L.O.S.T. Season Finale thread

[SKYLANE]

Anyone notice that Jacob, like Richard, wasn't aging either?

[3d]

All this talk about black and white has me remembering an odd random scene from an old episode. It's still a loose end as far as i know.

Jack and Kate wander into a cave where there are two long dead human remains. Jack finds a pouch with a small black stone and small white stone on one of the bodies. He looks at it briefly and then puts it in his pocket. And that's all we ever see or hear of it. HMmmmm...

Hurley played chess with Echo's ghost in the psych ward. Black and white pieces. Black and white players.

Backgammon is played by Locke and Walt. Same deal. Black and white pieces. Black and white players.

And who decides to pop back into the storyline last night...
Bernard and Rose!! Yay! Uhmm.. Black and White :-X Their scene was very thought provoking. "After all this time you're STILL shooting at each other and trying to save the world? How about a cup of tea." Or something like that...

I need to watch the episode 3 more times

[rgG]

3d wrote:
All this talk about black and white has me remembering an odd random scene from an old episode. It's still a loose end as far as i know.

Jack and Kate wander into a cave where there are two long dead human remains. Jack finds a pouch with a small black stone and small white stone on one of the bodies. He looks at it briefly and then puts it in his pocket. And that's all we ever see or hear of it. HMmmmm...

Hurley played chess with Echo's ghost in the psych ward. Black and white pieces. Black and white players.

Backgammon is played by Locke and Walt. Same deal. Black and white pieces. Black and white players.

And who decides to pop back into the storyline last night...
Bernard and Rose!! Yay! Uhmm.. Black and White :-X Their scene was very thought provoking. "After all this time you're STILL shooting at each other and trying to save the world? How about a cup of tea." Or something like that...

I need to watch the episode 3 more times

I saw a re-run of that episode today on Sci-fi and I was wondering what those stone represented. I was thinking they might be some sort of voting device, you know white for yes and black for no or something. Who knows. That was also the episode where they found the Adam and Eve skeletons.

[chapba]

nobody knows the translation for the answer to "what lies at the shadow....." and what is the egyptian god the jackal headed figure represents?? darn my history lessons.......

[rgG]

chapba wrote:
nobody knows the translation for the answer to "what lies at the shadow....." and what is the egyptian god the jackal headed figure represents?? darn my history lessons.......

The statue had the head of a crocodile not a jackal, so that would make it the god Sobek.

"Sobek's ambiguous nature led some Egyptian to believe that he was a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself, for example, going to Duat to restore damage done to the dead as a result of their form of death. He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situation, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part."

If the statue had the head of a Jackal, then it would have been of Anubis, who is the god of the dead.

"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["

As far as the translation, here is what I have found:

"Richard's answer to Ilana's question ("What lies in the shadow of the statue?") was in Latin, He said, "Ille qui nos omnis servabit." Translation: "He who will save us all."

[Blankity Blank]

rgG wrote: "Richard's answer to Ilana's question ("What lies in the shadow of the statue?") was in Latin, He said, "Ille qui nos omnis servabit." Translation: "He who will save us all."

On at least one site I read, there seems to be a split on on point. Some are translating it as "He who will protect us all."

Here's a source that backs the "protect" version.

"That, TV fans, is the answer to the question posed throughout the second half of the season on ABC’s hit adventure/drama series Lost: “What lies in the shadow of the statue?". As noted in a previous post, this season revealed that the group of island dwellers known as the “Others” spoke Latin, and it appears the ageless Richard (Ricardus?) has been speaking the language for quite a long time.

Sorry if none of this makes any sense to you, but I expect the thousands of Lost fans who are googling the phrase are champing at the bit for a translation. Fine; Ille qui nos omnes servabit - “He who will protect us all.” Latin students will be careful not to confuse the verb servo, servare - “protect, keep” (it’s the root of English words like “conserve” and “preserve" ), with the almost-homophone servio, servire - “to serve"."

[NewtonMP2100]

. . .he said "they are coming". . . who is he referring to. . .?


. . .does he mean Jack and his entourage. . .? other 'gods' like him (or whatever he is). . .?

[rgG]

NewtonMP2100 wrote:
. . .he said "they are coming". . . who is he referring to. . .?


. . .does he mean Jack and his entourage. . .? other 'gods' like him (or whatever he is). . .?

I wondered that, too. It could be Jack and crew or the people carrying Locke's body.