The "Eywa" Theory

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

I realize that this thread is more than a year old but I wanted to say that I loved reading everyone's insights and ideas.

I, myself, am not a Christian but I thought it interesting to see several connections to some Christian themes.
These are just a few things I noticed:

It is clear that Pandora is "the Garden of Eden with teeth".
The linking up to nature to contact their deity can be seen as analogous to praying to God.
The rebirth concepts.
The two sacred trees (Hometree and the Tree of Souls) can be seen as analogous to the two trees in the GoE (Tree of Life and The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil).

One thing that I thought was interesting was Eywa's name. First of all, Eywa's a she to the Na'vi. That reminds me of ancient pre-patriarchal religious systems of the ancient world. Second, she's related to nature in a Mother Earth vein. And lastly, her name. When I first heard it in the movie I instantly thought of Eve. Then when I saw it spelled in the subtitles, I really saw a connection to Eve.

The Hurrian Mother Goddess was Hepa. The Hebrew for 'Eve' is 'Heva' or 'Hawwah'. In Arabic it's Hawwa'. In Ge'ez it's Hiywan and in romanized-Greek it is Heua.

Perhaps there was a conscious effort in naming Eywa? It would certainly fit with the GoE (with teeth!) theme.

Interesting: you have Pandora as the GoE. You have your two trees. You have your rebirth concepts and your prayer. And you have your Eve. Adam (Jake) came later. Way later. He was formed from Eywa. The avatars are created from the DNA of Na'vi and humans. Jake then gets his consciousness truly transplanted into his avatar body by Eywa to truly be a Na'vi.

Anywho, those were just some things. Apologies for touching on an old thread. I just really love this movie.

great first post,and please don't apologize for bumping old threads...there is always some leftover gold in the the old thread veins.


welcome to AF,and i hope you have as much fun as i have and still do.


Eywa watches over AF.

[Ja'k Dawsiin]

Eywa has heard you!!!

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