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Old 12-03-2005
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Sorry if the spelling error offends. I've only seen it spelled "Ecko."

In any case, we'll be waiting a while for the episode. Any other ideas in the meantime?

When I looked up translations of the verse there are a billion. One of the most intersting ones though was a literal translation. Since David was a shepard and this was supposedly written by David, it is all a metephor for his faith as it applies to what he knows as a sheep herder. Weird.

It had a lot to do with his sheep becoming LOST and it was his charge to protect them, expecially from a strange wilderness that included vipers and poisoned plants.

The whole annointing the head with oil comes directly from putting oil on sheep's wounds to heal them. And also around their nose to protect from insects getting inside. Since sheep cannot flick insects away with a tail they tend to beat their head on a rock until they die. So the oil is essentially a protection.

All of the LOST survivors (with perhaps Rose as an exception) beat themselves up constantly over thier torments.

So, now we have through Ecko (Eko) Dharma AND Christianity. Another duality. Both are supposed "Paths" to righteousness. If you believe.
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