Another subtle allusion to David being a stand in for Satan is his love of flute playing. Remember him helping Walter with his fingering?
Here is a description of Satan from Ezekiel 28. Ezekiel Chapter 28 is comparing the prideful fall of the King of Tyre to the prideful fall Satan.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+28&version=KJV
13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy
pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Satan was described as having tabrets (tambourines) and pipes prepared in him upon his creation.
Here is the meaning of pipes in the Bible
Pipe [N]
(
1 Samuel 10:5 ;
1 Kings 1:40 ;
Isaiah 5:12 ;
30:29 ). The Hebrew word halil, so rendered, means "bored through," and is the name given to various kinds of wind instruments, as the fife, flute,
Pan-pipes, etc. In
Amos 6:5 this word is rendered "instrument of music." This instrument is mentioned also in the New Testament (
Matthew 11:17 ;
1 Corinthians 14:7 ). It is still used in Palestine, and is, as in ancient times, made of different materials, as reed, copper, bronze, etc.
The pan flute is named after
Pan, the Greek god of nature and
shepherds often depicted with such an instrument.
So Pan is the god of shepherds and David chose his name from a statue of the Biblical David who was a shepherd and David refers to himself as a shepherd in the film.
This is a statue of the god Pan showing Daphnis a man he was in love with to play the Pan pipes. This is very reminiscent of David teaching Walter to play the flute. The reason he taught Walter to play his pipe and later kissed him is that David is in love with himself in the same way that Satan is in love with himself and Walter is made in the same image as David.
Ezekiel 28:17
17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Satan took pride in his own beauty so much so that he lost his wisdom in that he thought he was greater than God. This sounds like David's appraisal of himself over humanity and Engineer alike.
Kind of a crazy random post but the whole flute thing was bugging me.
