Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
My interpretation of the scene is that the monster wants him to become a new worshipper, like the others from the hidden village. He was marked earlier in the film as being "special" in some way.
Full answer by Parker MacInnis: https://movies.stackexchange.com/a/106108 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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