Donald

Season: 2, Episodes: 1, Faction: Survivors

Overview

Donald was a tail section survivor of Oceanic Flight 815.

Healing

Sun (Fire)

Fertility (Water)

Intelligence (Knowledge)

On the Island (Days 1-5)

2×07 – The Other 48 Days

After crashing into the ocean, Donald dragged himself out the water and was helped by Ana Lucia, who, however, left him when she saw that Emma was in danger of dying and needed to be revived. Donald suffered from a major leg fracture due to the crash; it was Libby who put the bone back in place, though Donald passed out because of the pain.

However, Donald succumbed to his injuries five days after the crash, due to an infection of the injured leg, and became the fourth death among the tail section survivors. He was buried by Nathan and Goodwin. (“The Other 48 Days”)

Post-Death

2×18 – Dave

Libby referenced Donald’s existence as proof to Hurley that the Island was in fact not a mere fabrication of Hurley’s imagination. (“Dave”)

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Decoded Season 2 Characters

Nathan

Man on Beach

Goodwin Stanhope

Libby Smith

Ana Lucia Cortez

Hurley Reyes

Mr. Eko

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

2x07 "The Other 48 Days"

Wiki Info

In Greek mythology, Cedalion or Kedalion was a servant of Hephaestus in Lemnos. According to one tradition, he was Hephaestus’s tutor, with whom Hera fostered her son on Naxos to teach him smithcraft. Kerenyi compares him to the Cabeiri, to Chiron, and to Prometheus.

The more common story of Cedalion tells of his part in the healing of Orion, who came to Lemnos after he was blinded by Oenopion. Orion took up Cedalion and set the youth upon his shoulders for a guide to the East. There the rays of Helios restored Orion’s sight.

Sophocles wrote a satyr play Cedalion, of which a few words survive. Its plot is uncertain, whether the blinding of Orion by Oenopion and the satyrs on Chios, probably with Cedalion offstage and prophesied, or the recovery of Orion’s sight on Lemnos. It has also been suggested that the subject may be Hephaestus’s fostering; or the instructions given to the blinded Orion by satyrs in Cedalion’s service. One of the surviving lines suggests extreme drunkenness; Burkert reads this fragment as from a chorus of Cabeiri.

One traditional etymology is from kēdeuein “to take charge, to care for”, and early nineteenth century scholars agreed. Scholars since Wilamowitz, however, support the other traditional interpretation, as “phallos”, from a different sense of the same verb: “to marry” (said of the groom).

Wilamowitz speculates that Cedalion is the dwarf in the Louvre relief showing Dionysius in Hephaestus’ workplace.

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