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In todays video I’ll be covering the translation of the opening dialogue between engineers that was unfortunately deleted from Prometheus. In the theatrical version, we only whiteness a lone Engineer approaching the waterfall. Music: Atlantis by Audionautix However in the blu ray edition, multiple Engineers participate in the sacrifice ceremony. This deleted scene may be the most important scene in the franchise but there is a deeper hidden layer it. The Early Prometheus script actually has a dialogue between Engineers in this scene that reveals a few mysteries from the movie. This extended conversation between Engineers only appears in the ealy Prometheus script and it was removed even from the blue ray deleted scene. This extended opening with the translated dialogue sheds light on the Engineer mythology and the reasons they created humanity and later decided destroy it. I always felt like engineer scenes were unusually short as if the production team really wanted to edit them out for some reason. However, the deleted material explains some of the Engineers actions and motivations in the movie that otherwise would seem confusing. The following passage is taken from the Early Prometheus script that was highly edited by the studio and as a result many enginners scenes and dialogues were unfortunately cut. However this early script can still be found online and it even appears in the official Prometheus documentary. The box that the elder Engineer has in the script is actually a cup or a bowl that has a smaller cup with a gold ish liquid inside. The elder engineer referes to it as the blood of our lord which is later revealed in the script to be the blood of the first deacon, a god like creature portrayed on the mural that the Engineers worshiped. When Prometheus crew entered the temple, we can barely see the obscure craving on the wall depicting a xenomorph like creature that is actually an ancient Engineer diety that they were trying to resurrect. In the movie, right in front of the deacon mural, we saw a green crystal, however instead of this crystal, there was suppose to be the bowl from the beginning of the movie, the same bowl that contain the blood of the Engineer lord, the first deacon. There are a few behind the scene photos with this bowl instead of the green crystal and this bowl also appears in the trailer, confirming that the deacon and its blood were supposed to play a much bigger role in the movie.. However, because the studio decided to cut out the Engineer storyline all major elements related to engineers were removed or replaced. So who is the first deacon, why Engineers considered this creature their lord why its blood allowed them to create life on other planets and procreate? Let’s first answer these questions before we review the rest of the deleted scene. The Elder Engineer also says “For we cannot create as the gift was stripped from us long ago.” referring to the fact for some reason Engineers lost their ability to reproduce, which brings us to the most interesting part of this video. To fully understand what the elder said and answer these questions we need to look into the Prometheus documentary that actually explain the entire history of Engineers and their complex relationship with humans. The official Prometheus documentary also reveals why Engineers lost their ability to reproduce. For a few seconds the documentary show somethings called the master narrative that not only clarifies the engineer lore but also explains why engineers created humanity and why they potentially decided to end it. By looking at the master narrative, this is what we are able to read Their civilization meaning the Engineers civilization is millions of years old. Once Engineers expressed themselves as humans do, taking pleasure in music, color and story, but they’ve long since learned to see in more dimensions than we do. Their arts and ornaments exist on planes imperceptible to human senses. Their constructions look dark and grim to us, but the Engineers’ eyes see far more than our own. From the alien master narrative, we learned that Engineer lost their ability to reproduce because they started procreating with technology and eventually their biology changed to the point that they could not reproduce is the reason they had to use the blood of the first deacon, their version of God to create new life and procreate. The early script explains who the first deacon creature was but before we get to it, let’s review the rest of the deleted opening scene. In the opening sequence Engineers created humanity using the blood of their God, which brings a questions who was this deacon deity that is also portrayed on the mural. In the scene when the crew enters the temple David translates Engineer writings on the walls and reveals the translation to Weyland.
