The Tail Section

Hot off the presses, here are some very revealing pics from the upcoming LOST season two episode “Maternity Leave”. If you flip through them chronologically they almost seem to tell a story: Claire goes on a solo trek through the jungle, Danielle and Kate follow (looks like Sawyer gave kate a 9mm), and they all three wind up at what was Ethan”s destination when he kidnapped her: Another Bunker! This one has the Caducueus symbol often associated with medicine, but here is the complete definition/etymology of the symbol from the medical literature:

A staff or rod with a snake curled around it is the staff (the rod) of Aesculapius (also called Asklepios), the ancient mythical god of medicine. His Greek name was Asklepios and his Roman name was Aesculapius. In reality, Asklepios may have once lived and been renowned for his gentle, humane remedies and his humane treatment of the mentally ill. His followers established temples called asclepions, temples of Asklepios, temples of healing. The greatest asklepion was in a grove of trees south of Corinth, Greece where the sick had to spend a night while the proper remedies were revealed during a dream to the priests of the temple and the cured had to make a suitable sacrifice (usually a rooster) to the god.

According to mythology, Asculapius had a number of children including Hygieia, the goddess of health (from whose name comes the word “hygiene”) and Panaceia, the goddess of healing (from whose name comes por word “panacea” for a universal remedy).

Today, the staff of Aesculapius is a commonly used symbol of medicine. It is the symbol of the American Medical Association (AMA) and many other medical societies.

Of course in typical LOST fashion the episode ends just as they enter, and is followed by six weeks of repeats, afterwards we find out the hatch is actually occupied by a scottish interior decorator who, in a moment of meta fiction, is being forced to read “Bad Twin” by Gary Troup over and over again.

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