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[RING][Podcast] #secret - The Secret Artifact
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thebruce
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 		[RING][Podcast] #secret - The Secret Artifact
Not linked on his site, but rather in his collection on DotSub
http://dotsub.com/home/collections/index.php?collection=88

The secret Podcast:
http://dotsub.com/films/thesecret_2/index.php
"This is the most difficult story I've ever had to tell. I've waited 30 years to tell it. "

Also: http://www.thelostgames.com/confession
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kosmopol
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 		Hmm... Looking at this statuette

UPDATE!

OUCH!
It cannot be viewed.
It's deleted.

P.S. Anyway, I've seen this statuette for times. Dejavu?

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 		hmm.... well I've already got it downloaded Razz

I'm sure it'll be back up in a few.

eta: it's back
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kosmopol
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 		I've found the statuette he's found:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-30330/Western-sculpture


Quote:
The Middle Minoan period differs principally from the Early Minoan in the creation of palaces and a palatial life and art. Large-scale sculpture seems not to have found much favour in Crete, although fragments of life-size figures from this period were discovered in the Cyclades in the late 20th century. Miniature sculpture of the highest quality, some of it of fired sand and clay, was produced from at least as early as 1600 BC. Good examples are two female figures (called "Snake Goddesses") from Knossos, dated about 1700 BC (Archaeological Museum, Iráklion, Crete). These women stand with their arms in front of them, holding sacred snakes; they wear a flounced skirt and tight belt, and their breasts are bare.


Btw, wow, 1700 BC Wink

If somebody has translation of that paper hidden in it, I'd be glad to read it one mor time Smile

Update: You're right it's back.
(One language was updated, don't know, which, perhaps that's why the video wasn't accessible)

Update 2: well, this is not the same statuette, but one from that series.

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 		Transcript of the paper:
Quote:
1. When the time comes there will be no more time
If traditions have failed
If you can no longer see the horizon of reality
The committee will send six to teach you the limits of your world

2. The athletes will show you the way. Your games will save you.

3. When travelers appear they will be washed clean by Lethe, just as we six were in the third year of the 666th Olympiad

4. When you are ready to receive data, look to Delphi

5. As you wait for the six, you can build a house of Salomon

6. You will want to tell others
But you must not
Guard with your life the scientific discoveries of the Ancient Olympiad. Remember always that your agenothetia are the secret ones.

Instructions for finding the lost ring

There were some words I couldn't make out, or surely made out wrong. I'm not good at cursive Smile

Edit: Updated to refect other people's readings

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kosmopol
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jjason wrote:
Transcript of the paper:
Quote:
When the time comes there will be no more time
If traditions have failed
If you can no longer see the hayor? of reality
The committee will send six to teach you the limits of your world

2. The athletes will show you the way. Your games will save you

3. When travelers appear they will be washed clean by LIthe, just as we six were in the 666th Olympiad

4. When you are ready to recieve data, look to Delphi

5. As you work for the six, you can build a house of Salomon

6. You will want to tell others
But you must not
Guard with your life the scientific discoveries of the Ancient Olympiad. Remember always dort? your agenothetia are the seeritones?

There were some words I couldn't make out, or surely made out wrong. I'm not good at cursive Smile


Cool, thanx

Btw, it's Lethe, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethe
A river between the worlds.

Ehm, 666th Olympiad - was it 1920?

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 		Transcript (of the podcast):
Code:
This is the most difficult story I've ever had to tell. I've waited 30 years to tell it. And I hope, when it's over, you'll understand why I've kept it secret until now. [onscreen] The Story of The Secret Artifact With Historian Eli Hunt

I'm Eli Hunt and this is my own story. The story of the secret artifact.

You already know how this story starts. When I was 10 years old, my parents took me to the ruins at ancient Olympia. Most of the tourists were paying attention to the best preserved parts - the Temple of Zeus, the palaestra colonnade, the entrance to the stadium. I was more interested in the piles of rubble, the places no one was looking. My parents didn't even notice I had left their side. It was 2 hours before they found me digging through the dirt a few meters behind

Pheidias' Workshop, the site where supposedly one of the seven great wonders of the ancient world had been made - the great gold and ivory statue of Zeus.

They were quite mad at me for running off, until I showed them what I'd found - mall bronze statue of a snake goddess.

And as you know from my biography, I turned that statue in to the museum, although of course I really wanted to take it home with me.

Later, their researchers authenticated it as a lost work of Pheidias. They were thrilled, my parents were as proud as could be, and the media dubbed me a young hero of history. I've been an avid fan and researcher of the ancient Olympic games ever since.

