Interesting Island Article

[losty09]

Rupes Nigra

In the 1300's, many believed that the Polar Region was 4 large islands with a polar sea in the middle. This idea came from a lost work titled "Inventio Fortunata" which told that water was sucked into the center of the earth from the North Pole, and also told of a black rock 33 miles wide called the "Rupes Nigra". The "Rupes Nigra" was magnetic, and was what compasses pointed to (magnetic north.

The Inventio Fortunata is a mysterious document that has never been found. It is referred to in a letter written in 1497 or 1498 by John Day, an English merchant. The letter may have been written to Christopher Columbus. In the letter, Day says "I do not find the book Inventio Fortunata, and I thought that I (or he) was bringing it with my things, and I am very sorry not to find it because I wanted very much to serve you. I am sending the other book of Marco Polo and a copy of the land which has been found.

I have heard a lot of theories comparing the island in Lost to a number of different mythological sites, atlantis, etc. But maybe it doesn’t need to be something actually exists, but rather had the possibility of existed. The way we view our world today, is very different then the way people saw it hundreds of years ago. Perhaps their views were not correct, and yet as long as perception was there, that was the way it existed to them. Perhaps we can pull out these possible geographical ideas, and apply them to our island


Interesting, no? What if our island was similar to this? What if the water wasn’t sucked into the center of the earth, but rather sucked toward a part of it. This would create a strong current that no watercraft would be able to overcome. Every time you set off with hopes of moving away from the island, you would instead always be carried back to the same point, either near or on the island. The waters around the islands are all described as inward flowing. Is it possible that there could be some kind of air currents that moved in the same way? Would that be a more plausible explanation as to how Henry Gale’s balloon crashed, despite not being made of magnetic material? This would seem to create the “snow globe” effect.

And then, for this black rock business. The name in itself is suspicious. This “black rock” that caused the magnetic poles could be similar to the magnetic anomaly regulated by the hatch. If the giant magnet thing was natural, and only needed to be regulated while harnessing its power, it could have existed, entirely untapped, before Dharma moved in. The black rock mentioned in this article was supposedly made of lodestone, which caused the magnetism. Could the magnet in the show be a giant deposit of lodestone?

And what if our island, not the arctic, was the center of the world. I mean, how can you measure center on a circle? Every location on the planet could be claimed to the be the center of the earth, because all points on the globe are equal distances from a point on the other side. It could be that, the Dharma scientists chose our island to experiment on, because they thought it to be the true center of the earth. That would seem like a good place to experiment to me.

Then, reading this http://www.eaudrey.com/myth/Places/M...%20Article.pdf

We see that the formation of these supposed 4 islands is compared to the biblical Garden of Eden. An island’s obvious symbolism is paradise. The Garden of Eden was paradise. It has the religious connotations that are ever present in the show.

Something that would lend credit to the long dead purgatory theory is that the whirlpool of sorts was thought to be a type of gate to hell, whereas the pole itself was thought to be the point at which the heavens revolved, making the land a sort of place in between.
I encourage you to read this, it is extremely interesting.

Anyway, trying to spark some discussion. I know a lot of this is far fetched. It's less about the island being an exact mimic of this idea then it is about the possibilities.

[Michelle]

Wow really good theory i dont think iv seen that one anywhere before

[cassiel]

Could the Rupes Nigra be a black hole of some sort - a negative matter portal which pulls positive matter into its orbit(the island)? As you move further off the island, you move into the effect zone which begins pulling you back into the island which is an effect-free zone. Smokie could be:
1) is a negative matter manifestation
2) a side effect of this anomaly
3) interpreted as the guardian of the the negative matter portal, Cerberus guarding the gates of Hell

The Swan portal electromagnet is used to counter the island's pull. The negative matter anomaly may be some sort of phenomenon that's getting stronger and stronger as it 'consumes' positive matter and the Swan acts as a difuser.

Haven't been thorough with my read-thru of the posts; has someone suggested this before?