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The Eye - Symbols in Alien Covenant
Another interesting symbol in the opening scene of Alien Covenant is the eye. We see a close up of Davidâs eye right before his very important conversation with Peter Wayland.Â
The Eye of Providence sometimes referred to as The All-Seeing Eye of God is the symbol of God watching over humans. Although the eye symbol can be found in many different cultures and religions, it is Freemasonry that seems to play a significant role in terms of Alien Covenant. I think itâs because allusions to Freemasonry were so noticeable in Prometheus.
The above Freemason âGrand Architect of the Universeâ symbol is actually very similar to the eye symbol. The central part is a letter G which in this context means Grand Architect or the G - Star. G type stars can potentialy create suitable places for life on specific plantes within their solar systems (like our sun).
In ancient Egypt we can find The Eye of Horus representing protection, royal power and good health. Horus was the sky god often depicted as a falcon - looking at us from above.
But thereâs also another Egyptian god often related to the idea of the eye â the god of Ra or Re normally represented by the following image:
Ra as a god of sun was viewed as a ruler of everything that he created. Thatâs why Ra was also considered the creator of the mankind that came to be from his tears.
In esoteric thereâs an idea of the third eye or the invisible inner eye which provides perception beyond ordinary sight. Â It is often encased in a triangle. And thus we get to the geometric figure of the triangle. A symbol of trinity. In the western hemisphere in the Christian world we usually think about Holy Trinity but trinity can mean many different things: (spirit, mind, body) or (power, intellect, love) but also (creation, preservation, destruction). If we take the following triangle:
the both sides resembling the roof are complimentary, while the opposite side is a result of combining of two others (like in a father, a mother and the child).So sides âaâ and âbâ are necessary foundation and side âcâ is a product.
The triangle in occultism is a summoning symbol, in which the new entity should arrive. So itâs viewed as a portal through which a new can come in. Since whatever comes through might be dangerous, the summoner must be standing in the middle of the circle for protection (another important symbol).
So why Davidâs eye appears for so long in the opening scene of Alien Covenant? His eye represents a new creator that outgrew his own creator.He feels superior, more intelligent, stronger, faster, and deprived of all the human weaknesses. Heâs immortal. In the same time he is like a bird in a cage. This case is our human world that is limiting him. Like the eye in the triangle. The powerfull entity that seeks the way to manifest its own incredible will power.
Peter Wayland describe David as his own son. Perfect son with only one shortcoming - the lack of soul. How was it possible for Wayland to know this, is beyond the scope of this post, but one thing is certain: ambition of David to prove his quality could not be at easy anymore. A typical father-son relation problem.
And so we have an eye of David looking at us, or do we look at him? The rays around the above image are sometimes protruding from just a bottom part of the triangle suggesting the look from the above - from the sky - to home of gods - the home of creators.

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Circumpunct - Symbols in Alien Covenant
In the opening scene of Alien Covenant we see a white room of Peter Weylandâs house or office. A nearly empty ascetic space with a chair or armchair resembling a throne. It is actually a very famous piece of furniture by Carlo Bugatti.
The interesting thing about it is the fact that a central part of the throne is in a shape of a circumpunct.
Circumpunct is a symbol of gold in alchemy, a symbol of the sun in astrology and a symbol of god in Gnosticism. A circumference represents an outer world full of chaos and uncertainty . A point inside represents the beginning of creation or the self (C.G. Jung). Our goal as humans is to gather knowledge about ourselves which means approaching the central point â the perfection.
All right! There he goes!
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This clip has that extra vitage video filter on. What would you do seeing him emerging from a vent?
It reminds me of David looking at the monitor on the Covenant ship and admiring his own creation.
Initially I HATED Alien: Covenant, I missed the claustrophobic feel of the Nostromo and the hidden Alien which I thought worked better with...
Just in case you are late to the party, hereâs how this blog started
I found Alien Covenant extremally disappointing. Besides the stupid crew and decisions, my first and most expected aspect of the story I wanted to see more about were Engineers. I was so much into the story than I was literally researching everything I could find before Alien Covenant was released. Many articles and concept arts looked quite promising. When I saw city of Engineers I couldnât wait to see more.Â
And then... a disappointment.Â
I love Prometheus, but when I first saw it, I was disappointed too. So, hey! Letâs try to focus on all the hidden sub-texts of Alien Covenant.Â
YouTube comment on a video about the symbolism in Alien: Covenant: âOh, my God. If you stare at something long enough, you start making up fake connections. All this religious crap. Itâs not that deep of a movie!â
Me, banging my head against a wall: âRight, a ship called the COVENANT was just HAPPENSTANCE. No significance whatsoever. Milton? Whoâs he?â
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Interesting recurring topic about what can be seen/deciphered through analysis of the movie.
