Sorry Achalli for writing this on your post.
I’m not sorry!

i was doing some work in cali a few years back and made a trip to hollywood blvd. my friend and i had just parked, we were walking up to the strip with all the stars, joking around i said ‘we gotta find pee-wee hermans star’ we turned the corner, passed 2 stars and there it was. hahaha what are the chances?

Sheut (shadow)
A person’s shadow, Sheut (šwt in Egyptian), was always present. It was believed that a person could not exist without a shadow, nor a shadow without a person, therefore, Egyptians surmised that a shadow contained something of the person it represents. For this reason statues of people and deities were sometimes referred to as their shadows.

The shadow was represented graphically as a small human figure painted completely black as well, as a figure of death, or servant of Anubis.

With the answer from richard being “He who will save us all” I’ve assumed he meant Jacob now I’m not sure. With Jacob and the statue (shadow) being gone now. I wrote a theory about Ilana and company bringing Johns’ body to the cabin to be reuninited with his spirit as just kind of fun. Now reading this about Nebekhau and Ba and Ka maybe the answer is John, as the last we saw he was lying in the shadow (what’s left of it) of the statue.

The Ba and Ka explain so much about the different apparitions. Here’s a break down of the soul according to Egyptians:

Ib (the heart)- This was the most importent part and is what is judged at death.

Sheut (shadow) – This was always present and contained a part of the person or thing it belonged to. It was also a servant of Annubis.

Ren (name) – given to the soul at birth, as long as the name existed in some form the soul would exist.

Ba – the individual personality.

Ka – the lifeforce

Akh – the form of Ba and Ka after binding. Can be thought of as a kind of ghost.

All of these forms can exist apart from each other and I think we have been seeing different aspects running around the Island. I’m also a believer that different entities have been using the same images to further their own agenda. For example the image of Chrisitan that has been appearing to Locke is not the same Christian that appeared to Sun and Lepidus. I believe that one was either Smokey or the Island’s doing.

I hadn’t viewed it in this light previously, so thanks for posting this.

Also, I left a comment for Holdem on easyrider69′s post, about AES and myself being firm subscribers to The Illuminati and have had many discussions in this regard, and how it may pertain to Lost.

I wrote a theory called, Richard, Ben, The Temple and The All Seeing Eye which you might find interesting.

On a side note, make note of AES’ avatar! lol

Answering your above question, if a member is being moderated, it is common that their comment won’t show up until the admin has approved it. It will magically appear in the proper sequence that it was posted. At least that is my understanding of the process.

I once thought I was going ‘mad’ when I received a comment via e-mail and it didn’t show up in my theory for a day. lol

PS: Also, if you leave super lengthy comments, it can also be delayed slightly, if the site is extremely busy too. My sometimes very long-winded comments have taken time to appear! lol Hope that is helpful.

Dabs, I found this information when I started to look at other minor gods in the Egyption pantheon. That’s how I stumbled on the Egyption’s concept of the soul. I’m still looking into it but I’m trying to find different angles than Teenbee. When I was reading about Nehebkau and his properties and responsibilities I was floored. The similarities between the serpent images and being a god of protection fit Smokey really well. The three things that really tied everything together were Nehebkau’s responsibility of binding the Ba and Ka together, guarding the entrance to Duat (Cerberus had a similar role), and was a protector of the earth that could be summoned; if it looks like Smokey, sounds like Smokey, then it must be Smokey.

I think that Ba and Ka do explain all the apparitions. The problem is that I believe that there are many different sources for all the apparitions. I think the Island generates apparations, Smokey takes on different forms, the Adversary has the same abbility. Another part of the soul that Egyptians believed in was the Sheut, or shadow. a shadow was supposed to contain something of the person or thing that the shadow was a part of. This would bring a whole new way to look at the statue and interperet the question “what lies in the shadow of the statue?” I’m starting to think that everything on the Island is just an aspect of the Island and that it wants all it’s different parts united as one, perhaps the series finale will have a major confrontaion with the Smoke Monster, especially if its job is to unite the Ba and Ka. Another quik thought, maybe Smokey is the Sheut (shadow) of the Island, Locke originally described it as the soul of the Island. Smokey contains images he scans from people and he dark in color. The Egyptians usually depicted the Sheut as a dark figure painted black and as a servant of Annubis. The possibilities are endless with this.

The Ka (life force) distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body.

The Ka was often represented in Egyptian iconography as a ‘second image of the individual’, leading earlier works to attempt to translate Ka as double.

When a deity intervened in human affairs, it was said that the Ba of the deity were at work. In this regard, the ruler was regarded as a Ba of a deity, or one deity was believed to be the Ba of another.

Given what we know about Fake Locke and Christian Shephard, etc., I am wondering if the above information is one explanation which might aptly fit.

Do you have any thoughts on this?