One more possibility to throw on the four-toed statue theory pile:
Aurvandill's Toe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurvandil
"Aurvandil is mentioned once in Norse Mythology, in the Sk=E1ldskaparm=E1l
section of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda:
Thor went home to Thr=FAdvangar...and told her these things: that he had
waded from the north over Icy Stream and had borne Aurvandill in a
basket on his back from the north out of J=F6tunheim. And he added for a
token, that one of Aurvandill's toes had stuck out of the basket, and
became frozen; wherefore Thor broke it off and cast it up into the
heavens, and made thereof the star called Aurvandill's Toe. ...
Guesses as to the identity of this star have included the polestar,
the planet Venus, Sirius and the star Rigel which forms the toe of the
constellation Orion, though if Aurvandil is to be identified with the
constellation Orion one would expect to find Aurvandil himself being
translated into the sky, not just his toe."
http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/SantAppx.htm
"Orendel/Earendel [Aurvandill], then, seems to be the foremost among
those which announce some 'advent,' not unlike the passage in the
Odyssey...dealing with Odysseus' arrival in Ithaca: 'When that
brightest of stars (aster phaantatos) rose which comes to tell us that
the dawn is near, the travelling ****p was drawing close to an island.'
That might point, again, to Venus, but there are reasons to think of
Sirius, the brightest of all fixed stars, as will come out later."
http://www.legon.demon.co.uk/osirion.htm
One of the generally-accepted theories of modern Egyptology has been
that the ancient Egyptians identified their god Osiris with the
constellation of Orion...
In the Pyramid Texts, the term conventionally rendered as 'Orion' is
the word S3h, written in the singular with the 'star' determinative
and the s3h hieroglyphic sign meaning 'toe', or 'toes'. Thus the
literal translation of the word S3h in these texts is Toe-Star...Here,
the translation of S3h as 'Toe-Star' gives significance to a typically
Egyptian play on words: 'Thou must approach the sky on thy toes as the
Toe-Star...
As indicated above, Badawy ventured to suggest that the 'Toe-Star' of
the Pyramid Texts might have been alpha-Orionis, apparently believing
that this was the designation of the brightest star in the
constellation of Orion, when in fact the star in question is known as
beta-Orionis or Rigel. Not only is Rigel one of the brightest stars in
the night sky, and therefore an obvious candidate for the star of
Osiris, but it also marks one of the two 'feet' of the anthropomorphic
figure of Orion. For this reason, it accords perfectly with the
translation of S3h as Toe-Star...
It therefore seems likely that in the Pyramid Texts, the frequent
interplay between Isis-Spdt and Osiris-S3h took place in a balanced
relation****p between two stars - namely Sirius and Rigel, two of the
brightest stars in the sky - and not between a star and a
constellation."
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I've associated Locke with Orion. Now we get toes thrown into the
mix. I'm reminded of Locke wiggling his toes right after the crash.
The earliest hieroglyph for the name Osiris (the Egyptian Orion) was
an eye and a throne. Our attention is drawn to Locke's eye by his
scar, and we see him seated, pre-crash, in his wheelchair.
I point all this out just to open up the possibilities of where the
Losties are, what the significance of the statue is, and what the
origin of the island is.
In "Lost: The Official Magazine" (issue # 6), Damon Lindelof said:
"But these are all pieces, so that when the grand design of Lost is
revealed,
you'll be able to take a step back from the island and really
understand it. In the sense of an archaeological dig, what is the
origin of this island? The ultimate flashback will be: what is this
island? Where did it come from? And who put it there?"
"Who put it there?" seems to me a very significant question. It
implies that the island is not some naturally occurring land mass, but
was placed there by some being(s). The producers have said the island
has a long history. Before the advent of modern science, who had the
power and ability to "put" the island there? I come up with two
possibilities: God (or *a* god), or extraterrestrials. (And these
could be one and the same to ancient people.)
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