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[dashcat]

[mortality]

Ah. Fair enough.

If you're trying to crack those, why not ask Ethan to get the information Frank logged for those trackbacks and comments? It may at least provide another way to get whatever solution we're supposed to find.

We do kind of have to assume those posts were significant. So it's worth trying.

[Sylvia]

[mortality]

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Since the time of Solomon, anyone who wrote anything about wisdom or secret knowledge usually found a way to add/corrupt some Solomonic reference and continue to do so to this day.

So, we just need to wade through all of the ones who had a circle fetish.

How hard could it be

[Sylvia]

[mortality]

That's a fair point, rogi.

I think Ethan has narrowed down our time period tho, so that should help a bit. John Dee is Renaissance-era. And the Scarpelli Library is also from the Renaissance. (At the earliest, we're probably looking at the Medieval period. And we're probably looking no later than the 1800s, if the secret societies stuff is important.)

Sylvia, I did look at The Triangle of Art when dash brought it up. That's what inspired the combined image of all the puzzles, right? I had not seen Solomon's Seal when I did that research, nor had anyone brought it up in connection with the One Ring. There are also multiple Solomon's Seals/Rings... The Ring is not a Ring would seem to indicate that we're looking at the diagram. Solomon's Seal itself refers to the Star of David, sometimes placed inside a circle or concentric circles. There are multiple versions...

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Sorry for going all, Patrick Gates.
Did Ethan have any input on the triangle of art?

[mortality]

He hasn't replied to the latest email about Solomon's Seal. He probably won't until tomorrow.

I'll have to comb through my emails from him, but I don't recall him talking about the Triangle of Art, either.

ETA: I did mention it to him. No he did not reply to Solomon's Triangle other than to say "There's Solomon again." It's a few posts back.

[Sylvia]

I should clarify my previous post. It's the triangle at the top that is the Triangle of Art.

Here is another good link for info: http://www.meta-religion.com/Esoterism/Magick/Ceremonial_magick/goetia.htm

I also gave some good links in my previous post here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=451837#451837

[mortality]

Sylvia, both images look relevant and I think your analysis for the one a few posts up is spot on because, at least in 0702, we seem to be dealing with a summoning. It would be a good idea to make the summoning/containment link between the Triangle of Art and Solomon's Seal explicit to Ethan.

[Rogi Ocnorb]

Re-reading Ethan's reply to Sylvia about the combined images, I can see retrospectively, how it was actually an encouragement.

But, at the time, I must've homed in on the "I'd have never thought to do that" and "I'll ask around" parts as I took his reply as a discounting of the theory.

[mortality]

OK, so it looks like we've found the underpinning logic for this stuff. What can we conclude?

I did some more reading on the Triangle of Art. Just so that we have it condensed in the forums and not all over the web: The names on the outside of the second figure Sylvia provided relate to the Hebrew names for God. Tetragrammaton refers to the four consonants used for God's sacred, unspeakable name in the Torah. Anaphaxeton is supposed to mean God of all the heavenly hosts, or a high angel. Primeumaton means the one who is first and last. The figure also contains Archangel Michael's name.

I thought how Michael is divided might give us a clue as to how we should split up "the wise king commanded three." I'm thinking it doesn't. There are too many variations with different versions of the Triangle.

However, I do think we now know what that phrase means: the wise king is Solomon. And he commanded the three names of God when performing summons rituals.

[Sylvia]

[mortality]

OK. So where's this leading for the larger story arc? Ethan keeps on saying he thinks that someone has their own copy of the 0702 ritual, unaffiliated with the cipher left in the Library. Unless I just like conspiracy theories, I think we can take this one step further and assume that there are two sides involved.

0702 is a ritual to free something. 0701 refers to a ritual to summon and contain or banish something. Whoever left 0701 is trying to prevent whatever's happening with 0702. Hell, maybe they provided us with 0702 just to let us know it was happening.

Now we just have to figure out their identities and what they're trying to summon. And no, Sylvia, no clues as to what they're summoning other than it's something dark. Maybe it's Morpheus...maybe it is Cryto.

You seem to have sparked this discussion, you want the task of explaining it to Ethan? (Cough. He already has two emails from me to answer. Cough.)

ETA: I think this, at long last, also provides the connection to Autumn Country where there seem to be two opposing factions.