# Question about the first Omen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 24, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382 "2002-09-24T01:24:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/1 "2002-09-24T01:24:33Z")
I saw this for the first time in a long while on AMC the other night. In the scene where Gregory Peck & David Warner are opening the graves they find what looks like a dog skeleton in Damien’s birthmother’s grave. So he says he wants to open his real son’s tomb, **“because if its an animal too maybe he’s still alive”.** Of course he finds a baby human skeleton who’s skull was deliberately crushed so the switch would be made. So are they saying that Damien’s mother’s grave was a fake or are they saying that his birthmother was a jackal (ya know, Satan and all)? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/2 "2002-09-24T01:33:06Z")
they are saying that Damien’s mother was a jackal I was in high school in the 1970s when that came out & I was the school’s Bible prophecy expert & I had a never-ending debate with a friend who insisted the Bible did prophesy that the AntiChrist would be born from a jackal! LOL! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/3 "2002-09-24T15:28:42Z")
My first name conincides with the principal character. I was born in 1973. The movie came out in 1976. Obviously, the kids on the playground had a field day. Thanks, 20th Century Fox, for screwing up my childhood! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/4 "2002-09-24T15:28:42Z")
My first name conincides with the principal character. I was born in 1973. The movie came out in 1976. Obviously, the kids on the playground had a field day. Thanks, 20th Century Fox, for screwing up my childhood! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/5 "2002-09-24T15:31:22Z")
OK, I didn’t hit the “Submit” button, so I don’t know how that got posted once, much less twice…I think my browswer is posessed, possibly the the son of Satan. Waitaminute, that’d be me… Anyway, I meant to add “Naw, I’m not bitter… :)” so you’d know I’m really not psychotically obsessed with 20th Century Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/6 "2002-09-24T18:33:10Z")
Don’t feel bad, **Dewey**. We have a friend named Damian and I can’t remember the last time I simply referred to him by name w/o whispering “Damian Satan Damian Satan” - so I don’t think the timing of the movie’s first release has anything to do with it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/7 "2002-09-24T19:00:09Z")
Naw, my only point with the years is that my parents couldn’t have known any better. The irony is, I’m named after a Catholic priest who helped lepers in Hawaii. Imagine a girl being named “Teresa” and having a film come out using that name for a hellspawned character. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rug\_Burn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rug\_Burn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rug_Burn)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-first-omen/129382/8 "2002-09-24T19:03:24Z")
Damien is the absolute coolest name. I want to have a rottweiler and name it Damien in the worst way. Well, either that or Cosmo.