Film Shapes

This film, Alien: Covenant , takes place around 10 years after Prometheus. I think I get the meaning of the previous title - Greek mythology, creator of mankind, etc, but I wasn't too sure of the significance of the word 'covenant', aside from being a pact or agreement of sorts. So I was slightly disturbed to find this example from a site called the Christian Crier; This was the same covenant which God made with Abraham (Gen 17:2).  In this covenant Abraham asked God “Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?”  He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”  And he brought him all these, cut them in half , and laid each half over against the other” And the Lord God said, "What the fuck, Abe?!? I didn't ask you to slaughter them! Fucking sling your hook, you bloodthirsty clungenut!(Gen 15:8-10). This is, more or less, gospel, and without wishing to spoil an...