Enligt showens titelkompositör, Bear McReary, sades mantra på begäran av Edward James Olmos.
Q ... whose idea was it to incorporate the Gayatri Mantra into the Main Title?
A: That was Edward James Olmos' idea. We do as the Admiral commands. :)
Reddit AMA: Bear McReary
En intervju med Perry Krootjes visar att det bara var en sång som han personligen gillade snarare än att ha någon djup betydelse. Enligt All Access DVD-extrafunktioner för säsong 2 , "Eddie" gav ut kopior av Deva Premals album för att kasta medlemmar och citerade hennes låtar (inklusive Gayatri Mantra) som hjälpte honom att förbereda sig mentalt för sin roll som kaptenen.
Olmos finds inspiration for his roles in an unlikely place: music. “Music is the key for me, to develop characters,” he said. “I have to find my music before I can actually even start to work.”
Battlestar Galactica presented an unusual problem for Olmos, he said,
because he was unable to get a grip on the story’s timeframe. He
eventually found his music for Adama in a small record shop in
Vancouver.
“I walked in and I saw, right as I walked in, the picture of Deva
[Premal] on a blue cover,” he recalled. “I had no idea who she was. I
had never heard her music, and I picked it up. I didn’t know why I
picked it up, but I picked it up, and I walked it around, and then I
went over and I said, ‘Can I hear this?’ They put it on and all of a
sudden, I said, ‘Holy mackerel!’
“I played it from the very first day I got it, to the very last day
that I worked on Battlestar Galactica. I played it every single day,
seven days a week, to stay inside my character and to keep Adama alive
and well.”
Edward James Olmos Inspires With Humility
Tydligen reflekteras de djupare teman (av cylonen som leds av deras tro på en godmodig gud) i föreställningen vilket säkert gör det till ett lämpligt val för öppningen. Med det sagt är det inte helt klart om Olmos ens visste vad orden av sången egentligen menade.