Lost in Lost – So what’s up with all the hieroglyphics?

by Bob Degon

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After this week’s episode, commenter CraigO made an interesting observation. While it may be a bit of a stretch, I certainly don’t rule anything out with this show. He noticed that the title of the episode, “Some Like it Hoth,” alluded to the Egyptian god Thoth. Reading through the Wikipedia entry on the ibis-headed god, some interesting things jump out. The biggest point that I noticed is that he judges the dead. As CraigO pointed out, Thoth questions and judges the dead. Sounds a bit like the smoke monster. We’ve seen old Smokey judge Ben, as well as Ecko, and perhaps others as well. There definitely seems to be a link between the smoke monster and all the hieroglyphics found around the island.

I’m just wondering what the link between the island and Egypt is.

We’ve seen Egyptian themes in many places on the island:

The countdown clock in the Swan station contained hieroglyphics.
The secret room in Ben’s New Otherton shack where he summoned the monster had them too.
Those suckers were all over the temple when Ben went there to be judged.
The statue certainly looks Egyptian in nature. If I’m not mistaken, it was holding an Ankh.
The frozen wheel chamber was covered in symbols too.

I’m sure I’ve left some out, but the real point of this post (and yes, I have one) is to talk about possible reasons why the island is rife with Egyptian imagery.

My first thought has to do with the Tunisian desert. It’s not that far from Egypt. If the island likes to spit people out in Tunisia, then it isn’t such a leap to think that it might be possible to get to the island from the Tunisian desert. If it were that easy, though, I think Charles Widmore would be on top of it, but maybe back in the days of ancient Egypt the door was open.

Perhaps the island was visible in the past and it was off the coast of Egypt. This could explain the hieroglyphics, as well as the statue, which clearly looked Egyptian. If this were the case, I would be really interested in why the island started moving and why it disappeared.

With the new group in the picture, looking for “what lies in the shadow of the statue,” I’m hoping that we’ll learn a bit more about the ancient civilization that was on the island before this season is over.