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i thought he was talking about the first, infantile assault on earth against the mac guns. (cheif fights in this battle at the beginning of Halo 2)
he could also simply be refering to those that escaped the fall of reach, or that the covenant believed reach to be the human homeworld and expected to kill us all then.
he could be talking about events we havent heard of, though i doubt human history would fail to include an epic battle with an alien race, and probably couldnt have won one either.
the prophet could be talking about events nobody's heard of yet, for example, when tartarus forces miranda keys to activate the halo (near the end of halo 2,) that suggest that humans are the forunner's ancestors who used the ARK (the artifact on earth) to escape the flood, and thus are the only sentient lives capable of activating the halos (the great journey/huge panoply of destruction that ended the flood)
until the rings,(god) destroyed the flood, and the ARK, a forerunner (aka human) spaceship settled upon earth.
(the ARK of the Covenant is a biblical reference to a large box used to hold the 10 commandments and well as other mysteries of god)
(in the halo universes case, the ARK immediately pertains to the biblical story of moses and his escape from the flood send by god to clense the world/universe)
(the ark of the covenant is used in battle as a great weapon by the hebrews in the bible (the people of god), possibly alluding to the cheif, who's mjolinir armor is also refered to in Norse myth, it could also allude to the power of the seven rings.)
(the ARK in halo, may actually be both Noahs Ark, and the ARK of the Covenant. The anchient artifact, the ARK from halo which saved humanity (the forerunners) from the flood, may also be filled with the mysteries of "god" and by that contain the sercret of the past of humanity which may have been hidden by adam and eve to protect humanity from rediscovering the flood)
(Thor, a god in norse mythos, weilds Mjolnir, a mighty weapon of unimaginable power crafted and tampered with by loki.)
maybe the ARK was full of children, or maybe everyone on board suffered amnesia and forgot how they arrived their.
perhaps they purposely erased their memory to avoid ever discovering slip space, and thus eventually/inevitably, rediscovering the flood.
Adam and Eve, in the western origin of creation are believed to be the parents and decendents of all humankind by all faithful jews, muslims, and christians....
they may have been the only 2 survivors of the Flood and the destruction brought by the rings, saved by the ark, and in an effort to shield us from rediscovering the flood, purposefully hid the ARK and all technology from their future generations?
devoid of technology, humans would have likely lost their past in myths because of just how accurately information travels by word of mouth, and the result was christianity, judiasm, and islam, and of course, the loss of their true origins.
maybe =)
7 rings= 7 days of the week = 7th day we rest to worship= 7th column...
Kabaa---
the kaaba is a large black cube, said to be a meteorite that fell before adam, and was rediscovered by abraham... it is kissed and worship by all followers of islam, all of whom are required to make the return home to mecca at least once in their lifetimes.
this could be an artifact remnant of the forunners (humans) that has fallen into our own (newer) mythologies and myths, and of course been reinterpreted.
it is possible, that the ARK is hidden under the kabaa, or the kabaa is simply the tip of the ARK itself, or a shard of it broken off.
[Edited on 5/9/2006]