Ø Neytiri S Tribe of Na Vi = Live in (Sector 12)
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James Cameron’s Avatar
Year of Story: 2154 = (12) Neytiri’s Tribe of Na’vi = live in (Sector 12) Sector 12 = Home Tree & Tree of Souls Main Character (human) = Jake Sully (birthdate: 8/24/2126) (Luke 8 21-26)? Story’s Setting: Pandora (moon) Pandora: 1 of 5 moons of the planet Polyphemus Polyphemus = Cyclops in Greek Mythology (father: Poseidon) Polyphemus = “man eater” in The Odyssey Polyphemus = “protector of sheep” in The Odyssey (God/Christ?) Polyphemus = one eye (blue planet) = eye of God? Polyphemus = located in Alpha Centauri (constellation) Alpha Centauri = consists of (3 stars) Pandora = jungle (garden?) Humans = cannot breathe Pandora’s air = air too pure? (reflection of man’s sins?) Beginning of film = (bar scene) Jake “strong prey on the weak” (Christ?) Jake = (bar fight) = forming cross/lying in water/bird on shirt/forms a twisted cross with his legs Jake’s brother (Tommy) = killed for money (Christ?) Tommy = scientist (trained for 3 years) (length of Christ’s preachings) Tommy’s casket = #976323 = 30 (Christ?) Spaceship = black and white triangles on panels (premonition of Armageddon?) Journey to Pandora = 5 years, 9 months, 22 days (cryogenic sleep) Pandora = Pandora’s Box (Greek mythology) heaven & hell? Human base on Pandora = “Hell’s Gate” (is humanity, or human sin, the demons in Pandora’s Box?) Aircraft = triangular/black (unholy trinity?) (birds of prey/death?) Storm clouds = battle brewing? 1 Outer space = upside down ( turning Pandora upside down/opening Pandora’s box?) Humanity = mining/stealing Pandora’s resources (Unobtainium) Unobtainium = holy grail/God? Marines = become mercenaries on Pandora (reflection of missionaries on Earth? Historical reflection of exploration on earth? Killing in the name of God & country?) Marine Colonel = Quaritch (combination of quarry & rich?) Col. Quaritch = head of “Hell’s Gate Security” (Satan?) Col. Quaritch = 3 scars (mark of the beast/Satan?) Col. Quaritch = airship (called “dragon” & dragon painted on the side = Satan?) Col. Quaritch = “you’re not in Kansas anymore” (Dorothy/Wizard of Oz) Col. Quaritch = If there is a hell, you will go there for rest and relaxation” after serving on Pandora for “6” years) Col. Quaritch = “promises” Jake new legs for cooperation Jake’s tour of duty = 6 years Dr. Grace Augustine = (green clothing/scientist/doctor/teacher/writer) Dr. Grace Augustine = (Bible history: Grace? St. Augustine?) Human Government = goal: “winning the hearts and minds of the Na’vi people” (historical reference to indigenous tribes and minorities?) Mineral: Unobtainium (hearts and minds of the Na’vi? God? Heaven? Jake = Avatar (tunnel of light/reborn/womb/circle/can breathe the air of Pandora (heaven?) Jake = first brain scan (looks like a tree = connection to Tree of Life [Home Tree] and/or [Tree of Souls]?) Na’vi school = Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax (reflection of the destruction yet to come? Na’vi school = solar system planetarium (knocked around/premonition of battle to come?) Mushrooms in the jungle = spirals/circles (rebirth/God/living rising from the dead?)
