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youthpastor247 · Decorated Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 235

The pictures on the blogspot in order are:
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Machiavelli (I'm assuming this is a reference to The Prince)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
A sphinx

The German picture on Digg translates thusly
"Sketch 4: The Hell in the northern hemisphere of the earth"
"Sketch 5: The mountain on the southern hemisphere of the earth"
It's named dante1.jpg, so it may reference something in The Divine Comedy.

The numbers on the blogspot may reference a location within the story (which we may be able to find on Google Books). For example, 96, 1, 1, 1 may mean Page 96, Paragraph 1, Sentence 1, Word 1. Although, I doubt it with the amount of variations there can be.

EDIT: Just did a little research, and the German sketches refer to Dante's concepts of Hell and Purgatory. In the Divine Comedy, Hell is a funnel descending from the northern hemisphere to the center of the earth. Purgatory is a mountain in the southern hemisphere opposite Jerusalem.

Also, Dante's first circle of Hell is Limbo, where those who were just but never knew Christ, especially infants. Here, Dante met philosophers and poets.

The connection between the pictures and the idea of the First Circle may imply that we need to find the entrance points for each of the stories (ie, the rabbit hole in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland).

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:44 am

Das Llama · Unfettered Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 362

? page, line, word, letter ????

Das Llama

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:37 am

jabroni

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:39 am

CWallaby55 · Veteran Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 106 Location: Michigan

Just bouncing off some of youthpastor's thoughts--

The text on the Inferno picture are the opening lines, which as not as useful a clue as I thought it would be when I started playing with the picture Sad

Romeo and Juliet deals with suicide, Heart of Darkness is about a man's journey deeper into the depths of Africa, which is also a descent into madness. Machiavelli is, of course, all about how to keep power (it's better to be feared than loved, basically.)

I was thinking the numbers could refer to cantos of the Divine Comedy, but there are only 99 between all three books.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:37 am

Das Llama · Unfettered Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 362

jabroni

Yeah llama I'm pretty sure each pic represents a different type of sinners. And they go in order for the circles of Hell.

Using this link:
http://hhhknights.com/curr/human/2/hellinferno.html

I think they match up, like Romeo and Juilet are The Lustful, Machiavelli is greedy. I'm gonna check the numbers against The Divine Comedy again, just seems like there should be 3 numbers not 4. I think we may be getting one letter per string of numbers, and that will spell a word.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 1:44 pm

CWallaby55 · Veteran Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 106 Location: Michigan

I love the sins idea

I agree that R&J is Lust and Machiavelli is Greed. For the rest--

Tom Sawyer would be Sloth.
Alice might be Gluttony.
Wrath would most likely be Heart of Darkness
Envy...all that's left is Dante and I'm not sure that fits.
Pride would probably be the sphinx

**Posted:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:14 pm

jabroni

There is some overlap but I don't think it is the 7 deadly sins. Each pic represents a circle of Hell going from 1 to 7.

1st circle: Limbo. Reserved for the souls of the just people who never knew Christ, and those (especially infants) who died without baptism and never committed a sin.
2nd circle: The Lustful.
3rd circle: The Gluttonous.
4th circle: The Avaricious and Prodigals.
5th circle: The Wrathful and Sullen.
6th circle: The Heretics.
7th circle: The Violent

I'm still clueless about the numbers though. But the more I think about it, maybe the numbers are like from the last puzzle. 1,2,3,6 meant to use the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th words. I've been trying to use the words from the book to desteg each picture, but I haven't gotten anything to work yet.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:37 am

El Neil · Unfettered Joined: 27 Aug 2006 Posts: 348 Location: UK

holy moly guys. sorry i havent been around to help, i was on holiday. well done though!

it might be paragraph, line, word, letter?

and sniper, "if you want to complain, call my secretary. her name is EAT ME". you are teh funny.

just read all the posts but the details are still a bit vague. probably cos i read them too fast. got a shitload of catching up to do elsewhere and a real manic month ahead but i should be around to help out over the next few days.

neil

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:47 am

licoricesniper · Unfettered Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 560

Aww thank you Neily-Os. You are teh neato! Cool

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:03 pm

blessedmercy1018 · Veteran Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 146

me thinks we need a clue.. I definitely think that we are on the right track with the pics depicting the sins...

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:49 pm

Wabonan · Entrenched Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 1185

I thought Romeo and Juliet was a love story??... not lust... I read it years ago of course. I never thought Love was a sin. You guys have me totally confused...lol Maybe a beer or 3 will help....lol

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:26 pm

jabroni

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:31 pm

Wabonan · Entrenched Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 1185

The Sphinx...thats another thing that bothers me.... im not sure thats what that is..... The head is egyptian....Egyptian Sphinx had no wings ....Only greek ones have wings...thats not a greek style head. Egyptians liked putting weird heads on stuff...that could be a gods messenger or something ...I dont think its a Sphinx..... Also all ther other pics were named.... That one is labled tm...lol

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:02 pm

dakabt · Boot Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 41

I don't think the wings on sphinx are important. Although I do agree on sphinx being in the violent. I'm still trying to find out who is Limbo? Perharps Alice?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:08 pm