They crash the Prometheus into the Engineer's ship, giving up their lives in order to save others. The crew return to the Engineer structure to try and locate two missing crewmates. The Engineers' writing system is strikingly similar to Mesopotamian cuneiform that can be found in the middle-east, and their hieroglyphs are identical to what is found in Egypt, Mesoamerica, and other places on Earth. Peter Weyland describes mankind's progress in one of the viral videos that accompanied the movie's promotional campaigns: "For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the Lord, that person must be cut off from my presence. Scene 7: Arrival of the Engineers. On primordial Earth, a lone "Approximately 2,000 years prior to the Prometheus expedition to In 2089, archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover 35,000-year old cave paintings on the Isle of Skye on Earth depicting a tall figure pointing to a series of stars. Back aboard the lifeboat, the corpse of the Engineer twitches before its chest bursts open, spilling a newly born In the comics, the Jockey is shown to have an elephantine trunk. They are extremely advanced in genetic engineering and have built their own spacecraft. Giger, shows that the "trunk" is supposed to be an air hose and there is a helmet surrounding the Jockey's head. They pass through the Engineer ship's cargo bay in which are stored thousands of canisters of pathogen. This is described on the Prometheus Blu-Ray's extras section, in the caption for one of the deleted scenes:. When the crew reanimates the head of a deceased Engineer, who cries out in horror*, possibly at the "sin" of being given life after death, and when the surviving engineer kills Weyland -- who defied death through technology and is accompanied by a creature of his own making -- with his own creation (David). Well, if they look like Daniel James, we’d join the welcoming committee should they decide to invade the earth and enslave us earthlings.Okay, maybe enslavement is too much but if they do make a friendly visit and they do look like Daniel James, we’d be there to welcome them when their spacecraft lands. David, an artificial lifeform created by a human, stood in front of the Engineer as "living" proof that humans had moved from creation to creator. The crew's interference with these canisters causes the pathogen to be released. The two Engineers aboard the alien vessel were played by John LeBar ("the Ghost Engineer") and Ian Whyte ("the Last Engineer"). Weyland's own creation, the artificial lifeform, David, puts it into words: "Doesn't every child want their parents dead?" Shaw shares her findings with Peter Weyland, the elderly CEO of Weyland Corporation, who funds an expedition aboard the vessel Prometheus to the moon LV-223 in orbit around the star system depicted in the artefacts. In an early script visualized but never written, the Pilot ship had crashed or landed on LV-426 some 10 million years prior to being discovered by the However Ridley Scott also said the creature was a suit rather than a biomechanical lifeform. Peering into the room, she is startled by an enormous tentacle slapping against the window from the other side - the Trilobite she removed earlier has grown to massive proportions. However, the fetus is not human, but the result of Shaw being infected by Holloway when the couple made love the night before. Whether you take "Prometheus" to mean, literally, Prometheus from the Greek myth, or a Jesus figure, God, or another, there's a sacrifice by a higher life form for humanity.
But God could be disappointed in us — like children." This is further reinforced by the use of the name of LV-223 for the planetoid the move takes place on. From the Wikipedia article for Prometheus*: Above a waterfall, a humanoid alien consumes a dark liquid, and a hovering ... be any planet," meaning that the Engineers have probably terraformed many planets and seeded them with life via self-sacrifice.