2 Thanator (cat creature)= (Na’vi language: Bringer of Fear) (“Thanatopsis”) Jake = Thanator (waterfall/leap of faith/baptism/River Jordan/”new Jake “ [human transforms into Avatar/Na’vi] Neytiri = Princess of Na’vi Omaticaya (Blue Flute Clan) Tree of Souls seeds = angelic/guides/pure spirits? Jake = fire/night (Valley of the Shadow of Death/hell?) Neytiri = guardian angel (arrows/feathers) “no thanks” for death/killing (viperwolves) Neytiri = saves Jake because his “heart is strong” (Christ?) Jake = one of the “sky people” (heaven?) Seeds of The Tree of Souls (life) = connect to Jake (who stands in the shape of the cross) (prophecy) Tsu ‘Tey = hunter/prince Tsu ‘Tey = 3 horsemen (Direhorses) 4th horseman??? Eywa = Tree of Life (Garden of Eden) RDA = Resources Development Administration (non-governmental) RDA head= Parker Selfridge (selfish?) Parker Selfridge = the Na’vi are “blue monkeys” not people Jake = has 3 months to save the Na’vi (before removal) Trudy = helicopter pilot (Tiger: king of all beast ***not the lion) Sector 12 = largest deposits of Unobtainium (God) Jake/Neytiri = dead brother/dead sister (connection?) Jake = makes connection (the bond/“Tsaheylu”) with his Direhorse (is Jake the 4th horseman/Death?) Hallelujah Mountains (floating mountains of Pandora) Trudy = “can’t see”/ “have to know where you are going” in the Hallelujah Mts. (have to use faith?) Unobtainium = is a “superconductor” (direct connection to God?) Neytiri = speaks to “Mountain Banshee” (Ikran) (all living things share one language? The voice of God?) Mountain Banshee = dragon/bird/Ikran
3 Jake= becomes one with Pandora (“flow of energy”) (connection to God?) Neytiri = There is a “network of energy, which flows through all living things; but one day, you have to give it back” (connection to life/planet/God) Flying lizards = circular wings/rainbows (further evidence of God?) Neytiri’s sister = murdered in front of her own eyes at school Neytiri’s sister = murdered with two other Na’vi children (3 children/crucifixion of Christ?) Dr. Grace Augustine = “Scientists can’t be ruled by emotions; they have to be objective.” (What does this say about scientists? Connected to or disconnected from God?) Jake = clean kill/ritual sacrifice (“commits body to the people [Na’vi]/soul to heaven” [Eywa] Christ?) Jake = crosses under waterfall (other side/spirit world/becomes Na’vi warrior/no longer human) Jake = becomes “master of land (Direhorse) & master of air (Ikran) (Christ?) Home Tree = arches/church/holy ground/Tree of Life? Dr. Grace Augustine = “Jake is a lucky Swan.” (reference to “The Ugly Duckling”?/transformation?/man to Na’vi/man to God?) Bird of Prey = The Last Shadow (Great Leonopteryx) Leonopteryx = ??? Neytiri = great great grandfather (5th and last “Toruk Makto” to ride the Great Leonopteryx) Toruk Makto = “Rider of The Last Shadow” Col. Quaritch = (to Jake) “Haven’t got lost in the woods, have you?” (reference to Christ being lost in the wilderness for 40 days?) Jake = will negotiate terms of relocation with the Na’vi (historical reference to The Trail of Tears?) Eytukan = Neytiri’s father/leader of the Omaticaya Clan (“people live twice; 2nd time with the people”) (reference to Christ?) Jake = center of circle/the light/laying of hands (Christ?) Tree of Voices = voices of the Na’vi who are connected to Eywa
