Petroglyphs on Uncle Owens ceiling

Is there any significance to the 'cave painting' that is on the ceiling of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's dining area? I don't remember seeing petroglyphs in any of the other films. is this unique to tattooine?

 

Ahh, im pretty sure its there during the Clet years.


CLone

 

What is a Clet year?

 

your guess is as good as mine

 

The Petroglyphs are the metaphoric maze through which Luke must go if he is ever going to a.) Make it to Toshi's station for said power converters. And b.) Get to the Academy before the harvest when Uncle Owen needs him the most.

 

Actually upon viewing the ANH commentary, Lucas says that the homesteads were based on a Tunisian sity that was primarily set up underground so it's conceivable that people had been living in these homesteads for hundreds of years and that ancient civilizations had lived in them. The petroglyphs could be just an ancient remnant of a lost age on tattoine...

 

Or it could just be a painting, nothing more. It's possible you know?

 

It's probably like our carpets or tapestry, only ceiling paintings. To look nice. I think the guys in Tunisia use it just for that
It's a small hotel or something, iirc.

Also, the Skywalker 'residence' in TPM has painted ceilings, too.

It's probably just the human desire to decorate their homes.

 

i seem to remember some rumor back in 1999 that the pattern on the lars dining room ceiling was identical to darth maul's face...

the things people come up with when they know they've got three years until another movie. makes me wonder what we're in store for knowing we soon won't have that.

 

"Or it could just be a painting, nothing more. It's possible you know? "

I agree. It's absolutely just decoration... Just like cave paintings of men hunting bison is just decoration, but when you turn an anthropolical eye on them, they can still have meaning. the things that people use to decorate their homes say something about these people. In our case, we have to ask if the decorations say something about the people living in the homes, or if they say something about Lucas? i think it's probably both. On one hand, the artwork seems to have agricultural roots, like rows of crops. It makes sense that they would paint a sort of tribute to their livelihood... and more deeply Lucas was trying to characterize Luke's life/path as being mazelike, as was posited earlier in this thread.

 

Art telling something about people? Isn't that just "EU rubbish"?

 

In our case, we have to ask if the decorations say something about the people living in the homes,,, On one hand, the artwork seems to have agricultural roots, like rows of crops. It makes sense that they would paint a sort of tribute to their livelihood

So moisture farmers would have paintings of crops instead of water?

 

Moisture crops, yeah. Don't they work the same way as regular crops? If you know something about the intricacies of moisture farming, don't hold back, I'd love to learn about it.

 

Clet years = when Clet Lars lived there.


So, they WERE there during the other films.

CLone

 

<<Is there any significance to the 'cave painting' that is on the ceiling of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's dining area? I don't remember seeing petroglyphs in any of the other films. is this unique to tattooine? >>

Painted there by Shmi Skywalker when she was married to Clegg Lars. Probably something to do with the Skywalker family which we know so little about beyond Shmi.

 

'Art telling something about people? Isn't that just "EU rubbish"?'

I'm not sure about the EU part, but it's certainly rubbish, TwiLekJedi.

 

RE "So moisture farmers would have paintings of crops instead of water?"

I will have you know that any yield from any farm is known as a "crop" regardless of whether they come in rows, streams or rivulets.

Let's try to ratchet down the haughty rhetoric gentlemen... This is after all a civilized universe.

 

Moisture crops, yeah. Don't they work the same way as regular crops?

Actually they don't. Crops are plants and they grow from a seed. Water does not grow. On Tatooine the water is collected from the atmosphere by the moisture 'vaporaters. The water is than collected from the catch basin in the 'vaporater.

 

Water comes from a seed.

 

"Actually they don't. Crops are plants and they grow from a seed. Water does not grow. On Tatooine the water is collected from the atmosphere by the moisture 'vaporaters. The water is than collected from the catch basin in the 'vaporater."

Cool, man. Thanks for the info, I didn?t know that; about the vaporater.

I have assumed that on Tatooine, moisture was harvested in some sort of scenario that resembled the Earth farming I am familiar with: rows of evenly spaced machines or devices collecting moisture, (resembling plants) harvested by a larger combine type device, then measured, and packaged for sale and transport.

But before I forget, you're not exactly correct on your definition of crop... Well maybe you are, but if you are the webster.com is wrong, because they give, among others, the following definition of crop: "the product or yield of something formed together <the ice crop>"

Further, I?m not sure why you begrudge me the use of agricultural terminology in reference to Owens Moisture farming. Do you object to Owen and Luke?s use of the word ?harvest??

 

Further, I?m not sure why you begrudge me the use of agricultural terminology in reference to Owens Moisture farming. Do you object to Owen and Luke?s use of the word ?harvest??

Nope. The word harvesting describes an action not the crop itself.

rows of evenly spaced machines or devices collecting moisture, (resembling plants) harvested by a larger combine type device, then measured, and packaged for sale and transport.

That's about it. From visual evidence in both ANH and TPM there do appear to be fields of vaporaters but I don't think there are in any concise rows.

To sum up, I don't think the paintings on the ceiling have anything to do w/moisture farming. I understand your point but I think this just happens to be a painting to make the ceiling look pretty, not any meaning to the painting itself.

Here's something I saw on the web once. It was a site explaining that because the painting looked like Darth Maul's tattoos, it was a Sith thing put there by Obi-wan to hide Luke's presence.

 

Clet years = when Clet Lars lived there?

WTH?

I think those were the Cleig years. But with the painting representations, it could have been twelve generations earlier when water was abundant on Tatooine.

 

Well played, DarthJohnKenobi. This has been an enjoyable exchange.