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The four toed foot - it's been baffling me for ages. That was until this morning when I dug a little deeper using some of the great theories already here.

I'm strongly leaning toward the fact that the statue is very old, likely from ancient Egyptian times - specifically Tutankhamun (I'll get to why King Tut specifically shortly), and that it's part of a statue of Anubis - for a number of reasons:

1. it's widely discussed that the "smoke monster" has of late perhaps shown signs of being "dog-like" - with ears, snout, teeth - Anubis is typically known as a figure with a human body and the head of a dog (others also believe it could be a jackal, fox, or wolf)

2. Anubis was the Egyptian god that cared for the bodies of the dead - and we can assume that the dead are buried underground, hence the smoke monster appearing from underground, and subsequently scuttling back underground - usually dragging a LOST character with it

3. Inside King Tutankhamun's tomb they found its very own Anubis statue guarding the "treasure room" - with 5 toes on its forefeet, and 4 toes on its hindfeet

4. Anubis was the god of the Underworld - weren't the Swan hatch hieroglyphs translated into the word "Underworld"?

5. The many references to Cerberus - Cerberus is thought to be linked to Anubis and is the 3 headed dog guardian of Hades

6. Charlotte said that "this place is death" - perhaps another reference to an "Underworld"

I'm convinced the four toed statue is of Anubis for these very reasons.

Thoughts?

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