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[addlepated]

Hmm, I got a different interpretation. Spiders, monkeys, and birds are all drawings in the Nazca plains of Peru. They are huge in scale and can only been seen properly from far above, like in an airplane. I saw the entire entry relating to that. There is speculation that the eye of the god could be a solar eclipse - the eclipse itself being a pupil, and the corona as the iris.

So does this discovery of the pony page mean that the login is "nebra" and we need the password only?

The disck has elements of Hebrew, Maya, and ancient European cultures. All three placed high importance on equinoxes, eclipses, and the Pleiades. The Nebra disk has the Pleiades on it (Plejaden in German, where the disk was found); the Maya built their cities to align with the constellation they called Tzab; there is a word in Hebrew meaning Pleiades (kimah). Equinoxes signaled time for various rites. Astronomical calculations were probably developed in order to predict eclipses and equinoxes.

So there are several combinations and possibilities out there! Start punching keys, monkeys - eventually we will re-write Shakespeare.

[talax]

what does the "winged snake coming out of a mounting and swallowing everything" mean then???

[addlepated]

The feathered serpent is Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) or Kukulcan (Mayan). He was kinda the head honcho god, like Zeus or Odin. El jefe.

[MageSteff]

[addlepated]

I wonder if there's something in the background of the skull - mrhappy.jpg. I've twiddled the contrast, see what you think.

[talax]

probably nothing, but this page:
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/inquiring/
has the same title (Inquiring Minds) as the pony.php... interesting stuff about physics anyway.

[rose]

Didn't we have a pale horse earlier in the game? with the shadow files it was jbaxter/blekhest that grumpy solved instantaneously.

Also, the pale horse is the third horseman of the Apocalypse and represents death.

The only link I can think of with the Maya/ Aztecs is that the conquistadors brought horses with them to the "New World" and horses were unknown to either of these native cultures. And Cortes was considered at first by Montezuma to be Quetzcoatl, who was supposed to return from the East.

I don't understand about the greek phrase-is it from the bible or not? Or maybe both? Like Steph I can't read it properly (not that I read greek anyway)

[grumpyboy]

[Flynn]

Stegdetect shows jphide stegging in mrnotsohappy.jpg, scanning with a sensitivity of 1. Tried the obvious (nebra) passphrase with no luck, going to try a few more...

<edit>Magesteff - I have a copy of jphswin if you still need it. Not sure of the etiquette here, am I OK to post the zip file here? If not I can mail it.

<edit 2>Should be with you now.

[MageSteff]

[Guest]

Is "this ain't your father's automaton" important?

[Guest]

could mr not so happy be becker - the grumpy boss?

possible passwords: becker, boyscout

[rose]

Guest wrote

[talax]

ran stegbreak on the file using all.lst as the wordfile and got no results:

mrnotsohappy.jpg : negative
Processed 1 files, found 0 embeddings.
Time: 14069 seconds: Cracks: 158836962, 11289.9 c/s


So either the stegging is a false positive, or it is using something not found in the all.lst file or it's combinations that it tries.

[addlepated]

stuff which probably isn't in a dictionary:

blekhest
rodsild
nebra
plejaden
pleiades
kukulcan

think along those lines, try destegging with jphide/seek. The PMs probably made it a word that is highly unlikely to be in any dictionary after the Tunguska picture was bruted rather than puzzled through.

I would but I have no access to a PC right now =)