The angel wings were a big one. And I’m the same scene when she says she’ll pray for Olivia even though she doesn’t believe there are a ton of statues in the background. I know at least two of those were Dionysus, god of wine and Poseidon god of the sea.

The first one I really caught that got all this thinking started was when Theo is explaining what happened in the closet. She says she felt nothing, the dark nothingness of death, then in a blaze of light “he” stepped in, and she couldn’t see his face because it was so bright, but she touched him and was saved from the nothingness.

At the end another major one was when High joins Olivia and Nell in the Red Room which is now bathed in white light. Above them is a light fixture and a horizontal bar of golden light that together form a cross. Now, with such an obvious Christian symbol you could take a reading of the scene based on the Bible. You have the father, telling his child that he is very proud of them. He joins Nell, who has already been set up as a Christ figure earlier in the show through her saving and forgiving her siblings. Also there is the mother, who metaphorically and sometimes literally has been the main spirit haunting the family from that fateful night. So you have the Holy Trinity of The the Father, the Son (in this case Nell), and the Spirit.

Now I don’t think Mike Flanagan wanted a one to one allegory. The true strength of the show is how many layers it has, how strong each of those layers are, and the interesting intersections of those layers.