Talk:The Temple of Hopes/Archive 1

The Temple of Five Lords.

I knew I had heard this title before somewhere, In Battlestar Galactica's case it does not refer to this. However,

"In China where Haikou and Qiongshan border on each other there is a grouping of ancient buildings. The group is comprised of temples, gardens and the houses of five famous ministers of the Tang and Song dynasties. Construction of these ancient buildings began during the reign of Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty. The group takes its name from its main building, which is also called the Memorial Temple of Five Lords. Nine meters in height, the temple is a two-story wooden building covering a floor-space of 560 square meters. During the Tang and Song dynasties, five outstanding ministers were demoted and exiled to Hainan-the bleak end of the earth at that time. And it was to them that the temple was dedicated. With a golden-glazed board reading “Number One Building of Hainan” hung at the front, the temple has become the most popular site among Hainan’s cultural relics."

exerpt taken from Here

I know that BSG hasn't used any asian references insofar, but I thought it might be interesting to add, and get the imagination going. --Gallion 07:30, 1 December 2006 (CST)

In Chinese, it is called "五公祠"(in Chinese).-- SuperMMX 03:49, 19 December 2006 (CST)

This really isn't an article since there's nothing really to say. However, we can keep it as a placeholder since we know of Number Three and her strange vision quest with five luminous beings, and of the Final Five. Probably related. --Spencerian 07:51, 1 December 2006 (CST)

There's nothing to say yet, true... I had thought that there should be at least a "placeholder" as you said, just because there should be an inevitable development around this subject. Anyway never opposed to getting rid of it later if it gets in the way.--Gallion 08:12, 1 December 2006 (CST)

Ok. I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned this, but the Temple of Five "priests" == five missing Cylon models, which are devoted to the one god, a jealous god... connection? Luis F. Gonzalez 00:35, 19 December 2006 (CST)

Maybe. Maybe. A group of humans who are connected with creation of the first humanoid Cylons? Another link to the Lords of Kobol and the Cylon god? Baltar's ultimate destiny? Much will be answered in the next episode... --Spencerian 07:50, 19 December 2006 (CST)

This leaves one logic gap: the temple is thousands of years old (since the exodus from Kobol happened thousands of years ago), but the humanoid Cylons cannot be more than 50 years old. How can they possibly be connected? --Catrope 10:53, 19 December 2006 (CST)

Actually the agents couldn't be more than 40 (assuming that only the original chrome-jobs existed at the armistice and made the humanoids, at the earliest, within a year after their exile). Series information tells us that Cylon agents were in the Colonial's midst no earlier than 2 years prior to the miniseries. The number that the Colonials date the structure is about 4,000 years. This approximates the time of the Thirteenth Tribe's exodus, at about 3,600 years (see Pythia). The mystery likely involves what Roslin read from the Scrolls: the Temple's five obelisks represent five human priests (Cylons in any form did not exist, or so we think) that worshiped the One Who Name Cannot Be (something). Could that entity be the Cylon God (believed to be the "jealous" God of Kobol that led to the tribal exodus)? Dodona Selloi, a human oracle, also relays a message from the Cylon God to D'Anna-Three, further suggesting that the Cylon God and the Lords are Kobol are connected. The Hybrid's information about the Eye of Jupiter further reinforces a connection. We know much, and yet so little. That alone gives you a big "holy frak" feeling after watching this cliffhanger. --Spencerian 12:47, 19 December 2006 (CST)

I see two plausible theories here:

1. The fact that there are five missing models and five priests is just a coincidence. The Final Five left Cylon society for some reason and ran across an abandoned manmade temple, which just happened to contain a lot of reference to the number five. Deducing that it had to be the Temple of Five the Scriptures write about, they thought it fitting to leave clues to their identity there.

2. The Final Five were somehow 'possessed' (or something similar) by the 'ghosts' of the five priests, and were threatened to be boxed for that, so they fled. They hid clues in the Temple of the Five, a place which they could easily find and was of great importance to them.

Or 3. The Cycle of Time - The past equals the present. ($PAST == $PRESENT) The five priests of the one jealous god in the past are the same as the five Cylons models. The five in the past came to the same conclusions as the five in the present. Luis F. Gonzalez 12:53, 23 December 2006 (CST)

Both are plausible, but depend on unlikely things: #1 depends on extreme coincidence (five priests, five final models who just happen to find the temple), #2 depends on spiritual things like possession. I hope someone else can come up with a more likely theory. --Catrope 13:49, 19 December 2006 (CST)