primordial

In “Alien: Earth,” humanity is trapped between two existential threats — the primordial forces represented by the franchise’s Xenomorphs, and the still unknown AI of the future.

Its stars may be a refreshing, new sight among a whole lot of primordial fare, but by casting for charm, “Jurassic World Rebirth” unintentionally questions just how much appeal this franchise has left.

The figure resembles a yakshi - a powerful primordial nature spirit that can bestow both "abundance and fertility, as well as death and disease" - recognisable through her floral headdress, jewellery and full figure.

Bathers are an artistic signal for life crawling onto shore out of the primordial ooze or basking in a pastoral, prelapsarian paradise.

Inevitable are thoughts of ancient Stonehenge, or perhaps primordial cairns marking trails or burial grounds in premodern societies.