For the light to hit the Staff of Ra in just the right way, it would be necessary to hit it at the perfect angle, meaning that there is only one very specific time of day that it will reveal the location of the Well of Souls. The more pressing plot hole revolves around how the light would react with the headpiece. In spite of the facts (as presented by Raiders of the Lost Ark itself), the Staff is clearly taller than Indy - something which presents a minor but nagging inconsistency. However, Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones is around six feet tall, meaning that the Staff should be considerably smaller than he is. This means that one kadam is approximately one foot, and when one kadam is then subtracted ' to honor the Hebrew god', the Staff should stand at roughly five feet high. Indy and Sallah read the inscription on the headpiece and learn that the Staff should be ' six kadams high', which is identified as roughly 72 inches. The biggest of the two plot holes is the length of the Staff itself. Not only is the Staff of Ra far too tall, but it also relies on light refracting through the headpiece to show the location of the Ark - something which simply wouldn't work in real life due to the basic nature of the sun.

One of these is as simple as a visual oversight, but the other stems from a gap in logic that's not easy to reconcile. The Staff of Ra and its appearance actually present multiple issues, which leads to a subtle Raiders of the Lost Ark plot hole. Related: Is Indiana Jones Actually Immortal? This allows Jones to discover the true location of the Ark while the Nazi team digs in the wrong location. Though the Nazis possess an imprint of one side of the Staff's headpiece, Jones has the real thing, which offers initial insight into the intended length of the Staff - five kadams, or roughly five feet - information which the Nazis were not privy to. Along the way, Jones also makes use of the Staff of Ra, the key to discovering the Well of Souls, the supposed resting place of the Ark. However, the Ark isn't the only important artifact that Indiana Jones encounters during Raiders of the Lost Ark.

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