Lost: The 4-Toed Statue?
In a lively conversation, my friends are hypothesizing that the statue in the TV Show “Lost” looks like the Rhodes of Colossus or the entrance to the lost island of Atlantis. However after researching an egyptian perspective, I have found that the statue seems to resemble the Statue of Anubis.
hmmm? Here are the official screen caps:
Wikipedia:
Anubis was the god to protect the dead and bring them to the afterlife. He was usually portrayed as a half human, half jackal, or in full jackal form wearing a ribbon and holding a flail in the crook of its arm[5]. The jackal was strongly associated with cemeteries in ancient Egypt, since it was a scavenger which threatened to uncover human bodies and eat their flesh[6] The distinctive black color of Anubis “did not have to do with the jackal [per se] but with the color of rotting flesh and with the black soil of the Nile valley, symbolizing rebirth.”[6]
Anubis is depicted in funerary contexts where he is shown attending to the mummies of the deceased or sitting atop a tomb protecting it. In fact, during embalming, the “head embalmer” wore an Anubis costume. The critical weighing of the heart scene in Book of the Dead also show Anubis performing the measurement that determined the worthiness of the deceased to enter the realm of the dead (the underworld). New Kingdom tomb-seals also depict Anubis atop nine bows that symbolize his domination over the foes of Egypt.[3] Is this just me or does this make sense since Locke, Ben, Christian Shepard, Jacob, and possibly Claire keep coming back from the dead. Is the island some sort of “limbo” or the lost city of Atlantis? Only time will tell!
