Raised By Wolves Season 1 Ending Explained: What is Mother’s Seventh Child? Who is Sol?

The first season of Raised by Wolves has ended on HBO Max with the guarantee of a second season already assured that will continue the story of this science fiction story that Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) has created out of all of Ridley Scott’s obsessions. It’s comforting to know that the series continues, as the season finale of Raised by Wolves has left few questions hanging in the air.

In fact, the tenth chapter (one of those directed by the very young Luke Scott) stands out for the number of new questions it raises about the mysteries of the planet Kepler-22B and the future of the protagonists, whether they are humans or androids. Let’s see which are the main ones.

Raised By Wolves Season 1 Ending Explained: What is Mother’s Seventh Child?

The seventh son of Mother, the alien creature with sharp teeth that unexpectedly emerges from the belly of the protagonist android is a real surprise that leaves both the characters and the spectators really amazed. Where did that creature come from? Who is? Who is the father of the child? It is not known and, although Ridley Scott has a real passion for monsters with sharp teeth that protrude from the abdomens of young mothers (Alien, Prometheus), this monster seems to be different from the most famous alien with the elongated head in the cinema.

The seventh son of a mother, in fact, similar to a half mechanical and half biological snake, could be the son of one of the creatures that populated the planet and of which only large skeletons are seen for almost the entire series. A deity, a higher being linked to the story of Kepler-22 b who fertilized Mother while interfacing with the AR program. Mother and Father would therefore be the Adam and Eve of a new race that descends from the one that previously inhabited the planet and of which, in addition to the skeletons, it is possible to notice rock paintings during the last episode.

Who Are The Other Inhabitants Of The Planet Kepler-22 B?

However, snake creatures are not the only ones to inhabit the planet, there are also humanoid beings who initially appear to be human beings in the early stages of their evolution. Neandherthals who have yet to reach full physical and intellectual development. Over time, however, mother realizes that these creatures are not evolving but devolving. Is their evolution therefore inverse or is it a development that will lead them to become snake creatures?

Who is Sol? Is He Responsible For The Mass Views?

To better understand Raised by Wolves and its mysteries, it is also necessary to follow the religious plot that develops over the course of the 10 episodes of the first season and which at the end of the last episode appears very far from its conclusion. Wanting to put science fiction aside, it seems quite clear that the two protagonists androids are used as an instrument of a higher entity: most likely Sol, the god of the Mithraic religion (the one that is opposed to the Atheists). It is probably he who guides all the characters towards their destiny thanks to the visions that almost all have and which show objects, future events and mysteries of the past.

What’s Going to Happen to Mother’s Baby? 

The biggest reveal of the season finale is the delivery of Mother, the android played by Amanda Collin. Inexplicably pregnant during her augmented reality sessions, Mother finally gives birth to the being she has been gestating to discover to her horror that it is a species of flying lamprey. And nothing cute; Raised by Wolves’ galaxy bug skin does not pull the same path as Bay Yoda.

Upon discovering that the bug can pose a very serious danger to their offspring, Mother and Father (Abubakar Salim) sacrifice themselves by getting inside their ship with him and heading to the center of the planet. When they reach the nucleus, which sperm approaching an ovum (just one of the many allegories about the creation of life that the series has shown) it seems that it will be the end.

However, in an unexpected turn of events, the ship passes through the core of the planet and emerges from another side. It precisely crashes into the fertile tropical zone that the human protagonists dreamed of. The bad news is that the baby lamprey has arrived much larger and, breaking the glass of the ship, escapes freely to float around.

It is on its way to being the gigantic size of those skeletons that were on the other side of the planet; something that Guzikowski himself has confirmed in Collider:  “It is the same species of snake, but with some differences. A sort of hybrid, since it comes from Mother, and may have different attributes from those of the original species” Perhaps the ability to fly?

Are Mother and Father Alive?

Ok, if the snake/lamprey has arrived alive and well (sorry), what about our favorite almost-practically-human androids? In their last failed attempt to finish off the monster, once they have reappeared on the other side of the planet, they jump from the ship to great heights in the hope that the collision of the vehicle with the ground will destroy the bug. We see that their plan does not work, so we hope that thanks to the synthetic bodies they too have withstood their own impacts.

Who Are Those Figures With a Cape?

Mother had a most disturbing vision when she scanned some metallic tables that look like Tarot cards. In the last episode we could see more images, where some hooded figures congregate around an alien creature performing what seems to be a kind of ritual. It is clear that they are in Kepler-22B but we do not know who they are or what the hell they are doing. Only someone who looks like one of them comes later to attack Mother.

Are they Involved Humans? Why?

At first glance, the hooded guy attacking Mother looks like an evolved, humanoid version of the other semi-xenomorphic creatures we’ve seen in the rest of the series (and which introduced a whole subplot about the ethics of veganism). But the Neanderthal skull that he wears raises other more disturbing questions:  “They have not evolved, they have regressed,” says Mother. Not only that, but these regressed humans appear to originate from Kepler-22B and in no case from Earth.

Has All This Happened Before?

The cave paintings Paul (Felix Jamieson) finds in a cave look like an illustrated recap of the first season of Raised by Wolves. You see not only the arrival of two figures (androids?) In a ship with fetuses, but also the gigantic serpent at the end. We are supposed to be dealing with recent events, 13 years ago. However, if these paintings could have hundreds … are we facing an extreme case of history that repeats itself? Time loop?

Who’s Coming In That New Ship?

The trajectory of Marcus/Caleb (Travis Fimmel) has been the most eventful. It is about an atheist soldier who, together with his partner Mary / Sue (Niamh Algar), assumed the identity of two Mithriacs: Paul’s parents, whom they killed and had their faces grafted on. Only, already on Kepler-22B, Marcus has had the closest thing to a mystical revelation, fully converting to the faith of the Sun God. Not only that, but he’s also gone pretty crazy. At the end of the last episode, he finds, half as a real experience and half as a hallucination, a group of atheist survivors whom he liquidates. But we see that a new ship is approaching the planet. 

Who comes on board? Guzikowski assures that, although it is a ship of Mithriac construction, the atheists stole it on Earth and they are the ones who come inside… Will the same war of religion that devastated the Earth be played on Kepler-22B? This planet is already devastated enough to put more cane into it …