, Plato says he got his version of the story from the Egyptians… who in turn got it from the peeps before them…

And here’s how Plato describes the city portion of Atlantis:

“At the centre of the island, near the sea, was a plain, said to be the most beautiful and fertile of all plains, and near the middle of this plain about fifty stades inland a hill of no great size… There were two rings of land and three of sea, like cartwheels, with the island at their centre and equidistant from each other…”

If you’re having a hard time picturing what that might look like, here are a few different ways artists have depicted it: Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3

So have we seen anything on the show with rings, equidistant, and an island at it’s center? Hmm… well how about this? Picture 4 … or better yet, does this have new meaning? Picture 5

What else does Plato say?

“in the centre was a shrine sacred to Poseidon and Cleito, surrounded by a golden wall through which entry was fobidden…There was a temple to Poseidon himself, a stade in length, three hundred feet wide, and proportionate in height, though somewhat outlandish in appearance.”

Ahh… so according to Plato, Atlantis had a very special temple.

LOL. Okay, okay, I’m losing some of you on this one, huh? Yeah, I know. In this day and age, Atlantis and all that “Secret History” stuff is kinda Disney. It may be a tough one for some fans to swallow. But consider this… in the 19th century, Atlantis was a way bigger deal… thought to be far more more credible than today… perhaps even worthy of an Oceanic voyage to find it (that was for you @raelee).

Well whatever is going on, I feel fairly confident these clues are part of another grouping in the mythology. One that deals with a period much earlier than The Black Rock. SEASON 5 SPOILER: Or much later, since we now have all this time warping going on. Who knows? Maybe these are the remnants of an ancient future. I like @jakezim‘s theory that the foot statue is of one of the Flight 815 survivors. Maybe our cast will travel far enough back in time to find themselves unwittingly responsible for the creation myths and breakthroughs of the ancient world.

Whatever is going on, I’m just glad The Island is finally being treated like the complex character that it is and getting its very own set of “Flashbacks” & “Flash Forwards”… just like the rest of the cast.

I’ll be watching closely for any other clues pertaining to The Black Rock theory and The Atlantis theory. The moment either of them are busted, I’ll acknowledge it here.

Anything I missed? Thoughts?

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