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The names

• In the Bible, Adam was created from dust. In the Jahwist and Priestly sources for the first five books of Genesis we are told that the Hebrew word for dust (or red earth) is "adamah". (Gen. 2), from which the translation "Adam" comes. The Hebrew word is spelled alef, daled, mem. The words here are a metaphor in themselves for the connection between man and his origins "adam(ah)". Further, it suggests the concept of a cycle - man comes from dust and (as the funeral service notes) returns to dust. This is also written of in Hasidic literature, that Adam was the first to walk the earth and he returned to it. This is a pointer to the fact that time on the Island can be thought of as a cycle, and fits into the comment that Adam and Eve are linked to the Island's "timeline". "Adam" in the Old Testament is actually said not to be a name, but rather the Hebrew word for mankind. "Eve" (Hebrew "Hevah") is also the word for "womb".
• In the Bible, Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs. The human body has 24 ribs, so the real Adam would have 23 ribs.

The stones

• The black and white stones could also be a reference to yin and yang. This ties into the online theories of "twinness" that Rousseau proposed. This also relates to Boone's t-shirt (84), and the original status of Adam and Eve as created from a whole (if Eve was created from Adam's rib, then together they constitute a whole. Apart, like yin and yang, two complementary parts of one). The yin and yang symbol can also be seen in the Hanso Foundation logo.
• Locke introduces Backgammon as a game where "there are two players; one light, and one dark."
• The two people died in a suicide pact, and used the stones to determine who would kill the other first, like drawing straws. They commited suicide to avoid some horrible fate (perhaps the Sickness).
• The stones are just being used as a plot device to give conclusive proof of who the skeletons are. So whoever has them last at the end of the show, we will know that it is there skeletons.

Identities

• • We now have confirmed information not only that the inhabitants of the island can move back and forth in time, but also that any of the O6 who return will never be allowed to leave. This is enough to suggest that Adam and Eve could very well be revealed to be two of the main cast in the show, possibly even Jack and Kate.
• Miles will reveal their identities.
  • Miles will reveal that they are Pierre Chang and Mrs. Chang, we'll learn more about the purge and possibly learn that they are Miles' parents.
    • This is unlikely since the Changs were around 30 years ago, maybe sooner.

A4993-E3

• Possibly A and E are references to Adam and Eve with 4993 a year of significance.

Miscellaneous

• Given the reference to an anagram in the episode "Not in Portland", it is interesting that one can rearrange the letters of the backwards message on the Room 23 video, "only fools are enslaved by time and space", into a sentence that will include "Adam and Eve".
  • The anagram can include "lost on isle".
  • Here is a complete anagram, though a bit clumsy: "Fans: Adam (Ebony), Eve (Pearl) end Lost cosily". This anagram refers to the notion that Adam and Eve may actually be the last two inhabitants of the Island, and references the two stones. Cosily is an alternate, old spelling of cozily: if they were the last inhabitants, then at least one of them had to lay down in that exact position to die.
    • Possibly the "last" people ever to be on the island, considering A4993-E3, could mean in 4993.
    • Possibly a meta-reference to the producer's claims that Adam and Eve prove that they had the show planned out from the beginning
  • "Alas, Penny is by Desmond; O, a cave foretell" also works, I believe. It's a little weak, but I think I'm onto something. Desmond swore he'd never leave her side, and they all "have to go back."
• Interestingly, there is an apocryphal 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.
• Two islands are famous in the Tongan mythos : 'Ata and 'Eua. They are told to be children of the primal being (Tonga) and the first places where Melanese people from the west came and settled. They are also parabolized as the first oceanian couple. Oceania is populated by two major ethnic groups : Polynesians (white) and Melanesians (black).[1]
• The time frame of Adam and Eve of being dead 40 to 50 years by Jack's estimate is based on his "real time" deduction. But we know that time moves at a different rate on the island, so we can make the assumption that these people may have been dead much longer. There is one estimate out there that time moves roughly at 1/64 normal time on the island. With this in mind it opens up many possible routes.
  • There is no evidence whatsoever that time moves at as different rate off the island. In fact every piece of evidence suggests time moves exactly the same rate. (DHARMA's presence on the island, the time between the 815s crashing and escaping, the time between Juliet arriving and her seeing her sister on the video three years later). The only discrepancy comes with a slight time dilation upon entering or leaving the island.
    • Until season five.