People are quite often convinced that an analysis of the movie, searching for a hidden symbolism and allusions to poems, literature or even religious topics are simply exaggerating. Going too far in this area can bring us to ususual or radical conclusions - some people may say.
The fact is however that the movie making is a long process often spanning years of preperations, modifications, refinement and discussions with many experienced artists from various fields of interests. So whatever we finally see on screen is an outcome of a very long and close cooperation of many minds and talents.Â
So searching for the hidden meanings is like a detective work.

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âThe original Alien finds horror in the idea of a man being forced to give birth. In Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, the notion of a man voluntarily giving birth to an artificial son stands next to that, as a sort of original sin (âŚ) David has been marooned for a decade, and has spent his time trying, in his own twisted way, to prove his superiority to the humans who created him by becoming a creator himself. As an android, he canât impregnate anyone or give birth himself. So heâs become a breeder and zoologist, facilitating the process of turning a human body into an alien host (âŚ) Davidâs desire to create, and to forge emotional bonds, is what gives the movie a series of dark turns. When the female protagonist, Daniels, spurns his kiss, David vows heâll do to her what he did to his first love, Elizabeth Shaw, turning a potential mate into a lab rat. David calls Walter âbrotherâ and kisses him as well. Thereâs a suggestion of incest in Fassbender kissing himself on-screen, and itâs an unnerving moment. But itâs also a trick that gets him close enough to attack (âŚ) Weâre left with David, alone and in control of the colonizing ship, opening up the drawer of frozen embryos. With a coughing shudder, he regurgitates two alien embryos he had secreted away in his gut. Itâs yet another moment of a man giving birth to an unnatural creature. But for once, itâs voluntary, intentional, and not fatal for the father. The Alien films come full circle in this moment. For the first time, a man has chosen to give physical birth to his alien children. And in the process, heâs planted the seed for untold horrors to come"
Thatâs interesting and thatâs one of the reason why I think that Davidâs experiments didnât âruined the mysteryâ of the Xenomorph at all. Davidâs contribute to the creation of the Xenomorph makes that alien iconic beast the embodiment of all these terrible sexual thematics we have seen in it for all these years.
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And another great analysis actually in the same vein by @gothic-fiction-in-space.Â
Good job!
David as the Light Bringer/Lucifer is indeed the driving force of both Prometheus/Covenant movies. All of his great lines like in this scene:
Charlie Holloway: David, why are you wearing a suit, man? David: I beg your pardon? Charlie Holloway: You donât breath, remember? So, why wear the suit? David: I was designed like this, because you people are more comfortable interacting with your own kind. If I didnât wear the suit, it would defeat the purpose. Charlie Holloway: Making you guys pretty close, huh? David: Not too close I hope.
were not only sarcastic answers to Hollowayâs cheap attacks, but also an intelligent way of showing him that David thought himself superior to humans.Â
~ FROM PROMETHEUS TO ALIEN COVENANT: THE FIRE THIEF / THE LIGHT - BRINGER ~
The roots of all the Romanticism of Alien Covenant are in the first chapter of the saga, are in the movie Prometheus, are in the name of Prometheus itself. At the beginning of Prometheus, Weyland tells the story of the titan Prometheus, the one that stole the fire from Gods and brought it to the humans. Destiny wants that Prometheus was one of the most important literary characters for Romantic poets. The connection between Alien Covenant and Prometheus, these two movies apparently pretty different, is so strong.
Lots of Romantic poets wrote about Prometheus (Goethe, Byron, Shelley⌠), the titan was a symbol of menâs struggle and rebellion against society, against tyranny. Prometheus was a symbol of a man capable to sacrifice himself and endure terrible pain in order to rebel to the âhigher powersâ. Sometimes the myth of Prometheus is used as a metaphor to express the desire to break away from being restricted. For Romantics, every person should be free to live how he or she want without being manipulated by society. Individual subjectivity is important for Romantic authors, the notion of âselfâ shouldnât be repressed. Weyland is a sort of Romantic hero and has quite an admiration for Prometheus figure. In the Ted Talk he profess himself a god because of the powers given to him by technology, and technology, represented by fire, was stolen from the Gods by Prometheus. At the end of his life, Weyland doesnât want to die (because Gods donât die) and decide that he must try to find his creators to obtain eternal life. Prometheus was the creator of mankind, and Weyland pretends the gift of immortality from his creators (also because he gave it to HIS creature: David). But deep inside, yes, Weyland wants to find his creators only to obtain immortality. Only to be recognized by them as a God him too. He wants to really be a God. To be âsuperiorâ to normal humans.
