Tricia Tanaka

Season: 3, Episodes: 1, Faction: N/A

Overview

Tricia Tanaka was the newswoman from Action 8 News who reported on Hurley’s winning of the lottery, and his subsequent reopening of Mr. Cluck’s Chicken Shack.

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Sun (Fire)

3×10 – Tricia Tanaka Is Dead

Tanaka interviewed Hurley in front of Mr. Cluck’s, but quickly cut the interview short after Hurley started talking about his bad luck.

After Tanaka and her cameraman went inside Mr. Cluck’s to shoot additional footage, a meteorite crashed into and destroyed Mr. Cluck’s, killing Tricia Tanaka and the cameraman.

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Decoded Season 1 Characters

Hurley Reyes

Randy Nations

Tito Reyes

Carmen Reyes

Ken Halperin

Decoded Season 2 & 3 Characters

Johnny

Starla

Roger Linus

Camera Man

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

3x10 "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"

Wiki Info

In Greek mythology, Theia “goddess” or “divine” (sometimes written Thea or Thia), also called Euryphaessa “wide-shining,” was a Titan. The name Theia alone means simply, “goddess”; Theia Euryphaessa brings overtones of extent (“wide”) and brightness (“light”).

Earlier myths

Hesiod’s Theogony gives her an equally primal origin, a daughter of Gaia (Earth) and Uranos (Sky). In 42.a Robert Graves also relates that later Theia is referred to as the cow-eyed Euryphaessa who gave birth to Helios, the sun.

Later myths

Once paired in later myths with her Titan brother Hyperion as her husband, “mild-eyed Euryphaessa, the far-shining one” of the Homeric Hymn to Helios, was said to be the mother of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn).

Pindar praises Theia in his Fifth Isthmian ode:

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

She seems here a goddess of glittering in particular and of glory in general, but Pindar’s allusion to her as “Theia of many names” is telling, since it suggests assimilation, referring not only to similar mother-of-the-sun goddesses such as Phoebe and Leto, but perhaps also to more universalizing mother-figures such as Rhea and Cybele.

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