I rewatched Alien recently, and I noticed the Xenomorph appears frequently when Jonsey the cat is present. It made me wonder, is Chappie/Xenomorph Apep the destroyer serpent god in Egypt, and Jonsey is Bastet/Sekhmet and Ripley is Ra who defeats Apep?
Apep is a Sepent that is black in some depictions, chestburster is a sepentine form and the Xeno is black like Apep's top half.
Bastet is a cat god who fights Apep, and has warrior side named Sekhmet. Ra is her father who takes a Cat/Lion form to fight Apep. This would solidy as Ripley as Ra, since Jonsey/Bastet is her pet, qnd Bastet usually is in a regular cat form, "Bastet, who increasingly was depicted as a cat, representing a gentler aspect." (Bastet, Wikipedia)
Weyland's symbol looks like The Zorastrian symbol of Ahura Mazda, but could it be Ra's more traditional form?:
I read that Giger spent a lot of time in an Egyptian wing of a museum and his designs look Egyptian.
Anyways for the first time I watched Alien in a new light, a battle between Ra & Bastet and Apep.