Originally Posted by Requiem
Firstly, yes to the first bit. Not really an epiphany though.. well, maybe for you, but that is the general idea that's circulating through the theory circuit right now. As for the second paragraph... Eh, why? Why can't it be an actual person? Yes, I believe that person is the smoke monster, but I think that is actually him and that the smoke monster is just a form he had to take.
As for the statue. Taweret is portrayed as a fat hippo in her statues. Not a half human, half hippo, but a full, standing hippo. The statue on the island only has the head of an animal, but the body of a man.
I think it is a statue of the Egyptian god, Sobek. He was portrayed as either a man with the head of a crocodile, or a full crocodile at time.
But he was also a creation god, and there were myths in egyptian lore that he was the first god to come from the waters of chaos to create the world.
Sobek's ambiguous nature led some Egyptians to believe that he was a repairer of evil that had been done, rather than a force for good in itself, for example, going to Duat to restore damage done to the dead as a result of their form of death. He was also said to call on suitable gods and goddesses required for protecting people in situation, effectively having a more distant role, nudging things along, rather than taking an active part. In this way, he was seen as a more primal god, eventually becoming regarded as an Avatar of the primal god Amun, who at that time was considered the chief god. When his identity finally merged, Amun had become merged himself with Ra to become Amun-Ra, so Sobek, as an avatar of Amun-Ra, was known as Sobek-Ra.
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