Principal Reynolds

Season: 6, Episodes: 1, Faction: N/A

Overview

Donald Lawrence Reynolds was the principal of the Washington Tustin High School, at which Dr. Benjamin Linus and Leslie Arzt worked in the flash-sideways timeline and where John Locke also appeared as a substitute teacher.

Sky

Fertility (Water)

Fertility (Earth)

Sexuality

Leadership

6×07 – Dr. Linu s

Reynolds seemed to have a chilly relationship with Dr. Linus, dismissing the importance of the “History Club” that Ben ran and forcing Ben to oversee afternoon detentions instead. After learning of an extra-marital affair that occurred on school property between Don and the school nurse, Ben threatened to report Don to the school board. During a confrontation in Don’s office, Ben showed the principal printouts of indecent email exchanges (proof of the affair). He suggested that Don resign and nominate Ben as his replacement. Don, however, countered by threatening to write a scathing letter of recommendation for Alex Rousseau, one of Ben’s favorite students, who had asked Don for a letter to Yale University, his alma mater. Ultimately, Ben decided against reporting Don in exchange for a positive letter on Alex’s behalf, and Don retained his position as principal. (“Dr. Linus”)

Images Source | Image & Source

Related Character Images

Decoded Family Members & Lovers

Kim Kondracki (Lover)

Decoded Season 1 Characters

Leslie Arzt

John Locke

Decoded Season 2 & 3 Characters

Benjamin Linus

Alex Rousseau

Roger Linus

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

6x07 "Dr. Linus"

Wiki Info

Uranus (Ouranos meaning “sky”), was the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, according to Hesiod in his Theogony, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. Uranus and Gaia were ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and Uranus does not appear among the usual themes of Greek painted pottery. Elemental Earth, Sky and Styx might be joined, however, in a solemn invocation in Homeric epic.

Etymology

The most probable etymology is from the basic Proto-Greek form *(F)orsanόj (worsanos) derived from the noun *(F)orsό (worso, Sanskr.: varsa “rain” ). The relative PIE root is *ers “to moisten, to drip” (Sanskr.: varsati “to rain”), which is connected with the greek ourόw (Latin:”hourẻ”, Engl.: “urinate”, Comp. Sanskr.: var “water”) therefore Ouranos is the “rainmaker” or the “fertilizer”. Another possible etymology is “the one standing high in order” (Sanskr.: vars-man: height, lit. virus: upper, highest seat). The identification with the Vedic Varuna, god of the sky and waters, is uncertain. It is also possible that the name is deriven from the PIE root *wel: to cover, enclose (Varuna, Veles). or *wer: to cover, shut.

Genealogy

Most Greeks considered Uranus to be primordial (protogenos), and gave him no parentage, but rather being conceived from Chaos, the primal form of the universe, though in Theogony, Hesiod claims him to be the offspring of Gaia. Under the influence of the philosophers, Cicero, in De Natura Deorum (“Concerning the Nature of the Gods”), claims that he was the offspring of the ancient gods Aether and Hemera, Air and Day. According to the Orphic Hymns, Uranus was the son of the personification of night, Nyx.

Creation myth

Greek mythology

In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in the Theogony, Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him. Hesiod named their first six sons and six daughters the Titans, the three one-hundred-armed giants the Hecatonchires, and the one-eyed giants the Cyclopes.

Uranus imprisoned Gaia’s youngest children in Tartarus, deep within Earth, where they caused pain to Gaia. She shaped a great flint-bladed sickle and asked her sons to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus, youngest and most ambitious of the Titans, was willing: he ambushed his father and castrated him, casting the severed testicles into the sea.

For this fearful deed, Uranus called his sons Titanes Theoi, or “Straining Gods.”

From the blood that spilled from Uranus onto the Earth came forth the Gigantes, the Erinyes (the avenging Furies), the Meliae (the ash-tree nymphs), and, according to some, the Telchines.

From the genitals in the sea came forth Aphrodite. The learned Alexandrian poet Callimachus reported that the bloodied sickle had been buried in the earth at Zancle in Sicily, but the Romanized Greek traveller Pausanias was informed that the sickle had been thrown into the sea from the cape near Bolina, not far from Argyra on the coast of Achaea, whereas the historian Timaeus located the sickle at Corcyra; Corcyrans claimed to be descendants of the wholly legendary Phaeacia visited by Odysseus, and by circa 500 BCE one Greek mythographer, Acusilaus, was claiming that the Phaeacians had sprung from the very blood of Uranus’ castration.

After Uranus was deposed, Cronus re-imprisoned the Hecatonchires and Cyclopes in Tartarus. Uranus and Gaia then prophesied that Cronus in turn was destined to be overthrown by his own son, and so the Titan attempted to avoid this fate by devouring his young. Zeus, through deception by his mother Rhea, avoided this fate.

These ancient myths of distant origins were not expressed in cults among the Hellenes. The function of Uranus was as the vanquished god of an elder time, before real time began.

After his castration, the Sky came no more to cover the Earth at night, but held to its place, and “the original begetting came to an end” (Kerényi). Uranus was scarcely regarded as anthropomorphic, aside from the genitalia in the castration myth. He was simply the sky, which was conceived by the ancients as an overarching dome or roof of bronze, held in place (or turned on an axis) by the Titan Atlas. In formulaic expressions in the Homeric poems ouranos is sometimes an alternative to Olympus as the collective home of the gods; an obvious occurrence would be the moment at the end of Iliad I, when Thetis rises from the sea to plead with Zeus: “and early in the morning she rose up to greet Ouranos-and-Olympus and she found the son of Kronos …”

William Sale remarks that “… ‘Olympus’ is almost always used of [the home of the Olympian gods], but ouranos often refers to the natural sky above us without any suggestion that the gods, collectively live there,”. Sale concluded that the earlier seat of the gods was the actual Mount Olympus, from which the epic tradition by the time of Homer had transported them to the sky, ouranos. By the sixth century, when a “heavenly Aphrodite” (Urania) was to be distinguished from the “common Aphrodite of the people”, ouranos signifies purely the celestial sphere itself.

Image & Source