This is speculative at best, but while I was walking past the impromptu Passover isle at my local grocer I was stricken with a certain sense of apophenia regarding Biblical mythology and the Smoke monster.
As an atheist, I am far from a Biblical scholar, but I recall that the 'destroying spirit of the Lord' that ubiquitously killed the Egyptian first born manifested itself as a permeating darkness. While remembering what the Passover holiday observed, the picture in my mind was that of the Smokemonster thrashing Keamy's team, or anyone else for that matter.
If we are to look at all religion's mythologies as a historical fact that became speculated upon and dogmatized over the ages of oral-histories, then in the Lost universe, where the Island has a history of Egyptian influence, could the Smokemonster be the phenomena that the early Hebrews saw as the manifestation of a transcendent God?
Further: Was the Island originally a part of Egypt, or at least tied to this era of history? Since the Others have never been seen to have been stymied by the Smokemonster, are they someone immune from it's wrath, much as the Israelites in Egypt were? And RE: the nature of the Others [most likely the Black Rock crew], do they see themselves tested and purified by the Island/Smokemonster as the new 'Chosen People'?
This sort of speculation is reserved, I guess, for the obsessive, trying-to-tie-every-insignificant-detail-together sort, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. Theory by randomlurker
As an atheist, I am far from a Biblical scholar, but I recall that the 'destroying spirit of the Lord' that ubiquitously killed the Egyptian first born manifested itself as a permeating darkness. While remembering what the Passover holiday observed, the picture in my mind was that of the Smokemonster thrashing Keamy's team, or anyone else for that matter.
If we are to look at all religion's mythologies as a historical fact that became speculated upon and dogmatized over the ages of oral-histories, then in the Lost universe, where the Island has a history of Egyptian influence, could the Smokemonster be the phenomena that the early Hebrews saw as the manifestation of a transcendent God?
Further: Was the Island originally a part of Egypt, or at least tied to this era of history? Since the Others have never been seen to have been stymied by the Smokemonster, are they someone immune from it's wrath, much as the Israelites in Egypt were? And RE: the nature of the Others [most likely the Black Rock crew], do they see themselves tested and purified by the Island/Smokemonster as the new 'Chosen People'?
This sort of speculation is reserved, I guess, for the obsessive, trying-to-tie-every-insignificant-detail-together sort, but I just thought I'd throw it out there. Theory by randomlurker
