Ashes to Ashes
tdciago
young Katie and Tom enter the store to steal the lunchbox, Patsy
Cline's "Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray" is playing. The lyrics heard
are:
Two cigarettes in an ashtray,
My love and I in a small cafe.
Then a stranger came along,
And everything went wrong.
The reference to an ashtray foreshadows the moment when Flocke kicks
Jacob into the fire pit at the end of the episode. In fact, we see
the fire burning down to ashes in the very first scene of the episode
as well. And the lyrics also hint at the possibility that the
stranger (in this case, Jacob) does not have the best intentions.
There has been speculation that Jacob will rise from the ashes in the
manner of a phoenix, which was known as the Bennu bird in ancient
Egypt. Is it just a coincidence that Ben was the one to stab Jacob?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennu
<Begin quote>
"The Bennu bird serves as the Egyptian correspondence to the phoenix,
and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra. Some of the titles of
the Bennu bird were “He Who Came Into Being by Himself,” “Ascending
One,” and “Lord of Jubilees.” While Bennu is the common name given to
the bird in English, the original vowels of the name spelled as bnn by
Egyptian scribes are uncertain, although it may have been pronounced
something like *bānana. The name is related to the verb *wabāna
(spelled wbn in Egyptian texts becoming Coptic ouoein), meaning “to
rise brilliantly,” or “to shine.” The Bennu bird was the mythological
phoenix of Egypt. It was associated with the rising of the Nile,
resurrection, and the sun. Because the Bennu represented creation and
renewal, it was connected with the Egyptian calendar. Indeed, the
Temple of the Bennu was well known for its time-keeping devices...The
Book of the Dead says, “I am the Bennu bird, the Heart-Soul of Ra, the
Guide of the Gods to the Tuat.”.
</End quote>
And is there a connection to "DIE WORM," an anagram of WIDMORE? I
turns out that in some traditions, the phoenix, after burning to
ashes, regenerates by first showing up as a worm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(mythology)