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[mr.judkins]

[Email] James Mutters - 26 June 2008

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The end bit is in English, thankfully for me . I think mythology could give us some clues.

[Soda]

I keep hear German, Russian?I think i play a few times, thats what stand out to me at less.

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English bit:

[ariock]

English Section

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Been chatting with James on Facebook. I mentioned to him that MauroKing heard "stadia" in there. Discussion from there:

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Ok, the "according to" bit is "according to Hesiod." Wikipedia article on Hesiod: click this text. So where various versions of the mythology exist, go with Hesiod's version. In particular, he put together the Theogony..."a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies of the gods of the ancient Greeks, composed circa 700 BC" (source: Wikipedia...click this text for link.)

[Soda]

Nice!


It would be scary but fun! That would be crazy i would so be there, it would be a rush, but we got to find out the rest of this clip..Dang all them people sleep over there!

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[mr.judkins]

FYI - here is my FB chat with James prior to him sending out the email, to add to the mix. It's rather long, so I've tried to condense it and format it in a readable manner...

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Yeah, shortly after I started chatting with James I noticed you were online as well...I wish there was a way for multiple FB users to be in 1 chat. Oh well.

I think all we need to know now to figure out the English bit (which I think will be the codeword our agent doing the 6th ring pickup will give, but I guess that's still spec) is whether the Sphinx was born before the Nemean Lion or after. That will be "the first monster born from the two-headed dog [Orthos] and his sister [Chimera], who were both born to the mate [Echidna] of the last-born son [Typhoeus] of our present and cosmological state [Gaia]." (Ariock figured out most of this above, not me ...I'm just summarizing for myself.)

[hmrpita]

HEROIC BATTLES OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY - CHIMAERA THE DRAKON

(from the ABC set THE ANCIENT WORLD AND BEYOND)

There was a dreadful union
Between the giant immortal Typhon
And the black fearful eyed Echidne,
Half serpent, half woman
The terrifying result of this
Unnatural union was the Chimaera
A great beast strong and swift footed
Who snorted raging fire
The creature's front
Was that of a lion with tooth claw and nail
The hindquarters and middle
Of a goat and a serpent for a tail
Her heads numbered three,
One of a lion, a goat and a snake
A fire breathing powerful drakon
She left death in her wake
The Drakon Chimaera was in love
With Orthrus her own brother
And spawned the deadly Sphinx
And the Nemean Lion together
She ravaged the herds
And despoiled the Lycian countryside
The bones of her victims
Lay strewn across the mountainside
The creature allegedly reared
By Ambassados plagued Lycia
And many an heroic figure
Tried to rid that land of Chimaera
Then King Iobates sent
The gallant Corinthian hero Bellerophon
Mounted upon winged Pegasus
To do battle with the Drakon
He rained arrows down
With the help of the goddess Athena
And with his lead tipped lance
Bellerophon killed Chimera

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Well, my vote is for the Sphinx, then, based on Ariock's quote above and what Pita just posted.

If we do decide to send one of our own agents to do a deaddrop related to this, perhaps they should also be familiar with the Riddle of the Sphinx, heh .

I listened to the message again and MauroKing is definitely right about the stadia bit. I think I hear 333 stadia from omphalos acht (German for eight). I don't know what the direction is, though. Omphalos 8 is the one in Vietnam according to the wiki (click this text for link).

[hmrpita]

It's looking more and more like the Sphinx to me too

[Canzonett]

OH, why do the great news on this always appear when it's late at night and I'm sleeping??? The beginning sounds definitely Dutch - I'll try and transcribe it.

(WHY does it have to be Dutch? Why not German or Swedish? Amsterdam, Amsterdam, I know - but my oral comprehension skills in Dutch are rotten ...)