Indeed. Instantly reminded me of this
Ouroboros- symbol representing the eternal process and capability of something to re-create itself.
The woman like figure (or perhaps hermaphroditical figure) represent the ship and the arrival of primordial gods from the sky... it also depicts the reproduction cycle of the ancient ones... showing that Engineers were a mere slaves of the true god, their creation with the purpose to be sacrificed in order to create another creation. They have been used as hosts, but we can assume they rebelled against their gods and tried to reverse the eternal wheel of power and laws (parable of David and humans as his creators!). Perhaps thats why Engineers made humans on the first place. I think thats the ultimate story of Alien movies - rolling of the wheel of creation, recreation and destruction... all those points on the wheel actually lead to one central point that is always the same despite all those modalities and reversals.
*We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot again. I believe they used Eliots philosophy in Arrival too,
especially regarding time and perception of time.
On the mural above, you can easily notice the triangle shape (pyramid) with an EYE on the top. There is a worm like creature crawling from the eye end descending below towards the ancient astronauts. We can presume that the worm in some way lead to divine creation of the egg.
At the end, it not important if those astronauts are Engineers or modern humans, the process continues despite time and any other factor. What is time after all... as T.S. Eliot put it, In my beginning is my end. In my end is my beginning .
Thats also depicted on the mural... there is another pyramid, a reversed one...like a reversed mirror image starting with the creation of proto xeno, just at bottom of the primary pyramid. An irony of creation:
TO CREATE ONE MUST FIRST DESTROY... not sometimes as David said... ALWAYS.
Egyptian sky Goddess Nut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele_of_Ankh-ef-en-Khonsuhttp://alienexplorations.blogspot.rs/2008/01/secrets-of-life-cycle-tableau.html
For those interested in Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos:
http://www.tarrdaniel.com/documents/Hermetika/cthulhu.htmI don know have you noticed, but they did almost everything to present David as god PAN/SATAN/PROMETHEUS/FRANKENSTEIN in Prometheus movie. He is an amalgamation of all those
charachters/
He played the flute, he spoke about the creation and destruction, he even is mischievous and curious as Pan.
QuoteThe word pan, means everything. Therefore he represents the all-aspect of the universe; the physical world, the psychic world, the idea world and the one above all, the divine sphere of One. In this respect he is called Gnosis, which is rather a state of "existence" (we are talking high out of existence) than a termable existent. As the primarily, divine, ancient and creating idea, he is called Pan pangenitor, "the creator of all", but is also called Pan panfager, "the destroyer of all". In Latin tradition the dark aspect of Pan will be called » Dispater, the Father of the Underworld, the ruler of Dis. So we see that Pan is an ambivalent figure like Merkurius-Hermes-Toth; he has a satanic face, the Saturnic, the Sol Niger face, the face of the chaos of the under-waters, the face of the underworld, the nearly-nothing-aspect, and he has the face of the spiritual sun, the universality of above existence.
Pan's dark aspect can be traced through the centuries, and was always placed in very central position like the city of Dis in Dante's Divina Comedia, but centuries before that in the book of Enoch, giving same layers of the underworld. Therefore Pan is the Master of the Universe, not only Dispater, the lord of the chaotic under-waters and the equivalent of all dark aspects of things.
This "underworldness" was called khthonicity by the Greeks - the absolute darkness and abyss of all evil. In this chthonic under-water realm is where Dispater rules; this is where the women aspect of Nature (Physis), the Sophia, the daughter of the world is cast. By hermetics she is called Kore Kosmou ("Virgin of the World") and by the sumerian tradition Ereshkigal. She becomes the mistress of the underworld, the 'sacred whore' aspect, in contradiction to Innana, the virgin aspect.
As we see this is the lunar tradition in opposition to the solar one, where the men is the ruler of the underworld, and enters beyond to bring back the outcast woman. We find such examples in Orpheus and Euridike or the hymns of the gnosticists.
Thats the whole premise of Covenant... Two androids... replacement of one with another, but is it the good or the bad one. Or perhaps the one we thought to be the bad one was in fact the good one... Even the Covenant crew task is in fact to rescue Elizabeth Shaw - to bring back the outcast woman. Everything simply matches.
David as Master of the Universe; note the planet Saturn right above his head!!
