was the (green crystal) alien mural another door?

@Koujilovesdrhell I have to disagree with you. Yes there is green goo on the control panel for the door, but i seriously doubt its related to a certain alien species leaving residue behind. Its not acid or it would have eaten through his glove/fingers it also isnt blood. You can tell because when he pulls his fingers apart it starts acting almost like a conductor, like there is some sort of power/electricity inside. I thought maybe it was just something like our battery acid here where the ship was sitting there for so long un used that the buttons started to erode and the electrical conductor behind them was seeping out. But I could be wrong thats just my theory. I think the part about the engineers running into the ampule room and also us never seeing them come out or their bodies not found inside + mysterious green crystal is very intriguing. It's going to be another mystery that keeps us occupied for a long time, just like the space jockey scene in the first alien. I mean they showed us the mural and the green crystal deliberately in the movie, which they could have left out. That means they want us to acknowledge its existence and ponder on how those two could be related.

@Engineering I would agree with you about the mural being a Giger-esque easter egg to fanbois, only if it had been more subtle. I mean the mural is huge and its more than just a mural, its not just a painting..its got a sculpture coming out of it. Which means the engineers who designed the ship wall/door...whatever it is, have encountered this type of xeno before. I just have a hard time believing its an easter egg considering how big it is and how obvious it is. Usually easter eggs are something you have to hunt for in movie, things that arent so obvious. About Holloway saying its just another grave, we dont know what context. We have no idea if hes talking about that room, i very well believe hes talking about the planet/ship. After seeing a recording like that, i can understand him. He just say what he believes to be his makers running in fear of something and then finding one actually dead...kind of a buzz kill lol. I do agree with the green goo that David finds "impressive". This needs to be explored more whether it being a conductor with some form of power/electricity inside or molecules moving around. The green goo when I think about it, I would naturally assume this is inside those big bubble like buttons that are in the navigation chamber control panel. I would think this kind of goo is inside those, it reacts to compression as in someone "pushing" them in to relay some kind of signal to something.

@Ta2punk...I wasn't saying the entire mural was simply a Giger easter egg. I was saying that the 2 images in each bottom corner that shows Giger's original facehugger design was an easter egg. The mural itself, as has been said by many of the filmakers many different times, is meant to infer that the Engineers worship the pure form of what the black goo creates. BTW...I've said it before but the green goo on the controls looks a lot like what comes out of franken-engineer's head when it blows up due to infection. Maybe an engineers head exploded and sprayed goo all over that panel.

Oh, about the queen. The structure on either side of the xeno head is only a slightly stylized rendition of the original queen's head plate from Aliens.

@Myrddin365 Im not sure if Ridley would pay tribute to the alien queen provided it wasnt even in the alien film he directed, it was something Cameron dreamt up and was horrible imho. A xeno queen...yeah like that would happen to a xeno, theyre killing machines not breeding machines. But who knows, maybe the black goo invaded someone and ended up changing into a queen based on the host.

YES, the goo on the switch. How long does that goo last, 2000 years?

Woah woah woah, Is that an image of an eye with a squigly like what happened to Holloway?? Geez that is cool. [IMG]http://i47.tinypic.com/28u2x3l.jpg[/IMG]

i dont think the alien/xeno-esque artwork in the ampule room is just an easter egg. There's too much of it. Also, various pieces show multiple facets of the lifecycle. there's to much implied by the artwork's presence for it to be meaningless. The giger facehuggers ARE visible in the film. In addition, one of the frescos on the ceiling (totally different piece from the bas relief) clearly shows a traditional Alien hand/arm and a traditional egg/spore. Both are visible in the film. The filmmakers cant just dump these images in the film for fun....otherwise, they would destroy their own bio-chronology. I think the filmmakers placed these pieces in the ampule room to provide clues (and they do!). @svanya: interesting.

Did you notice that on one of Prometheus trailer versions, instead of the Green Alien egg/crystal Holloway looks at, there's a container like the one used by the first Engineer to drink the black fluid??

yeah. noticed that. odd. why change the object on the altar unless one has a reason for doing so?

Probably is something related to Paradise movie, I suppose...

@Koujilovesdrhell I believe the reason that whatever was chasing the Engineers didn't show up on the recording, is because it only records lifeforms wearing the black bio-suits. So if a naked Engineer (like the one in the opening scene) was in the temple, he wouldn't show up.

I think it has a lot of significance and to me it looks like its a tomb of some kind, and the original in the trailers the Green Orb was instead the Sacrificial Bowl. I had thought that the tomb may had contained some element of the Xeno Organism or its Progenitor and that the Engineers was using that temple to re-engineer the Xeno. And thus behind that Mural could be some kind of plant that is used to break down the Xeno into the substance inside the Urns. But the new Weyland Files clues well now make my theory not plausible and at the same time confuse things even more so.

I think the control panel goo David discovers is some sort of technology, it appears to glisten with electric charge.

If the mural seems to us very signicant...why doesn't David see the importance too? In the movie was there any indication that the humans were the first visitors to this moon? I say that because thinking of the goo that David calls 'impressive'..the holographs...even sitting in the orrey's chair,,it seems like someone..or something is leading the storyline....not all the events could be by accident.. Ridley switched to the container for the release,,because it revealed too much of the hidden(from us).agenda/// I would be curiuous what Shaw/David did before they left the moon. Especially if Shaw was directed to go back in the caves..to check out a few storylines mentioned here.

This picture gives us a lot more insight into the human races part in all this. You can clearly see at the botton two humanoid like charicters at the bottom. It possibly could be a door.and this would clear up the dissapearance of the othe Engineers that run into the ampule room but are nowhere to be seen. The table with the green crystal does make it seem like some kind of place of worship. Just a note though. The humans that I quoted in the mural actually look more like the bald [url=http://whatistheprometheusmovieabout.blogspot.co.uk]Prometheus Engineers[/url]. It does lean towards looking like a lifecycle. It's a shame that this was not more explored in the movie. But it does get you thinking.