As fantastic as it sounds, all of that really is true.

But it's not the whole truth.

Yes, I discovered an ancient bronze artifact, and yes I gave it to the museum.

But I found something else that day.

And I didn't tell a soul.

I kept it, and I've studied it, for decades. I still don't know if I completely understand it. That's why I'm sharing it with you now. Time is running out. You may understand what I have failed to.

Here is the truth.

The sculpture was hollow, and when I ran my finger along the inside, I felt something rough - a piece of old, weathered paper. A tiny scroll, written on both sides, in English - not ancient Greek.

I had no idea what it was. Was it some kind of riddle or poem or prayer? I couldn't tell. But somehow, the fact that it was written in English - that made it okay to keep the scroll. It wasn't ancient. It didn't belong to the museum. It belonged to me.

I've long since memorized the words I first puzzled over that day in ancient Olympia. The cryptic directions begin with

"When the time comes, there will be no more time… When travelers appear, they will be washed clean by Lethe… As you wait for the six, you can build a House of Salomon..."

And so on.

At the end, a simple line, "Instructions for preparing the Lost Ring."

You can read all of it for yourself. But what I want you to know is this: I have been building that house for decades.

Now, it's time to share what I have built with you.

I realize at this point, you may not trust me completely. Surely, some of you will feel as though I have been cheating you by withholding what little I do know about the lost ring. So let me share one more story with you.

Do you know how the agonothetai and the hellanodikai punished athletes who were caught cheating at the ancient Olympics?

They created a giant statue of the cheater and put it on a pedestal right in the center of Olympia. It was the ultimate public shaming.

Now if this were 160 BC, maybe you would want to make a statue of me, for cheating you of the knowledge I've had. I wouldn't blame you.

But the Greeks had another tradition – extending the olive branch when it was time to make peace. That time is now. I know that I can trust Ariadne, and that I can trust you. No more secrets. I've opened the portal to you. From now on, what I see, you see. We are in this together.

[onscreen] www.TheLostGames.com



.W.

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 		666th Olympiad
The 666th Olympiad occured in 1888, not 1920. Apparently the first year that Olympics were announced to occur every 4 years.

Source: http://tinyurl.com/2h555l

Also...mark of the beast reference?

Edit -shrunk loooooong url ~ myf

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 		1888.

Check the Diego/Monica thread. The grandfather uncle of this girl Monica claimed to know one of the six from 1888 named Jorge. He woke up blindfolded in the labyrinth at Stuartfield, Scotland. You can check the rest of the info in that thread.

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 		I think that it should be:
Quote:
If you can no longer see the horizon of reality

and
Quote:
Guard with your life the scientific discoveries of the Ancient Olympiad. Remember always that your agonothetai are the secret ones.


So it sounds like the 6 were washed free of their memories and sent by 'the committee' to save the world (again) or something...because the traditions have failed. Hrm.

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 		666th Olympiad
The third year of the 666th Olympiad Begins June 22/23, 1887 and it ends July 09/10 1888.

Sourcehttp://www.numachi.com/~ccount/hmepa/calendars/666.3.Poseideon.html

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Quote:
If you can no longer see the hayor? of reality

I think the word is horizon
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 		Transcription of the paper/Solomon
Truly minor corrections/different interpretations
Quote:
5. As you work for the six, you can build a house of Salomon
As you wait for the six, you can build a house of Salomon.
Oh, and on this note, check out how Salomon built his house in Kings, Chapter 7
Quote:
6. You will want to tell others
But you must not
Guard with your life the scientific discoveries of the Ancient Olympiad. Remember always dort? your agenothetia are the secret ones.

... Remember always that your agenothetai are the secret ones

Quote:
I'm not good at cursive Smile

You did great. I still can't figure out that "hayor" one in the beginning is and it's driving me kookoo Dunno

EDIT to avoid doubleposting: I think Red is right: horizon makes sense... (in the way that vague, new-agey metaphors make sense. Smile)

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danteIL wrote:
I think that it should be:
and
So it sounds like the 6 were washed free of their memories and sent by 'the committee' to save the world (again) or something...because the traditions have failed. Hrm.


RedHatty wrote:
I think the word is horizon


Sweet. I updated the transcript.

If the six were sent by committee, what does that mean about the previous six? If I recall correctly, they also had amnesia and were found in a labyrinth. It'd make sense that they'd keep being sent, as long as the tradition keeps being failed but why are there memories being erased over and over. Maybe it's some sort of automatic process, that draws them to the labrynith and erases their memories every four years.

Edit: And updated it with Mogee's correction

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