The Lost Statue - It's Official?

ABC's Lost recap officially spills the beans? Doc Artz is reporting this as a done deal. In the ABC.com recap of the Incident, the statue is named as Tawaret. It makes a lot of sense, as I speculated in early May, that the statue would be an Egyptian Goddess of fertility and child birth. Yes, the crocodile-looking face through many for a loop, including me.

But really, the two ankhs, the headdress...it does all add up. And I can't exactly blame ABC for not putting giant, saggy boobs on the statue in a hit prime-time TV series.


















Additionally, Lostpedia reveals this fascinating detail:

Wired magazine’s May 2009 issue, guest-edited by J.J. Abrams, included a Lost-related puzzle on pages 104-105 consisting of two pages of one- and two-digit numbers. When the first page was decrypted using a Vigenère cipher, it read:

“ U S E L E T
T E R S B A
C K W A R D S F
R O M E N D
”

or, “use letters backward from end”.

Counting letters backwards from the end of a section of an article on time travel written by Thorne Plates for the August 2003 issue of Wired, in which the Casimir effect was referenced, yielded the solution to the second page:

“ T H E F O U
R T O E D S
T A T U E I S
T A W E R E T
”

or, “The four-toed statue is Taweret”.

I do think the variance in the statue's design has an interesting implication, as well. I really don't think any of these beings are literally meant to be one deity or another. We've seen references to what could be Anubis, Ammit, Isis, Set, plus Jacob and Esau. It seems clear that it's an amalgam of religious iconography, and I would guess that these beings inspired the human legends of gods and mortals. Great stuff! Man, I love this show.