4 Tree of Voices = destroyed by bulldozers (disconnected from heaven?/loss of faith?/challenge of faith?) Bulldozers = #12 (disciples of hell/unholy trinity?), #09 (nine levels of hell/center of hell?), #08 (infinity of hell?/infinite evils of mankind?) Trees = connections of “synapsis” (Dr. Grace Augustine) (murdering the mind shared by people and God?) Synapsis = happen in the human brain ***(is the movie setting really inside the human mind/heart/soul/imagination of man?) Na’vi attack= attack the bulldozers and mercenary marines (hellish scene/fire/destruction/death/premonition of Armageddon?) Na’vi attack = Parker Selfridge “Jesus Christ” (premonition of Armageddon?) Col. Quaritch = “we’ll use gas” (historical reference to Hitler/Jews/antichrist?) Sky People = Send Jake to “save” the Na’vi people (The Second Coming of Christ?) Jake = becomes the 6th Toruk Makto by making “the connection” with the Great Leonopteryx Revelations/Battle of Armageddon = Jake/Christ (ruler of the air, the land, the sea?) (joins all Na’vi Clans for the final battle) Trudy = Helicopter #16 (7) (angel?) (the Archangel Michael?) Col. Quaritch (destroys/murders Home Tree) Queen Mo’at = frees Jake from his “cross” (“If you are one of us, help us”) (reference to Christ?) Eytukan = Dies with Home Tree (piece of tree spears him) (crucifixion/king dying for his people?) Na’vi = loss of Home Tree/forced removal (Trail of Tears?) Jake/Grace/Norm = holy trinity? Jake/Grace/Norm/Trudy = 4 points of the cross?/four horsemen of the apocalypse? Dr. Grace Augustine = teacher of children (shot by Col. Quaritch) bloody side/bloody hand (Christ figure)
5 Dr. Grace Augustine = “I would die to get samples” of the Tree of Souls (premonition of death?) Jake = “outcast/betrayer/alien” to mankind (reference to Christ in the eyes of the Jewish people?) (Judas Iscariot?) Jake = “I was in a place the eye did not see.” (Hell/Eye of God/Eye of Eywa?) Jake = the 6th Toruk Makto (Christ?) (In the Bible, Christ was asked 6 times to prove who he was) (6th day of creation: man and the animals) Grace = Tree of Souls (Mo’at: Grace must pass through the “eye of Eywa” to go into her Avatar body) (transformation/ascension/second coming?) The Pandoran War = (Armageddon?) Jake/Neytiri/Tsu ‘Tey = holy trinity (father/son/holy ghost) Ikran = angels of God? Joining of Na’vi Clans = Air/land/sea (Revelations?) ***Na’vi Clans = all minorities? ***Sky people = all white/Americans? Col. Quaritch = covered by darkness/silhouette (Satan?) Col. Quaritch = “fight terror with terror” (premonition of Armageddon?) Col. Quaritch = Goal: kill the Na’vi diety (Tree of Souls) (Satan?) Trudy = dies in battle (martyrdom/Archangel Michael?) Jake = Hallelujah Mountains (“Technology does not work.”) (reference to heaven/power of God/weakness of man?) Jake = “man killed his mother on Earth” (reference to the Tree of Life/Pandora’s Tree of Souls?) (Earth has become hell, and heaven is “unobtainable” [Unobtainium]?) Jake = scene with Eywa (making “the connection”) prays for help/Garden of Gethsemane/Christ? Col. Quaritch/Parker Selfridge/RDA = unholy trinity? Pandoran War = Ikran/Scorpion war ships (Flight of the Valkyries ?) Valkyries = Norse mythology reference? Col. Quaritch = commander of scorpions (war ships) (Satan?)
6 Col. Quaritch = payload ship of bombs (Tree of Souls) call name is Valkyrie 1- 6 (what does this mean?) Eywa = answers Jake’s prayers (all animals) (angels of God?/saviors of the Na’vi people/God’s people?) Col. Quaritch = shoulder on fire (wings of fire/Satan?) Col. Quaritch = becomes robot (shape-shifter/rises from flames of ship/bird/Satan?) Col. Quaritch/Jake = final battle in the Garden of Eden Col. Quaritch = (to Jake) “How does it feel to betray your own people?” (reference to Christ?) Jake= spears Col. Quaritch with knife (x1) Neytiri = spears Col. Quaritch with arrows (x2) Col. Quaritch = speared 3 times (crucified) Human Jake = saved by Neytiri (love knows no bounds?) Tsu ‘Tey = bloody hands/bloody side (reflection of Dr. Grace Augustine/Christ figure) Jake = becomes “The Last Shadow” for Tsu ‘Tey (sacrificed for the Na’vi people) (“It is the way”/Tao te Ching???) Human Jake = Tree of Souls (pass through the Eye of Eywa) Jake= becomes Na’vi/Avatar (Second Coming of Christ?)
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