There is a lot made in the opening of David learning the most up to date interpretation of Vedic languages.
The proto-Greek deities like Uranus the sky/water god (he of the exploding testicles springing forth life from water) is directly related to the Hindu God Varuna.
Those guys acted much like the Engineers and had weapons like the Brahmastra which could destroy all life where it was aimed (it was a bow).
^this one is operated by a flute
and they have to wear an elephant mask
Buddhism is another Hindu offshoot.
It is highly probable Christianity is as much related to Buddhism as it is Judaism.
The Greeks and the Jews both have a woman as the vehicle of man's fall.
With the Greeks it's a jar which is delivered with Pandora to Epimetheus his brother was Prometheus.
All this stuff is up there on screen and it's wonderful.
Sadly the story (the things that actually happen on screen) is utter Mission To Mars style bobbins and so hacked about it feels like half of it is missing.
The Christian allusions are just as gaudy (the christmas tree, the cross, the cruciform self sacrifice of Holloway, the cruciform alien mural, the literally poisoned chalice, the serpent etc) but they are just design motifs not actual plot motifs.