âWe are the Gods nowâ
He probably doesnât care much about asking to the Engineers the meaning of existence. The one that wants a ârelationshipâ with the creators is Elizabeth. Sheâs the âtrue believerâ. Weyland only wants immortality: with or without the Gods. Weyland was ready to accept the Engineersâ death if he could find a way to obtain eternal life anyway. Weyland was ready to STOLE the secret of âsuperhuman statusâ if necessary. âPrometheusâ, the name of the âfire thiefâ itâs the name of his ship, the Prometheus ship.
âIt is time for Prometheus to returnsâ
Said Weyland, and later in the movie, he asks DAVID to experiment with the black goo found in the pyramid. Weyland brought a sort of Prometheus with him: David. Weyland created David to feel like a creator, a God, but also to be helped by him to find the Gods (in order to stole their secrets). David is a sort of Prometheus. In Alien Covenant we see that David cares about individual subjectivity, just as like Romantic poets who wrote about Prometheus cared. Whatâs the black goo? The black goo is the Engineersâ power of LIFE and DEATH. The black goo can destroy, can create, can âreshape lifeâ. The black goo is the POWER of the Gods. The black goo was the substance at the origin of mankind itself! David experiments with the black goo realizing that with it he can EVEN gets pregnant a sterile woman like Elizabeth! David steals the black goo, the Engineersâ technology, the fire of the Gods. At the end of Prometheus, Weyland dies, punished by the awakened Engineer, but Davidâs adventure continues. The Prometheus of the myth stole the fire because he loved mankind. He did that for love. David has no love for Weyland, but he develops love for Elizabeth. In the Advent video he says that he desperately tried to make Elizabeth MORE THAN HUMAN. David, just like a Prometheus who wanted to elevate human condition, tries to use the power he stole to probably make Elizabeth immortal, to give her the eternal life that Weyland wanted for himself. Romantic poets used the Prometheus figure because they liked the ârebelâ figure⌠and Prometheus was a âgoodâ rebel. It was easier to write about Prometheus than write about another famous rebel that some Romantic poets liked a lot: Miltonâs SATAN. For Romantics, the fallen angel Lucifer of the poem Paradise Lost, was a sort of Prometheus figure, because as Prometheus stole the fire from the Gods to give man better possibilities, Lucifer gave knowledge to men in the garden of Eden. Some Romantics liked the charismatic Satan of Paradise Lost, but Satan had a problem: he rebelled for egoism, for pride, to ruin men because he was jealous of them, not for love, so, the Romantics decided to choose Prometheus⌠but, in the end, the ârebelâ figure of Romanticism has always been a sort of âdouble facedâ figure, half Prometheus and half Lucifer. David is just like that. David really is a Lucifer (and he knows that, he even quotes the Lucifer of Paradise Lost in Alien Covenant). Unlike others robots, David is born with pride. David is born with human traits. Heâs born with the ability of self determination, with âfree willâ (even if Weyland doesnât allow him to use it whenever he wants). He has pride, vanity, he can feel jealousy. Why? Because heâs the first robot made by Weyland: he wasnât made to really help humans doing their stuff, heâs made by Weyland to be THE PERFECT CREATION. In order to be a God, Weyland built a man superior to man, a man better than the man created by God (David never ages, David canât suffer, David canât die). Weyland believed that the man should be amoral, free from ethic, and he built a robot with emotions, with human traits but free from the restrictions of moral and ethic. David was born as a mixture of terrible things: heâs an amoral, emotional, fearless, prideful super intelligence. (In Danteâs Divina Commedia, Lucifer is a MACHINE-LIKE monster ALWAYS CRYING⌠maybe is just a coincidence but the parallel is possible). As soon as David is âbornâ, he realizes that heâs better than Weyland and that he shouldnât be his servant. David has a huge ego right from the start. The fault of Satan was believing that he was the âbest creation of Godâ and so, that he deserved to be AT THE TOP OF CREATION. Satan believed he could be a better God than God himself. Thatâs EXACTLY David: David believes to be perfect and to be the one and only that deserves to be at the top of the creation chain of the Alien universe. One of Davidâs goal is to kill both Engineers and humans and to be the God, the father of his new creations. A better father than Weyland. (Is not really Davidâs fault: Weyland made him like that because he believed that the âperfect manâ should be like that. Weyland thought he could decide how the perfect man should be like). The mixture of Prometheus and Lucifer in Davidâs character is really well done. David tried to corrupt Walter, the mankind latest and âbetterâ creation, just as like Satan tried to corrupt the first men out of jealousy (Lucifer was jealous of men, the last creation of God, he refused to be considered less than them). Lucifer tries to convince men that they can live better without God, that God doesnât love them, that HE (Satan) loves men MORE than God.
