I'm developing another one of my long-winded metas on the religion thing but here is a short view of what I am seeing...
The 13th Lord of Kobol is the Cylon God. That's why the Cylons know the Colonial religion so well. In a way, they are part of it. According to what Roslin said about the Temple of Five, I'm assuming the 13th tribe was shunned by the others (Five priests devoted to the One Whose Name Cannot Be...). They cannot even utter the name of that Lord. That's why the 13th tribe left Kobol and headed for Earth -- their new Promised Land. I'm guessing that the 13th tribe were monotheists worshiping only that God while the other 12 tribes were polytheists worshiping the Gods, plural. Add to that a lot of Biblical references to the Exodus of the Hebrews(monotheistic) from Egypt(polytheistic). That's what happened before. In this new cycle of time, I see the Colonials and Cylons mingling on Earth, and that monotheism will be the dominant religion. The new "13th tribe" will be the remaining polytheist holdouts, who will be shunned and then go off on their own Exodus to find another new Promised Land.
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Date: 2007-01-18 06:27 pm (UTC)The 13th Lord of Kobol is the Cylon God. That's why the Cylons know the Colonial religion so well. In a way, they are part of it. According to what Roslin said about the Temple of Five, I'm assuming the 13th tribe was shunned by the others (Five priests devoted to the One Whose Name Cannot Be...). They cannot even utter the name of that Lord. That's why the 13th tribe left Kobol and headed for Earth -- their new Promised Land. I'm guessing that the 13th tribe were monotheists worshiping only that God while the other 12 tribes were polytheists worshiping the Gods, plural. Add to that a lot of Biblical references to the Exodus of the Hebrews(monotheistic) from Egypt(polytheistic). That's what happened before. In this new cycle of time, I see the Colonials and Cylons mingling on Earth, and that monotheism will be the dominant religion. The new "13th tribe" will be the remaining polytheist holdouts, who will be shunned and then go off on their own Exodus to find another new Promised Land.