In season one in the episode where jack finds the caves and the waterfall. He also finds to skeletal remains of to people who he nicknames 'adam and eve' he also finds to gems a black one and a white one.

I was just wondering why these findings wernt brought up and discussed on the show to find out who these people where and also i was wondering if any1 nos what the gems mean and do they have any significance because im a little confused as to why they were there........please help me!

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to gems a black one and a white one.

Well I never understood why they didn't discuss the people but I guess they were very stressed at the time.

Black and white is used symbolically throughout LOST to represent good and evil. Black and white gems, black and white counters on the backgammon board and in Claire's dream Locke had 1 black eye and 1 white eye. Other than that I haven't got a clue.

Yeah I wondered about that. Jack also hides them from Locke aswell when he comes in.

And Locke had a pair too when he was playing with Walt in the third episode I think it was.

stating the ovious here...but the stones are the same as the ones in the untold bit on the c4 lost website.

I dont reckon adam and eve had much significance i reckon they were just there to show the audience that the survivors wernt the first ones on the island or something.

Yer i just rewatched the second episode, where Locke tells Walt about back gammon "2 sides, one light, one dark" then he asks walt it he wants to know a secret i watched that bit a few times to pick somthing up,but i dont know what he was getting at

Heres everything I know / think about the black and white gems :

Appeared - Locke showing Walt the blackgammon counters ( 'one light . . . one dark ' )
- Jack finding one black gem , one white gem on ' Adam and Eve'
- Locke had one dark eye and one light eye in Claire's dream

I believe they represent science / faith , good / evil . Which one of them or if it's something totally different i don't know .

Hmm maybe, hopfully will talk about them more in next season

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Originally posted by Lostfanross:
Hmm maybe, hopfully will talk about them more in next season

Yeah I'm expecting there to be more on it in season 2 . After it's caused much thinking about what they represent , it would be silly for them not to return .

Yer just like the so many other things they need to explan!......like why jacks shirt was so clean and neat in the first episode after the crash

i know this was a long time ago, but i've having one of my little thinks about lost
(almost like a flashback ) and a thought occurred to me regarding adam and eve

Who put them there?
because unless they both died in a little cave, lying flat on their backs with their arms crossed over their chests(or whatever positon they were in), someone must have put them in that position

Having said that, one idea i have about them is that perhaps they were a couple who got stranded on the island and lived their for years and years, but eventually, one of them died, an the other one couldn't cope with the loneliness, and layed down next to where they'd put their partner and just waited to die

I truly believe that Adam and Eve will be the answer that is staring us in the face but we cannot see it. In 2010 when Lost finishes we will all go - ohhhh yeah, darn it!

The quote below is also posted in my space time continuum theory but I will post it hear to as it is VERY relevant:

** "What is the meaning or significance of the two skeletons that Jack and Kate found in the cave of season 1?"

CUSE: The answer to that question goes to the nature of the timeline of the island. We don't want to say too much about it, but there are a couple Easter eggs embedded in "Not in Portland", one of which is an anagram that actually sheds some light on the skeletons and hints at a larger mythological mystery that will start to unfold later in the season.

LINDELOF: There were certain things we knew from the very beginning. Independent of ever knowing when the end was going to be, we knew what it was going to be, and we wanted to start setting it up as early as season 1, or else people would think that we were making it up as we were going along. So the skeletons are the living -- or, I guess, slowly decomposing -- proof of that. When all is said and done, people are going to point to the skeletons and say, "That is proof that from the very beginning, they always knew that they were going to do this." **

maybe the skeletons are ACTUALLY adam and eve

...now THAT would be confusing

from not in portland the anagram is lost time refering possibly to live time travel blah blah all that kind of stuff and the possiblity that those gems were seen in flashes before your eyes means that i believe it to be penny and desmond

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penny and desmond

could be possible

Interestingly, there is an apocraphal book of the New Testament, written in Syria in the 4th cent., called "The Cave of Treasures."

The book chronicles the "first 5,500 years" of human history and describes how, upon banishment from Eden, Adam and Eve settled in a cave. It is in this cave that they begin to sire the "good people" that make up the human race. Meanwhile, the exiled Cain, is starting his own extended family in the valley below. These are the "bad people," who engage in all sorts of wickedness. The conflict between these two groups comprises most of the first "2,000" years.

oooo interesting, thanks for that Horsey!

bump

i _knew_ the skeletons were important! i hadn't read this but just like 5mins ago i posted i thought they were!
now about the gems:
i think its an over simplification to interpret them as good and evil. the lines round the dharma signs are i ching tri-grams as everyone prbably knows. i-ching is basically an attempt to explain all of human experience as a binary system, 0 or 1, - - or ---, these are the same as yin and yang which aren't good and evil. all things are constructed of both dark and light just like a 3d object is constructed of hilight and shadow. the aim of the game is to get perfect balance between the two, not to triumph one over the other hence one black eye one light eye.

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The book chronicles the "first 5,500 years" of human history and describes how, upon banishment from Eden, Adam and Eve settled in a cave. It is in this cave that they begin to sire the "good people" that make up the human race. Meanwhile, the exiled Cain, is starting his own extended family in the valley below. These are the "bad people," who engage in all sorts of wickedness. The conflict between these two groups comprises most of the first "2,000" years.

Maybe its the Losties & the Others.....The Others were taking "Good People" wernt they?

what are the chances that they actually are adam and eve? not metaphorically, but literally? and the island is the garden of eden?
hanso were there to bite the apple of knowledge and the others are trying to protect it... maybe the monster is the serpent...

nah doubt it.