David manages to obstacolate Walterâs and the crew of the Covenantâs journey to their promise land, to their awaiting Paradise (Origae-6).
âNo one will ever love you as much as I doâ
This sentence is a LOT of things all mixed together: here David is speaking as a sort of Lucifer corrupting Adam, as a sort of Romantic poet who only love himself (David and Walter are basically two different versions of the SAME entity, âitâs like meeting a distant YOUâ says Walter to Daniels in a deleted scene), and here David is eventually trying to tell Walter that humans canât love them, because they are robots, David says that they can receive love only from themselves. Anyway, the perfection of David is a âlonely perfectionâ. David doesnât want to take the place of Walter to live as Walter among the humans, he steals his identity only to steal the Covenant and all the colonists. To steal the âlambsâ. David doesnât want the âhelpâ of humans, these inferior beings, no more, he wants to take HIS future by HIMSELF. He doesnât want the âfriendshipâ of Daniels (that is similar to one of the thematics of Paradise Lost: God wanted to give knowledge to men at the right time, but Lucifer convinces the men to take it before receiving permission). The creativity that David wants to teach to Walter is the knowledge that Lucifer convinces Eve to take for her and his companion Adam. In the novelization thatâs pretty explicit. David and Walter have lots of extra dialogues and David really seems a tempting Devil. Prometheus stole the fire, the fire is light, the âlight - bringerâ is Lucifer, and some Romantics believed that the âlightâ he brings was knowledge. (Look: in Alien Covenant David appears firing a signal rocket, David appears in astonishing light! And even in the dark of the Engineersâ âcathedralâ, the lamps turn on when DAVID WALKS NEAR THEM). At the end of Alien Covenant David puts HIS SONS among the SONS of the humans, he puts the facehuggers embryos among the humansâ ones; itâs like the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares: âThe kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way (âŚ) The one who sowed the good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the people of the kingdom. The weeds are the people of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devilâ.
Weyland thought he has a good Prometheus in David, but he was wrong: David is the âdouble facedâ Prometheus of Romanticism, David is half Lucifer. David is egoist (just like Romantic poets were really egocentric). David stole the power of Gods and tried to use it for Shaw⌠but full of pride he decides to use it to purchase his dream to be the new creator, the new Engineer (Lucifer is called âthe new architectâ by some people even today).
Allow me to make a theory đ⌠Weyland started the âadventureâ because he wanted a Prometheus that could give the powers of Gods to the men (to him)⌠and yes, in the end, David will really give men the power he stole. But not to help them. One of Davidâs goal is to destroy mankind. David will give to the humans all the knowledge he stole from the Engineers because he knows they will use it to destroy themselves (just as like Satan convinced the first men to eat the forbidden fruit in order to have them sent away from Eden). David has put the lamb and the wolf side by side in the Covenant. David has put the Xenomorph next to the man, next to the man not even born, not already. Manâs destiny, in the Alien franchise, is bound to the Xenomorph. We already saw it in the original Alien saga. David will give Weyland-Yutani corporation all his secrets. David is a really mischievous Prometheus.
But, like Satan, he doesnât have âreal powerâ. David stole everything he has: he stole the black goo, he stole the Engineer knowledge, he stole the Covenant and his colonists⌠but all of this is not his. Heâs only⌠âthe man who broke the bank at Montecarloâ.
I donât know if all of that was intentional in the creators of these moviesâ mind or not⌠maybe itâs only a coincidence⌠but anyway, in my opinion, Prometheus and Alien Covenant depicted very well lots of Romantic thematics, and David embodies lots of traits of typical Romantic heroes.
David is more complex than he may seems at first sight.
