I think that "Lost" is a modern telling of the old Sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet" which is based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest". If anyone has seen this movie, then you all know what i'm talking about. The Planet represents the island, the ruins of the ancient Krell represent the 4 toed statue which implies the ruins of the ancient civilization of the island, and the invisible Id monster, represents smokie. In "Forbidden Planet", the Id monster was created by the primitive parts of the Krell's subconscious mind. They became so powerful and so advanced, they created a machine that can project matter of any shape or size anywhere on the planet by mere thought. The machine was designed to read the mind's of the Krell. The dilemma is that the parts of the subconscious mind are still barbaric, and since it has access to the machine, it created the monsters from their Id which destroyed the Krell civilization. A million years later, humans arrive on this world, explore it, and find the ruins of the Krell including the machine which is still running. The machine is located underground. Once humans gain access to the machine, the Id monster is once again set loose to kill. I believe this is the entire premise for "Lost". An ancient civilization lived on that island similar to Atlantis. These people might be the "missing link", hence 4 toes. They predate humanity, and were hence were more advanced. They probably became such powerful psychics or invented a machine that could solve all their problems, but instead were destroyed by that very creation, a.k.a. the smoke monster. It's the only thing that survived the fall of the ancients since it was the cause of the fall. So, other people that come to the island millenia later, they now have to contend with it, and all the other phenomenon that was left over by the ancients.
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Scientist believe that in the future, humans will have four toes on each foot. Scientist believe that eventually humans will lose their unneeded pinky toes through evolution, because those two toes serve no purpose for balance.

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If we take into consideration the “purgatory” or Hell theory then,
It could be a statue of a Cyclop.
In Greek mythology, Cronus feared the Cyclopes' power and cast them into Tartarus (the place of punishment in the underworld) where they remained imprisoned until Zeus (an Olympian and son of Cronus) released them.Also they say that Cyclops had 4 toes on one foot and 3 on the other.

Or it could be something like Tálos. In Greek mythology, Tálos was a bronze automaton whom Zeus gave to Europa. Europa took him to Crete and he stayed there, circling the island's shore three times daily while guarding it. He threw rocks at any approaching ship. Talos is said to have heated himself red-hot and clasped strangers in his embrace as soon as they landed on the island.
Maybe it was something like the “black smoke”.

And maybe it’s nothing,maybe it means nothing at all.. i don’t know...i think that any of this would be too much.

It’s not Atlantis, i don’t believe that! maybe they wanted to make the new Atlantis
but still, it sounds too much... :/

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I saw this on another site. Obviously Dharma is a Buddhist idea, in buddhism there are statues with 4 toes, but of animals. The feet on those statues can kind of resemble human feet, but not so human looking as the foot shown on the episode. Plus, no sandal. But I really doubt the theory of the Statue of Liberty, too Plane ot the Apes.

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The Dream
"You, O king, were looking and then, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary splendor, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome.
Statue. "The head of that statue was made of fine gold, its breast and its arms of silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
Stone. "You continued looking until a stone was cut out without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crushed them. "Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away so that not a trace of them was found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. (Daniel 2: 31-35)

Is this an allusion to or the converse of King Nebuchadnezzar's Statue? The body is made of metal, but the feet of clay, easily smashed, causes the entire body to crumble and all the power and finery is rendered useless and destroyed by that one flaw.

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Jesus, long time ago I posted a theory about Atlantis with loads of facts from the series etc. I even named Lockes last name as being the same as John Locke and then Rousseau, and linked their theories of moral law, ethics etc to those of the Island but nobody even looked at it, now all this people write this stuff that I already said get the credit? Thats not fair.....Danny!

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I did some research and I think I got it. The 4 toes on the foot is meant to through us off.
I think it might be the god Avalokitesvara. Avalokitesvara is said to have 108 names. One it its names is Mahakala, who is one of the 8 Dharmapalas. Dharma is the doctrine of the religious and moral rights and duties of an individual.

He saw that even beings who practiced Dharma were unable to escape from the Bardo realms (time between rebirths where beings may face great anxiety and terrifying experiences) and he thought that in wrathful form he could also protect them in that way. (www.khandro.net/deity_Mahakala.htm).

Could his wrathful form be the black smoke?

Also, Mahakala was said to carry a lasso, which binds those who break their vows. Eko broke his vows and was punished for it.

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The heads on Easter Island have long ears and large noses because that's what the natives looked like. Maybe the natives of Lost Island only had 4 toes.

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i think that the show is so complecated and so many details,what to remember,I cannot imagine how the producers could think to so many things and to make them involved to each other,there are so many crosswords to remember,i cannot remember all the weird situsations.I hope the end will be clear to everyone and that will make sense to all of these details and solve them up.

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SIMPSONS ISLAND :):):)

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