Themes
While the film is not easily approached —lacking both dialogue and discernible cultural symbols— it does contain references to various religious and pagan myths. Christian elements are present in the impregnation of Mother Earth by a God, akin to the impregnation of Mary by The Holy Spirit. A similar story is partly present in ancient Egyptian mythology, where Isis impregnates herself with the penis of the killed god Osiris and gives birth to Horus.
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