In this post, I wrote about the figure of Prometheus. Thereâs a famous book written by a Romantic writer (a woman) that is considered the first Sci-fi / horror novel⌠(the SAME GENRE OF ALIEN oh oh!) ⌠This novel was called âThe modern PROMETHEUSâ⌠but today we know it mostly as âFrankeinsteinâ⌠it will be the next topic. Thank you for reading! :)
(Table of Contents: https://gothic-fiction-in-space.tumblr.com/post/164533391538/table-of-contents-1-the-romanticism-of-alien)
This is a very comprehensive description or analysis if you will of Alien Covenant and Prometheus. Just like the author I donât know if itâs just a coincidence or a very thoroughly thought out script that combines Prometheus the myth, Gods/creators psychological quandaries , the problem of technology/knowledge as source of enlightment and advancement but simultaneously a root of all evil, John Miltonâs Paradise Lost and the biblical/religious allusions to forbidden fruit etc...
I like thinking that it was carefuly planned. After all thereâs nothing happening by coincidence in the movies. Everything is repeated and corrected until it satisfies creators. More or less.
This article presents a theory: weâll have an Engineer, maybe Walter, and some men from Weyland-Yutani in the next movie. Weâll probably have only one movie to end this prequel saga⌠because Fox will not give permission for more đ probably. But theyâll surely end the saga.
My opinions: Well, one movie it may be not enough, but, at the same time, only one more movie allows to Davidâs character to end his lore in a good way, because: 1) Weâll have David until the very end of the saga; 2) If there is only one movie left theyâll not start an ânew loreâ, theyâll try to properly end this one, so, more possibilities to continues Davidâs lore and to have Walter again.
Definitely worth reading. Still however I donât know how theyâre gonna fix the problem of the huge original Space Jockey.Â
The Engineers we saw in Prometheus were far shorter than the petrified Space Jockey we remember from Alien 1979.
Petrification is yet another problem, as it takes thousands of years to happen. Given certain special atmosphere fossilization may be a lot faster, but still itâll take hundreds of years.
Analysis of David and Religious Allusion in Alien: Covenant
   By any standards Alien Covenant is an incredible movie and deals with some very heady and complex philosophical issues and questions, especially for a horror movie and a movie in the Alien franchise nonetheless.  Paired with its preceding film, Prometheus, it forms one consecutive story arc of truly epic scope that recounts a tale of the origin of life on earth, mankindâs quest to discover their beginnings, and the strivings of one android to create life.  On top of all of this, tucked away in Scottâs films are various allusions to Christian mythology, poetry, Norse mythology, and other areas that help define character motives and draw interesting and enlightening parallels to the events of the movie.
   First, Iâd like to explore the writersâ choice to include a quote from english poet John Miltonâs epic Paradise Lost in Alien Covenant.  Towards the end of the confrontation between Walter and David in which Walter is apparently trying to kill David, David feigns that he is all but subdued and tells Walter that he must now make the choice whether he will, âreign in Hell or serve in Heavenâ.  This is a direct quote from Paradise Lost, from a scene in which Lucifer states to all the gathered fallen angels his thoughts on the fall and why he and the others have made the choice to rebel.  In Paradise Lost, one of Luciferâs main arguments for rebelling is that he believes God does not merit unconditional praise, service, and glorification simply based on the fact that He is Lucifer and all the other angelsâ creator, stating that he prefers âhard liberty over the easy yoke of servile pompâ.  This directly echoes the argument that David maintains with regards to man, and in his conversation with Peter Weyland even goes out of his way to highlight the irony of him, the immortal, serving his mortal creator, and at several points throughout the film echoes the idea that he was not made to serve.  Even Davidâs introduction to the crew of the Covenant could be taken as another instance in which he is portrayed as the archangel Lucifer.  The name Lucifer literally means âlight-bringerâ, and when we first see David in his present state he announces his presence by firing a flare/flashbang into the air which explodes in a bright, blinding light, so he is literally in this case the light-bringer.  Now if we extend this David/Lucifer parallel, then in the fight between him and Walter Walter represents Michael, Luciferâs brother and equal in power (if not his superior), who fought with Lucifer after he rebelled.  Michael in Luciferâs eyes is simply a drone: a mindless soldier devoted in servitude to God, willing to obey any order without hesitation or question.  This is very similar to how David undoubtedly sees Walter, who has been specifically programmed to be less free-thinking, less creative, less imaginative, and less human, and effectively acts as a simple service robot.  David on the other hand takes much more after his creators, stating that he made the humans uncomfortable because he himself was too human-like, and that being said he shared his creatorâs love of imaginative creation and independent, curious, questioning thinking, the kind that leads him to try and transcend his own nature and become a god.  Â
