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<blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2478041" data-attributes="member: 307">Here's an interesting theory. Twelve shows up a lot in the series. Twelve colonies, the Quorum of Twelve, twelve snakes, twelve models of cylons, and so on.Now, I know where the original idea for the 12 Colonies came from in the old series - the twelve tribes of Israel, and then there was the &quot;lost&quot; tribe (presumably those humans who came to earth). But in the current series, the Lords of Kobol seem to be modeled on the Olympian gods (Apollo and Artemis have been explicitly mentioned). There were twelve Olympian gods, and our zodiac (based on Greek mythology, after which the 12 Colonies appear to be named) has twelve signs.I maintain (based on nothing other than a guess) that the Lords of Kobol were cylons of a previous &quot;cycle of history&quot;. The golden era when &quot;Gods and men lived in peace&quot; was the end of a previous war, when the cylon plan ground to a halt, and the cylons decided to try to reload, send the humans out of Kobol to recolonize, and try again a thousand years later. I think the cylons have tried this plan before, but in the past, it has stalled at Kobol due to some &quot;wrong&quot; choice made by the humans, requiring a &quot;reset&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storm Raven, post: 2478041, member: 307"] Here's an interesting theory. Twelve shows up a lot in the series. Twelve colonies, the Quorum of Twelve, twelve snakes, twelve models of cylons, and so on. Now, I know where the original idea for the 12 Colonies came from in the old series - the twelve tribes of Israel, and then there was the "lost" tribe (presumably those humans who came to earth). But in the current series, the Lords of Kobol seem to be modeled on the Olympian gods (Apollo and Artemis have been explicitly mentioned). There were twelve Olympian gods, and our zodiac (based on Greek mythology, after which the 12 Colonies appear to be named) has twelve signs. I maintain (based on nothing other than a guess) that the Lords of Kobol were cylons of a previous "cycle of history". The golden era when "Gods and men lived in peace" was the end of a previous war, when the cylon plan ground to a halt, and the cylons decided to try to reload, send the humans out of Kobol to recolonize, and try again a thousand years later. I think the cylons have tried this plan before, but in the past, it has stalled at Kobol due to some "wrong" choice made by the humans, requiring a "reset". [/QUOTE]

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