Adam and Eve/Theories

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The Stones

• The black and white are a reference to yin and yang. This ties into the online theories of "twinness" that Rousseau proposed. This also relates to Boone's t-shirt (84), and the original status of Adam and Eve as created from a whole (if Eve was created from Adam's rib, then together they constitute a whole. Apart, like yin and yang, two complementary parts of one). The yin and yang symbol can also be seen in the Hanso Foundation logo.
• The two people died in a suicide pact, and used the stones to determine who would kill the other first, like drawing straws.
• The stones are just being used as a plot device to give conclusive proof of who the skeletons are; the skeletons belong to whoever has the stones last at the end of the show.
• In the second pilot episode Locke is talking to Walt about backgammon and how it's the oldest game, 5,000 years old. As Locke is explaining to Walt how to play he says "two players, two sides, one is light, one is dark." He holds up a black and white playing piece or stone, and it made me think of the black and white stone found in Adam and Eve's pocket. We know there's going to be some sort of a war, is it possible the pieces found on Adam and Eve are somehow related to backgammon? To the war?

Also, people are always throwing out their opinions of who they think Adam and Eve really are. Has anyone thought that maybe Adam and Even may actually be the real Adam and Eve? That would be something, so obvious! That the island is the Garden of Eden, and this is how the whole Jacob and the twelve tribes (which has been previously theorized) relates. It would be pretty hackneyed of the show creators to go into taking the Bible literally. Even if you do, bodies definitely decay after six thousand years.

• The stones are evidence of a lottery--a group of people need to "draw straws" in order to decide who will perform some dangerous task that is likely to be deadly. This task may involve the Incident and detonating Jughead. The person who drew the black stone was the one who must risk his or her life, and the person who drew the white stone decided to accompany the other despite the clear danger. Also, the black stone is an allusion to the Black Rock.
• Urim and Thummim are two stones, one black and one white, used for making decisions, with black representing "yes" and white representing "no". From Israelite religion and culture, the stones are consistent with the "Adam and Eve" analogy. In the novel "The Alchemist" by Paolo Coelho, the shepherd boy puts Urim and Thummim in a pouch and "from then on, he would make his own decisions."
• The colours of the two stones are significant, as the skeletons are Rose and Bernard. The two of them stated that they did not care if they died, as long as they were together ("The Incident, Parts 1 & 2"), and the two skeletons being found together would be their wish coming true. The two may have died as a result of The Incident, which sped up their decomposition, throwing the estimation of the time of the skeletons' death in season one off.
  • Jack's estimate of decomposition taking forty years was just an estimate. Rose and Bernard died in 1977, making the corpses almost thirty years old when Jack found them. Jack's forty year statement doesn't defeat this theory. They needn't have their decomposition "sped up" to make this viable. They may have been originally meant to die in the nineteen-fifties or -sixties when they planned it in Season 1, but it was always meant to be Rose and Bernard.

Miscellaneous

• Interestingly, there is an apocryphal book of the New Testament, written in Syria in the 4th cent., called "The Cave of Treasures." The book chronicles the "first 5,500 years" of human history and describes how, upon banishment from Eden, Adam and Eve settled in a cave. It is in this cave that they begin to sire the "good people" that make up the human race. Meanwhile, the exiled Cain, is starting his own extended family in the valley below. These are the "bad people," who engage in all sorts of wickedness. The conflict between these two groups comprises most of the first "2,000" years.
• "Only fools are enslaved by time and space" may just simply refer to the Gnostic Christian concept that original sin is the ignorance or denial of our true spiritual selves; the original sin of Adam and Eve being descent into materiality, including ideas of reincarnation (rep. by time-jumps) and the attainment of immortality. The two skeletons could possibly be Adam and Eve. The DI might want to control time to go back and reverse the effects of original sin.
• Simply, Stephen Hawking Book in "Not in Portland" = Ellie Hawking; Widmore Pregnancy Test in "Not in Portland" = Charles Widmore; Season 6: They will have to die before Ellie is pregnant with Daniel because we're told the corpses are over 40 to 50 years old, dating it back to the 50s when the hydrogen bomb was first brought to the island. It will be that the bomb must go off then in order to change everything "what happened". 1977 was too late because in order to change what happened, you must go BEFORE the original event occured, it must be stopped at conception (just like others can't be born at conception after the bomb goes off in 1977). Ergo, Daniel must not be born and Ellie and Charles must never get off the island. (Note the concept of egg: A Brief History of Time is a book about the beginning of the universe; The pregnancy test is the result of a fertilized egg.)

Discovery

• Miles will reveal their identities.