Character(s)	Reasoning
A native group (pre-DHARMA).	The skeletons could be part of a native group that was on the Island before the DHARMA Initiative. They could have also built the Four-Toed statue, or descended from these people.
Descendants from the Black Rock.	Descendants from the Black Rock who died on island.
Jacob and an unknown female.	In the last chapter of Genesis, Jacob is buried in a cave with Leah. Since Adam and Eve are created in the first chapter of Genesis, the survivors use of them as a nickname could be a hint. The Room 23 video also alludes to Jacob as a godlike being which suggests that his presence may not be physical, consistent with his death.
World War 2 service people.	Based on the 40-50 year estimate of their clothing deterioration made by Jack. The white and black stones may symbolize they were on different sides, perhaps similarly to the movie Hell in the Pacific.
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan.	Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noon were lost over the Pacific in 1937. Their plane could have been brought down just like Oceanic Flight 815.
Mikhail Bakunin and Bea Klugh.	Mikhail and Bea seem profoundly committed to the Island and have a strong relationship to one another. Bea asked Mikhail to kill her (arguably unnecessarily) rather than compromise with the Losties. Mikhail appears to have sustained life threatening - if not lethal - injuries on multiple occasions (thrown into the sonic fence by Locke, shot with a spear gun by Desmond, blowing himself up with a grenade). After shooting Bea, Mikhail begged the Sayid to kill him, and thanked Locke for attempting to do so. Their common, astonishing lack of concern for their own mortality, as well as at least Mikhail's reappearance after these injuries, may suggest that they are in fact already dead and that they are both merely apparitions. Just as Yemi's corpse sat in the crashed plane while the image of Yemi was somehow appropriated by a force on the island, Mikhail and Bea may be similarly manifestations of this force. Thus they are not concerned with their own mortality. The black and white stones may be a reference to this power, or perhaps more obviously, sentimental tokens representative of their surface difference in race, as well as their similarity (two roughly identical stones in all other ways besides color).
Are a man and woman who are undead apparitions "living" on the island	We have seen that (at least unburied) individuals whose dead bodies are on the island can exist as apparitions, somehow separate from those bodies in their prior form (i.e Hurley and Locke see Christian). This makes it possible that "adam" and "eve" are characters who are known to us. Clues to their identity might be that: 1) They would have no desire to leave the island since it apparently allows them to continue their existence - a clue that they are probably among the Others and (2) they are not afraid of death since they are ostensibly immortal.
Are Jack and Kate	Jack and Kate never return to the Island in their own time. They arrive there before the Dharma Initiative and perhaps even The Hostiles. We have seen time travel in the final episode of season four and throughout season 5. Jack and Kate live out the rest of their lives on The Island living in the caves and are laid to rest there by The Hostiles when they arrive. Watch "House of the Rising Sun" again and pay attention to the dialog between Kate and Jack when they find the skeletons. Also, note the wonderful "time loop" of Jack finding the stones with the bodies, and of course the bodies have the stones because Jack brought them back with him when he and Kate returned, to later die in the caves, to be discovered by Jack, who takes the stones...
Are Rose and Bernard	We know they are planning to stay on the island. The beads: One Black, One White.
Are Sawyer and Juliet	Sawyer and Juliet are now trapped on the island. For reasons yet unknown they will not be a part of the The Hostiles group and live in the caves where they will die.
Are Desmond and Penny	As the writers foreshadowed Sayid's workings with Ben by having him say, "Forgive me, but the day I start trusting [Ben] is the day I would've sold my soul" in "The Economist", they may as well have foreshadowed Desmond's returning to the Island with Penny when he says to Sayid or Faraday something along the lines of "[I'm never stepping foot on that bloody island again.]" He probably would consider doing this once he realizes the danger everyone else left on the Island is in. Plus, "All of you have to go back" may include Desmond, and he definitely wouldn't leave Penny alone again.
Are Aaron and Ji Yeon Kwon	If the island moved back in time then the Oceanic 6 and anyone else will need to go back to that point in time. Aaron and Ji Yeon will grow up on the island but in the past. Because time course corrects there was never any direct evidence of the Oceanic 6 to be found by anyone on the island in seasons 1-4 (ranging from the castaways themselves, the others, the freighties, the tailes, Dharma, Danielle, Desmond, Kelvin etc). Claire's dream way back in season one about Aaron's crib and Locke having one white eye and one black references this fate for Aaron. Aaron and Ji Yeon were both born under special circumstances. Aaron was conceived off the island but born on the island. Ji Yeon was conceived on the island but born off the island. In The Lie, Sun comments that it would be nice if Aaron and Ji Yeon could play together.
Charlotte and an unknown male	Charlotte is clearly suffering from time-sickness, and could die as a result. If she dies while the island and its inhabitants are in the past, she could be the female body. So far, no one else is showing signs of time-sickness.
Mrs. Hawking and Alpert	Mrs. Hawking(White Hair, White stone/Alpert(Black Hair, dark eyes)the only true originals and sentinels of the island