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 		Learning Knowledge
Emails from Lucy
Lucy has finally emailed the knowledge we voted for. The meaning of said knowledge? Well, that's another story...

Lucy's Email wrote:
Enjoy. Hopefully this music will put you in mind of other things I have used - really like the lyrics on these songs, don't you... Wink


She also provided a linked version found here.

Some notes:
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The scrolling cipher:
VNKLX MAX VTNLX B VTGGHM TBW MAX FTG - LUNXTFBLA HLLBYKTZX VTG A. Caesar decode: CURSE THE CAUSE I CANNOT AID THE MAN - SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE CAN H (Someone check my work)

The music:
Enigma - The Gate. The music from her previous Truth mp3 was Enigma - The Eyes of Truth

At 01:30, it's Canis Major, Lepus, Columba Noachi & Cela Sculptoris from Sidney's Halls Urania's Mirror, a deck of astronomical star chart cards. It depicts Canis Major (the dog), Lepus (the rabbit), and Columba Noachi (Noah's dove).

The last image is a celestial globe. But there's ton of imagery in this video to pick apart...


She also replied to my email asking about sun goddesses:
Quote:
Dear Sic
Sun goddess? No, couldn't be further from the truth - though I can see ho you would think that - and it is good that you are thinking more outside of the box than your counterparts.
How are you liking the puzzles 'set' to you - 'rising' to the challenge yet?
Apologies for the delay though - you were right with your warning so thank you. I have indeed been under surveillance and your warning allowed me to draw on extra power that, if I hadn't been warned, may have let me be discovered.
Your influence is helpful - thank you.
Onto more important things than the little dove and his team now though...

Happy Beltaine


Beltaine is a Celtic pagan festival for the summer solstice, celebrated on May 1st. The words 'set' and 'rise' seem to be becoming a recurrent theme with Lucy. Also, she refers to Callum as "the little dove." See above for possible connection.
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 		Re: Learning Knowledge
Emails from Lucy
[sic] wrote:
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The scrolling cipher:
VNKLX MAX VTNLX B VTGGHM TBW MAX FTG - LUNXTFBLA HLLBYKTZX VTG A. Caesar decode: CURSE THE CAUSE I CANNOT AID THE MAN - SQUEAMISH OSSIFRAGE CAN H (Someone check my work)

"The Magic Words are Squeamish Ossifrage" was the solution to a challenge ciphertext posed by the inventors of the RSA cipher in 1977. The solution required factoring RSA-129, a 129-digit number that (like all RSA numbers) is the product of exactly two primes. It was finally cracked in the 1990s by a series of computers working for around six months.

[sic] wrote:
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The music:
Enigma - The Gate.

The lyrics describe the planet Mars.

[sic] wrote:
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But there's ton of imagery in this video to pick apart...

So much imagery! One interesting point: The image of St. Lucy -- which Lucy also uses as her picture on her Google+ page -- isn't actually an image of St. Lucy (although the Internet seems to think it is). In reality it is a combination of two of the works of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, both representations of the Virgin Mary. The body, hands, and clothing are from The Virgin with the Crown, while the face is taken from The Virgin with the Host. The eyes on her hands and the reflection in the water have been added via Photoshop or something like that. (Reference)

In other news: As you may have seen on Facebook, Callum's account posted some weirdness last Tuesday, which happened to correspond to the auto-response from Lucy's email. Had a brief chat with Callum in the comments, in which he mentioned having his team "run a magical diagnostic." This seemed like a good time to ask him about the Agency (seriously, what kind of agency requires oaths in blood?), and he responded:

Callum wrote:
An agency that, once you are cleared, you may be given admission to, as a junior research assistant.
Or not.
Due to its nature though, and my position, it will not just be put here for people to attempt to hack into.

He also send me a private message, though:

Callum wrote:
[not yet anyhow...]

Further indications that we'll be choosing between Callum and Lucy at some point, yes? Lucy seems to confirm on her page:

Lucy wrote:
CALLUM AND HIS 'AGENCY' ARE TRYING TO FIND ME, THEY [THROUGH CALLUM] WILL TRY AND RECRUIT SOME OF YOU TO GET TO MY WISDOM AND POWER. THINGS WILL HAPPEN SOON IT SEEMS... OR AT LEAST THE FIRST STEPS...

So... I've gone ahead and created the page LittleDoveFelderi over on Your World of Text. My hope is that we'll be able to clue Callum into its existence -- perhaps with puzzles or something? -- without actually writing the name anywhere, so that he'll feel he can speak more freely without this mysterious Agency reading everything he types. Worth a shot, I think: perhaps Callum will credit the fact that Lucy felt safe communicating there.
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 		Re: Learning Knowledge
Video images
I went through the video and made a list of the images.