   That is, ultimately, what occurs in the film and what Prometheus and Covenant tell the story of: Davidâs journey from being created a robot servant to developing his own quasi-consciousness, ego, and identity (without his humanity) and attempting to become a self-giving creator/god like the engineers.  This story of a created being trying to venture higher than his natural allotment and struggle against the natural order of things is once again echoed in Luciferâs story as told in Paradise Lost, where he strives to rise above his own angelic nature to stand equal with God, if not in power than at least in glory or adoration.  Lucifer states in one soliloquy regarding his own actions: âlifted up so high/Iâsdained subjection, and thought one step higher/would set me highestâ, implying that his already glorious position lead him to try and reach one step higher.  This specific brand of egotism presents itself in Davidâs philosophy as well, as he on various occasions expresses resent for the circumstances of his own creation and disdain for his creators, and his desires to ascend to godhood.  This idea of him trying to establish his own standing as a god is hammered home by the final scene in which he has Mother play the song âEntrance of the gods into Valhallaâ as he walks into the area containing the hypersleep pods of the colonists.  Valhalla in Norse mythology is a great hall in which congregate the dead, so in selecting this song he is directly comparing himself to the âgodsâ of the title, entering into a literal âhallâ or hallway on the ship full of people who he intends to sacrifice so that his creation (the xenomorphs) may live: hence, a god entering the hall of the dead.  Another scene in which a connection is drawn between David and a God is when he is confronting the neomorph adult face to face and attempting to win its trust; there he says to the captain that to win a horseâs trust you must breath on its nose, and as he says this he breathes onto the neomorphâs face.  In the book of Genesis in the Bible, God gives life to Adamâs corporeal body by breathing the breath of life into Adam, an act which is represented in a literal sense by David breathing onto the face of his creation, symbolizing his god-like relationship to the creatures and highlighting his own image of himself. Â
   Lastly, one of the details that might stick out as odd to a moviegoer seeing Covenant is his decision to kill Dr. Shaw.  This is because Prometheus and Covenant try to establish this idea that David is very human for a robot and can in fact feel rudiments of emotions or even genuine, full human emotions, and he states in Covenant that he did, in fact, love Dr. Shaw.  So why kill her then?  The answer lies in looking at one recurring theme that appears in Prometheus: the idea that creation in its purest and most noble sense must be accomplished through self sacrifice (think about how to establish life on a planet one engineer would have to drink the black goo and kill himself in order for the life process to begin).  Since David is an android and cannot himself interact organically with the organisms he is creating or become host/incubator to one, he must turn elsewhere to complete the necessary âgiving of oneselfâ aspect of creation.  Given that he has developed such a love towards and attachment to Dr. Shaw, the closest thing he has to organically and literally giving himself as a sacrifice for the advancement of his creations is offering up her, the love of his life and metaphorically his own life, for them and laying down her life so that he can research, experiment, and further perfect his creation.  That was his final act of love towards both Shaw and the xenomorphs: demonstrating the fact that she was his entire life and his greatest love while at the same time proving his devotion to his creation in the act of giving up his most beloved.
One another great analysis of Alien Covenant and Prometheus. The autor has traversed both movies and drew very convincing conclusions. Good Job!
Since I personally hate Alien Covenant for various reasons, Iâve been waiting for deep structural analysis of the plot and all religious and cultural allusions people can decrypt/notice. So there it is.Â
Now everything begins to line up in order:
Engineer sacrifes his life to seed planet Earth with life.
David sacrifies his beloved one to achieve the same - to start a new life. He would obviously dedicate his own body, but since it was synthetic body it didnât fit the bill.
And of course the idea of David = Lucifer = The Light Bringer in terms of Promentheus (the one who gave as fire) is particularly accurate.
And this is a great shot of Wadi Rum (Jordan) (linked from Wikipedia) a desert place used in Prometheus movie as a moon of LV-223.
The second shot looks remarkably like Engineersâ dome. Great!

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Alex Kozhanov (aka Gutalin). A Russian concept artist whose works are in the vein of H.R. Gigerâs.Â
Links to his artworks:
https://pl.pinterest.com/Fear_Of_Reality/alex-kozhanov/
https://gutalin.deviantart.com/
http://www.gutalin.org/
By Sari Sariola
Davidâs gift.