Talk:Polis/@comment-26269248-20160229210547

A while back some1 made a comment/discussion about wanting to know all of the religious symbolism of this show, and (while a bit of a stretch) I have thought of something regarding Polis.

Thanks to Bitter Harvest we now know that this Grounder tower is the 13th Station called Pol(ar)is that was presumed to be destroyed by the other 12 stations 97 years ago. But it crashed on Earth (vertically) and all of the Grounders are descendants of the people of this station. Plus, a fan theory by YouTuber Torchwood Boy is that the nuclear war did kill every1 on Earth so the people of Polis are the 1st Sky People to return to Earth. (Link: https://goo.gl/GzDuRo)

But now to the actual religious symbolism. In the Bible there is a story of the tower of Babel where man wanted to build a city to reach God in Heaven, but God wouldn't allow it and made every1 speak different languages to stop communication to build the tower and they all went their separate ways to form their own nations. This is in a sense the story of the Grounders but with an opposite origin; the tower descended from the heavens and (presumably) every1 in Polis (also has 5 letters) spoke the same language but over time separated from the city to form the 12 clans and 1 new language formed (Trigedasleng).

Like I said it is a bit of a stretch but that's the thing about the religious symbolism of this show; they reference elements of Christianity in a world were (again presumably) that religion no longer exists or has changed far beyond what it was in the world before.