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wobbly zodiac
St. Lucy
Wilson's Bird of Paradise
golden eagle
ram (aries?)
giraffe
crab (cancer?)
dog (duck in its mouth)
dog, rabbit, dove
scrabble letters
Cover from the 2007 album "Witchcult Today" by Electric Wizard, an English doom metal band, into quasi-Satanic, Lovecraftian stuff
"stereographic projection of the northern celestial hemisphere of the equinoctal", basically, an old star chart


I'm guessing we're supposed to be thinking along both Western and Eastern zodiac lines, but I have not had enough caffeine today, so the synapses are not all firing at the moment. Wink

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 		Re: Learning Knowledge
Zodiac/Constellation thoughts
I did some more zodiac poking, and came up with the following:
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St. Lucy Constellation - Orion
Bird of Paradise Constellation - Apus
Eagle Constellation - Aquila
Ram Constellation - Aries
Giraffe Constellation - Camelopardalis
Crab Constellation - Cancer
Dog Constellation - Canis Minor
Dog Constellation II - Canis Major
Dove Constellation - Columba
Rabbit Constellation - Lepus


I found a zoom-able of the map at the end here: http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~34105~1170839:N--Celestial-Hemisphere-

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 		Welcome Pictishwitch Smile

Great job everyone else Smile

Finals week, Thursday afternoon I am free to dive back in.

Question: Did anyone check to see if the scrabble letters in the video were a code too?
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 		All the Scrabble letters have the correct numbers on them, but I haven't yet explored beyond that.

One thing I should add to the image list:
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The number behind the wobbly zodiac is pi.


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 		Possibly moving forward
Orion
So, on a whim I went to http://www.yourworldoftext.com/, and put each of the constellation names after the dash.

Here's what was there:
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Orion: Zeta Orionis is the coolest of all star names.
Apus: Sammich was here. Mr. Guy was here too.
Aquila: Blank page
Aries: http://www.mediafire.com/view/fxppgfg7t2efgpq/unit+2.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/view/74kqdb7tyifljre/unit+4.pdf
kanker
Camelopardalis: What is this? This
Cancer: Page full of vaguely obnoxious quasi-religious stuff that may or may not be connected to any of this
Canis Major: Blank page
Canis Minor: Blank page
Columba: Blank page
Lepus: Blank page


Googling the first netted:
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Alnitak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alnitak


The rest is likely all rubbish.

And now, I'm going to bed. Smile

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 		Re: Learning Knowledge
Shad0 wrote:
So... I've gone ahead and created the page LittleDoveFelderi over on Your World of Text. My hope is that we'll be able to clue Callum into its existence -- perhaps with puzzles or something? -- without actually writing the name anywhere, so that he'll feel he can speak more freely without this mysterious Agency reading everything he types.


Interesting idea (and nice name)! I'm curious to see where this could take things, if he bites.

I'm also in finals mode this week, so I can't offer much more help until the end of the week or so. I do wish I had a better idea of our current objective or what question we're aiming to answer at this point. I've noted Lucy's hinting about the sun, read through all the solar content at /yttik, and also noted the meaning of Sonnets 88, 33, and 55. There's something more there she wants, I just don't know what. I guessing it has to do with the missing parts of the astronomical signs, maybe? And I do believe Pictishwitch is right on the money with the constellations in the video. But the purpose of the cipher solve is lost on me... Confused

ETA:
Forgot to mention before, but the video description says:
Quote:
For the three who can travel through Wales in the past...

Likely another clue, but I just haven't had the time to look into it yet. Time travel?

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 		Re: Learning Knowledge
Re: Wales
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Forgot to mention before, but the video description says:
Quote:
For the three who can travel through Wales in the past...

Likely another clue, but I just haven't had the time to look into it yet. Time travel?

I think that's a just reference to the riddle we had to solve in order to earn the video: CDQ (Cardiff Queen Street railway station) is in Wales, and it was known as Crockherbtown from 1840-1887 or thereabouts.
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 		Re: Learning Knowledge
Little Dove
Thank goodness for Lucy's infinite patience with me lol She's updated /~lucylime with some advice as to where to go next. Looks like it's time to get Callum to open up more, and Shad0, I think your WoT is our best bet. (And also thanks for clearing up the Wales reference). I did want to ask him what exactly we needed to do to be cleared as junior research assistants....

