I know what Richard said. "Ille Qui Nos Omnes Servabit" which translates to "That which will save us all."
ille qui nos omnes servabit
He who will serve us all.
well, which is it? I'm gonna guess it's saves, not serves because it fits in with the story of Osiris
From what I gather it's the tale of Set/Osiris combined with Esau and Jacob - Issac's sons. Old Testament stuff. So the guy in the black shirt that became Locke (the smoke monster) is Esau or Set. Osiris or Jacob is, well, Jacob. All the main characters apparently have the names of Jacob's children - but that could be a stretch.
I agree with most of this. In Egyptian mythology Seth is the god of the desert and darkness and chaos, Osiris is the god of the afterlife and rebirth. He was credited with the seasons and the flooding of the Nile and the growth of vegetation. Seth killed his younger brother Osiris (Seth looked a lot like that statue by the way, down to what it was carrying), but Osiris is resurrected and ultimately defeats Seth. This myth represents the yearly change of the seasons as winter kills life until the spring when the Nile floods and life returns.
Also, in the Bible Jacob tricks his blind father Isaac into giving him the blessing of the firstborn (Jacob and Esau are twins, but Esau was born first) so Esau swears to kill Jacob, but Jacob flees. The two brothers eventually make amends though. The story of Cain and Able seems to be more applicable (Cain kills his younger brother Able), but Jacob's name is Jacob, not Able. But Jacob's sons names are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph, and Benjamin. So the only main character named after one of them is Benjamin Linus (well, maybe Dan, but his name is Daniel, and this son in Dan).
It seems pretty apparent to me that Jacob's brother/Esau/Seth/Flocke (=Fake Locke) is also Christian Shepherd. Locke is dead, his body was in the cargo hold of the plane and noone could figure out how he came back to life ("Dead is Dead!"), so maybe that's how Christian also came back to life. ALSO, the ash around Jacob's cabin possibly was to keep Esau/Seth out, but the ash had a space in it, so he got in. Which is why when Ben was pretending to talk to Jacob things went crazy and also why Hurley saw Christian Shepherd's face in the window. Although, I'm not sure what that means for Claire or why Christian was talking to Sun telling her she had a long journey ahead of her.
On a side note, Locke being Esau/Seth would explain how Locke knew when his other self would be coming out of the jungle and need help b/c he had been shot. And why he wanted Richard to tell him that he had to die. Esau/Seth has been manipulating this whole thing from the beginning so that he could kill Jacob with the 'loophole'.
Also maybe he is also the smoke monster (or the monster works for him), but i thought I remembered hearing that Christian Shepherd was not the smoke monster, but maybe I'm wrong.
Anyway, I think the line that Jacob tells Esau at the beginning of the episode will be important: "It only ends once, everything before that is just progress."
I can't wait to see what happened when they set the bomb off. Did they prevent "the incident"? Did they cause it? Are Jack, Kate, Sayid, Jin, Hurley, Miles, Bernard, Rose, and Vincent still back in the 70s? (it was cool seeing Bernard, Rose, and Vincent again, that was an awesome scene). Is Juliette dead? Who is coming? (Jacob's last words were "They are coming!") Who are Ilana and her crew? Why was the statue broken? Was that ship off the coast at the beginning the Black Rock? Is that where Richard is from? Where is Claire? How are Desmond, Penny, and Charlie Hume going to play into this? What about Widmore? What about Eloise Hawking? Did Faraday and Pierre Chang ever make that video from the comic con promo? What does Jack's Grandpa have to do with this? What about Aaron? What about Ji-Yoon (Sun and Jin's dauther)? What about Walt and his weird bird-killing powers? Who are Adam and Eve? How did Ethan become an other/hostile? What about Ben's friend Annie? How does Radzinski end up being left in the Swan to push the button? Why did Jacob never meet Ben? What are the numbers? Are they cursed? Why did Rousseau's crew get "sick" after going under the temple? What's in the temple? why did the swan hatch door say "Quarantine" on the inside? Why can Hurley see dead people? Why can't people on the island have babies? And of course, why was Libby in the mental institute with Hurley?
