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a) I start thinking about movies such as "
As Above, Below" and "
Pyramid" which are these found footage type movies although the latter began to drift away from the concept slightly, I am probably thinking about it in terms of Prometheus. What it we were dealing with an underground maze that might be rather regular as Paris underground passages and Egyptian tombs might go, but eventually some strange relief turns out to be a functioning control panel that might as well be a stone version of the sort of controls that you would find as something as basic as in let's say the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars.
b) The movie "Pyramid" featured an Anubis that had become a monstrous thing combined with the idea of an Ammit from the Egyptian Book of the Dead that would devour the souls of those whose hearts weighed heavily with guilt. One thing to know about the painting that the original Alien was based on, the design was a combination of various thing, much of which came from symbolism from the Egyptian book of the dead and anything else that turned up on a tomb wall, part of this was the Egyptian mummification ritual image featuring Anubis mummifying a human whose body lies upon a mummification Lion couch. So I suggest that in light of that, a few years ago I came to have the idea that Anubis had become the alien out to capture and mummify his victims for their voyage on the barge of a million years. Those spores at the bottom of the derelict ship were in some way the transformed people of another civilisation that were on a journey through eternity.
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Anubis and Ammit from the Weighing of the Hearts scene in
the Papyrus of Ani version of The Egyptian Book of the Dead |
c) Faded memories of having read the Alien: Engineers script by Jon Spaihts left the scene probably the scene featuring the holograms of the engineers transformed into mutated memories of reading about orrery scene as something very vague like brief dream like ghost composed of spinning glowing globes leading people on as a willow-the-wisp of sorts.
d) I began to work on a doodle of an alien, with the face extending from the front of the face and so on and it wanted to become perhaps like a jet fighter or a rocket ship that travelled through space. And this thing would shed off it's mask and propulsion unity as an organic suit. I wondered how this thing would fly through space. I thought vaguely about the Mi-Go of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos and how with wings they flew through the "aether" of space. I also had an idea for a creature that would like a warped spacesuit with an elongated space helmet bubble and the elongated jaws and teeth filling up the bubble which stretches with the jaws as they open. Perhaps the space helmet becomes the outer skin.