And I actually did look into the lyrics of both Enigma songs she has used, but didn't get too far. The Gate is about Mars and I remembered that Lucy called herself a gatekeeper in her last mp3. The Eyes of Truth samples a Mongolian folk song, Alsyn Gazryn Zereglee. The lyrics "The Eyes of Truth are always watching you" I think is talking about some form of higher power. There's also French thrown in for good measure (about becoming a child/childlike).

Whelp, study break over. Back to hopelessly cramming genetics....

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 		Re: Learning Knowledge
Lucy's counterpart
This may mean nothing, but there is what astronomers are calling a sibling to our sun, called HD 16286, in the Hercules constellation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_162826

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 		FB Chat with Callum today - I let him know about Shad0's WoT page

Quote:
Today
Callum Felderi: Are you online? In my cups at moment. Miss lucy. Lots

Carol Red Hatty: I'm here. Drinking won't make you feel beeter

Callum Felderi: Yeah. But hell, I'm in a job that I can't leave, the woman I was to hunt down and entrap, I fell in love with and then betrayed in part, I'm. alone and no one is helping me find her anymore. I'm robbed sorry wined ruined!
Have I upset people? No one is talking anymore. I'm just wanting her back. The agency are always watching me so I can't even get you more info. If only there was a way to talk.

Carol Red Hatty: We are trying to help. Lucy doesn't easily trust. She is especially afraid that we will get recruited by your agency and make life even more dangerous for her.

Callum Felderi: None of you could solve a Woodwa Woodward word search so no Chacewater of being recruited! Not gloating just evolving expanding explaining

Carol Red Hatty: Well I don't know that we couldn't eventually. We may not be as fast as the professionals but we are smart

Callum Felderi: Sorry got distracted. Yeah typeyou're right. I'm going to bed now. Sorry. Ignore what I've said. Everyone else is

Carol Red Hatty: I do not ignore you!! I just don't know how to help you through your melancholy

Callum Felderi: Find me a way to talk without using Facebook. One that I'll get without anyone else...

Carol Red Hatty: Without anyone else? Not sure about that. Without your agency, that can be done.

Carol Red Hatty: try going here http://www.yourworldoftext.com/LittleDoveCallum

Carol Red Hatty: there's nothing there at all, yet. but only a very few of us know it exists

Then his FB was updated
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Callum Felderi
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Drunk. Not really carrying at the moment so might not notice rhea proxies text thing so much. Nu matter though as no one seems to be paying me m u ch attention anymore. Fine. All fine. I'm working hard like good old jack says no pay pay play.

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 		RedHatty, thanks for giving Callum the WoT. Smile

I find it odd that Callum is complaining about no contact, when I've been waiting 3 days for him to answer my question. Anyway, in answer to my query as to the reason why Lucy left the agency, he replied:

Quote:
Yes. Me. She did it to protect me.sorry, bit in my cups right now, don't really care who knows. Just. Well... She left so we could both survive. I realised they were exploring both of us. She'd not taken the oath but I had so I was bound to stay but she could run. She blamed me. All considered, can't be upset with that. I suppose I did start off trying to exploit her. Didn't know I would fall in love with her, despite my false at the time marriage...


I will continue the conversation, and see how it goes.

Edited to add: Callum's Facebook page update:
Quote:
No taxis at the moment. Radionuclide again. Hate getting wet. When will my taxi turn up? Hate the train when it's heavy. Windy to. — at Milton Keynes Central railway station


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 		Poor Callum. Suppose he's not happy that the group chat has gone quiet. I sent him a message to stay safe, but looks like he's done for the night.

Just to be clear, is the WoT page LittleDoveCallum or LittleDoveFelderi? Text was left at the latter. Also, aren't pages that we post to his fb supposedly "compromised" since the agency is monitoring him?

In other news, Lucy is has offered membership to her WoT page for six people who create for her something "unique and beautiful" that has to do with any planet besides Earth. We have until June to impress her.

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 		Two FB udates from Callum:
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Oh. My. Head. Never again. Just realised I was online last night. Apologies to anyone I spoke to. Already received a warning from work. Still, worth it to block out the memories. Apologies to anyone I've ignored as well. This week was not a good one. I'll reply and talk later.

and
Quote:
Just been warned by work - again. Twice in one day - not good for my record. Please watch what you say, even in my messages. Remember why I'm online. Thank you. Do a wordsearch or something if you're bored...

The word search is at http://www.yourworldoftext.com/LittleDoveCallum

For some reason, I can't select & copy from WoT, but I think the URL he has left there is wrong, because it directs to Lowes Home Improvement.

Edited to add:
Also, there are only 7 characters in the second block of word search letters, while there are 8 in all the others, which is either the point, or an error.

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