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SOLVED! (no, really) - Reggie's blog (Jan 19, 2004)
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 		FYI
one note about Chichen Itza which is near Cancun(which means "nest of snakes" in mayan according to one source I found)
from the online brittanica
Quote:

During the spring and autumnal equinoxes, shadows cast by the setting sun give the appearance of a snake undulating down the stairways. A carving of a plumed serpent at the top of the pyramid is symbolic of Quetzalcóatl (known to the Maya as Kukulcán), one of the major deities of the ancient Meso-American pantheon


I know this was mentioned, just wanted people to know the right spelling of the names in case it is any help.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 3:18 pm
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MageSteff
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 		spec: Eclipses
I think Doodles/i.jpg was removed because we were spending too much time on it. the important image must be the nebra disk.

One of the earlier entries in the blog for Reggie/John says:

Quote:
witness the eye of god staring down upon me. without warning, i rise up from the ground, levitated by powers i can't understand. ground rushes away body accelerating towards the eye. enormous orb. so large, it fills my field of vision completely. temperature shoots up until i am engulfed in a black heat.


I have found some references to Aztec winged sun images, which may relate to solar eclipes with added refernces to the Nazca lines.

http://eyeofgod.homestead.com/
http://totaleclipseanimations.homestead.com/AztecEclipseEye.html

And a NASA photo of the Helix Nebula which has been nicknamed "the Eye of God":
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_eye_of_god.htm

One last mention: in arts and crafts:
http://www.e-scoutcraft.com/string/eye_of_god.html
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:31 pm
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 		the name of the object is the Nebra disc not disk with a "k"

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 5:46 pm
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guest wrote:
the name of the object is the Nebra disc not disk with a "k"


Nebra disc: http://www.google.com/search?q=nebra+disc&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 returns 803 results.

Nebra disk: http://www.google.com/search?q=nebra+disk&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 returns 1210 results.

Although more people spell it "disk", it can go either way. Please don't trout anyone's spelling without making sure you're absolutely correct. It will always end up biting you in the rear! Wink

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guest wrote:
the name of the object is the Nebra disc not disk with a "k"


actually the official name for it is "early bronze age bronze disk with a representation of the sky from Nebra" but that didnt work as a password either hahahaha Very Happy

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 		hey all... with NOTHING in the password, and nebra as the login, I get redirected to this page:

http://nru.us/documents/pony.php

maybe more of a hint to the real password, or the answer????

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talax wrote:
hey all... with NOTHING in the password, and nebra as the login, I get redirected to this page:

http://nru.us/documents/pony.php

maybe more of a hint to the real password, or the answer????


when I say nothing... i mean a blank password... Wink

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:40 pm
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 		Interesting items:

The title of the page is: Inquiring Minds
The picture's file name is mrnotsohappy.jpg (heh)
the alternative description of the file (if you hold your mouse steady over the image) is: This ain't your father's automaton

and the greek like symbols are created by this line:

<span lang=EL style='mso-ansi-language:EL'>τὰ
ἔσχατα</span>

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:48 pm
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 		one last link...
http://nru.us/documents/mrhappy.jpg will let you see the background image without the one one top of it... an image of a skull.

PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 9:52 pm
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 		I found that snippet of greek text here:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/gnt/rev002.htm

It is from the book of JOhn 2:19... you can click on KJV (king james version) to get a english translation...

http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/rev002.htm


which is:

2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.

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Anonymous wrote:
Interesting items:

The title of the page is: Inquiring Minds
The picture's file name is mrnotsohappy.jpg (heh)
and the greek like symbols are created by this line:

<span lang=EL style='mso-ansi-language:EL'>τὰ
ἔσχατα</span>

Two of the symbols are not showing up for me, I guess I need to dl a different font.

NOTE: There is also a background jpg: mrhappy.jpg
In the process of checking with jphide/seek.
edit
the jpwin doesn't want to cooperate with me. AnthraX101, you said there was a place to dl a copy of stegdetect that didn't require compiling after dling?
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 		"ta eschata" = "the end times"

The guy on horseback looks like one of the four horsemen.
Death, maybe?

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 		as background reading see:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05528b.htm

it's the study of the last things or the end times depending on how you want to translate it... Wink

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 		Here's the horseback picture:
http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/gallery/horsemen/hayneshorse.html

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 		Okay feel free to trout me if it's been mentioned before... but Reggie's blog here:

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odd dreams. in a field surrounded by spiders, monkeys, birds. look up and witness the eye of god staring down upon me. without warning, i rise up from the ground, levitated by powers i can't understand. ground rushes away body accelerating towards the eye. enormous orb. so large, it fills my field of vision completely. temperature shoots up until i am engulfed in a black heat. then an odd calm-as if the heat is purifying my soul, burning away all feeling and leaving behind only the essence of my being.

i look down to see etched in the earth enormous pictographs. as if a giant child had carved the desert with a stick. simple drawings, yet they evoke memories from deep within my psyche. i seem to recall rituals. barbaric and foreign but performed with an ease that only comes from repetition and practice. and at the end, a giant winged snake comes out of a mountain and swallows everything.

three nights in a row.


The first part seems to represent nebra disk(the login), so it would be logical if the second paragraph represents the password.

Assuming that the pony.php page is supposed to be a hint for the password, we somehow have to connect Reggie's blog with it? been trying all sorts of passwords.

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