The great thing IS certainly how everyone can make their own interpretations however elements in the show are carefully choreographed to evoke a certain response from the audience.

The producers very well may be surprised at some of the significance they themselves were unaware they created however that doesnt mean the overtly religious overtones are not intentional or fabricated by people digging for it. Read my comments on the post above!

As for a guy who goes by the name F…M..ster, his “handle” says it all. His posts are a reflection of his chosen name.

one thing, though: the story of horus and set is also the story of osiris and set. or, more to the point, how horus battled set to overcome his adversary, who had usurped his father osiris, who was then resurrected with the aid of Isis. I’ve always thought of Jacob as more of an Osiris figure than a Horus figure, though i suppose you are making this reference specifically because of the Shen disk. and it stands to reason that one of the two most likely candidates–Hurley and Jack–will take on the Horus role and battle Smokey (Set) with the aid of Ilana (Isis) to resurrect Jacob (Osiris). it is Ilana, after all, who knows where the secret passage with the Shun disk is.

In egyptian lore, it is the beetle Khepera who carries the Sun disk across the night sky, where it is reborn each day. The Sun disk is also associated with Ra the Sun god, who represents sunrise–which follows sunset or sundown. So resurrection seems to be in the cards, if i am reading the symbology correctly. To make another analogy, the Egyptian temples often contained sun chambers (attuned to the heliacal rising of Sirius, a star associated with Isis and Osiris)–which are literal houses of light. and Jacob’s proclivity for note-taking is reminiscent of Thoth, the god of scribes, who was also the Egyptian god of mathematics and magic, as well as a key figure in Gnosticism, alchemy, and science.

It’s good to see the Egyptian stuff cross-referenced with Buddhist ideology. I thought of the game Go when i saw the black/white stones, but they are also linked to backgammon — whose historical precursor is Senet, an Egyptian game. Dogen–a reference to a zazen priest who was the author of the “true dharma”– appropriating the scales,is another stroke of genius. Here we have a direct synthesis between Buddhism, egyptology, and technology. Dogen guards the temple, whose primary feature is the spring or underground river. In buddhism, water is associated with spirituality, the soul and purity; in egyptology, the underworld is a kind of purgatory which divides heaven (Tu’at) and hell. Smokey is of course associated with both Anubis, ruler of the underworld and Lord of the dead, and Ammemit, devourer of souls.

The parallels to Christianity are interesting too, and it’s good to see one of the less-obvious ones referenced here–St. Michael and the scales. not to put to fine a point on it, but Osiris and Jesus are both associated with resurrection as well as redeption to a certain degree. This season, we have seen some characters become redeemed (Jack and Kate); others have titled toward the dark side like Sith in star wars (Sayid and Claire).

finally, time may well be an eternal circle or cycle, but in Lost, we’re getting the sense that we are building toward an epic culmination which will resolved the island’s moebius-strip like grip on the characters’ lives (that is, if any of them are still alive at the end). As Jacob says, “it only ends once. everything else is progress.”