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[TRAILHEAD] The Ennead
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Daeld
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Astrology

OK, so the L'ESTASI symbol has three components:
1. Human (male) torso
2. Circle
3. Symbol

No doubt by 9/9/09 we will know all to well what this means. However, for those like me who like to look at puzzles that are not necessarily overt, here are a few thoughts:

1. Male torso - appears normal with no distinctive features, however my resolution is not good enough to comment on the surface anatomy

2. The circle - nothing remarkable. May relate to the torso (as in a "Chakra" marker as used in some Eastern philosophies. May also relate to the Symbol. May be independent (ie a representation of the Sun, an eclipse, etc)

3. The Symbol - May be an Astrology Chart diagram, but we don't know which restrictions to use (not to mention that I have no clue how to work an astrology chart) - I donwloaded a program which helped a very little bit - on the date (9/9/09, there is a planetary alignment that could correspond to the Symbol, but this in and of itself is not significant. There is no correlation with the zodiac symbols at the splash scene from Ennead series.

Alternatively, it may be a stylized "A", representing "Anios" Corporation (Corpos = Body as in the torso). (Although this is the most far-fetched and uninformative suggestion yet.)

Perhaps there is someone with astrology interest who can assist in ruling in or out the above?

I have also reviewed astronomical (ie scientific rather than astrological) charts of the area above Vancouver at 0900 on 9/9/09 with nothing but wasted time to show for it.

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Episode 07 "I'VE SEEN THIS GUY BEFORE." is up

Weird stuff going on heheheh gonna check now, looks like the "target" may be identified in this one.

ETA: The spoiler is just notes from the episode with 2 screenshot ref links
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Cats extracts Mitochondrial DNA from one of the teeth to get a sequence from a database page titled "DECKARD LABS" with the astrological sign "Leo". Flick then uses the DNA to retrieve a profile match from a database page with the footer "ANIOS ANIOS ACTUAL", identifying the guy that got his teeth pulled out as "Robert Xavier Ray".

(The following number sequence appears at the bottom of both screens -looks like the DNA/KNA sequence used to get the profile?)

12 34 52 74 39 81 04 00 12 39 79 35 75 12 83 45 56 72 01 29

[SPEC]Makes me kinda think maybe that dude wanted his teeth pulled out because they have RFID chips or something in them Dunno - but now that I think he called Teeth a bitch after yanking a tooth, maybe not...[/SPEC]
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Daeld
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So, Nova's up to something. Those two dudes (4:10) where the same ones in the forest (from whom they hid). It sounds like they were involved in Michael's disappearance and have noticed Lisa is trying to find him. On Michael's third video, there are clearly two people abducting him. One at least is male of the same build as the man in 4:10, but not wearing a jacket. The other one, I can only see a had. It looks female, but maybe I just want it to look female (ie these guys took Michael).

As for the stills, KNA is not a type of nucleic acid. It is more likely from KNA technologies (www.knatechnologies.com) who make proteomics solutions. The whois states it was registered in 2001, so it is probably OOG (lol). The website has no reference to the Zodiac Leo sign. On the bottom of the still, it has the generic amino acid sequence (N2CHRCOOH) - that is the sequence that is common to all amino acids. For example glycine substitutes hydrongen (H) for the R group. Now, this would suggest protein analysis rather than mitochondrial DNA/RNA analysis. Either way it does not help elucidate the significance of the numbers at the bottom of the second still: DNA or RNA analysis only deals with 4 base pairs at the same time, whereas Protein analysis only deals with 20 at the same time. THis means that the sequence (which goes up to 83) does not represent individual base pairs or individual amino acid sequences. If you think it relates to the biosequencing of Xavier, it would have to mean specific gene/mutation types that are scanned for by the machine (which is way too fast LOL). IF this is the case (and I seriously doubt it) we would need the code to break it. I don't think looking at bioinformatics to solve the meaning of the numbers is the way to go. As I probably have the most professional experience with this I will look into it. But I suggest those who have cryptography experience look for other answers. (perhaps a beagle code...)

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A collection of wild geese...

So, to limit the collection of wild geese I am collecting, I went back through the ennead videos. In one of them it is mentioned that the world's religions believed in evolution (back in the day). If you believe in evolution, then mitochondrial DNA is useful for looking back at family maternal ancestry (within huge limits and assumptions). Anyway, to cut a long story short I thought that perhaps the sequence could be used by looking at genetic family trees using mitochondrial DNA - relevance is an issue, perhaps it would have been that the ennead (ie the nine) had a common maternal ancestor...
Anyway, you can use the sequences to denote specific genes (ie in what kindom, family, genus, species, etc down to the chromosome and where in the chromosome a specific gene is). Let me just say that it turned up nothing (as expected).

the sequence does not seem to relate in any way to any bioinformatics database system that I am aware of. I still think that its use is in more traditional cryptography (or just a wild goose chase to keep us fit!)

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Lisa Uploaded Disc contents to her blog "The Stuff"

Just dl'ed the stuff & checking it out. So far got this from File: "This is Real"

culehuet.pdf wrote:
cc9896546 (I don't know what this is yet but I suspect its a sub of "tt#######" -see spoilers below)

01110100 01110100 00110000 00110001 00110100 00110100 00110000
00111000 00110100
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Binary: tt0144084 -Movie titled "American Psycho" -imdb.com/title/tt0144084
(Picture Attachment #1 ref)

dHQwMDc1Njg2 (I don't know what this is yet)

- - ----- ----- ---.. -.... ----- ..--- ..---
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Morse: TT0086022 -Movie titled "Nostalghia" -imdb.com/title/TT0086022

QJWWJQ JWM QNA BRBCNAB
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Vigenere, Key is "J" : HANNAH AND HER SISTERS

Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house.

U+0074 U+0074 U+0030 U+0037 U+0038 U+0030 U+0036 U+0032 U+0032
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Unicode Characters: tt0780622 -Movie titled "Teeth" -imdb.com/title/tt0780622

116 116 48 49 52 52 48 56 52
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Dec/Ascii: tt0144084 -Movie titled "American Psycho" -imdb.com/title/tt0144084

During the end credits, the titles of the crew members are in the language
of the place/unit they worked in

(Picture Attachment #2 ref)

OOoo this is starting to get creepy... Twisted Evil

ETA Note:
I havent checked the pic for stegg or for hidden text on the pdf's. But I suspect the new pic "pw_1" is stegged because its 63.8 KB compared to the other "pw"s 31.4 KB (same pixels,Dpi etc on both though). OK I gotta hit the sheets now Crying or Very sad
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I cant't open culeheut.pdf. So how did you get all those things you are writing about?

I had a download problem. File was not complete.

dHQwMDc1Njg2
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Base64
tt0075686 - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/ Annie Hall


not sure if the tt***** really relates to the movies.
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Not really useful, but

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
in the culehuet.pdf file properties it gives me the doc's original title as "Microsoft Word - alsoscrambled.doc".

Author (not surprisingly) is Terry Miles. Same goes for the Desert Diaries file.


ETA: Googling the two plain-text quotes in the culehuet.pdf gives you

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two more movies:
"Something beyond comprehension is happening to a little girl on this street, in this house."
-- Publicity slogan for The Exorcist (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/)
"During the end credits, the titles of the crew members are in the language of the place/unit they worked in"
-- Only google hit comes up with Night on Earth. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/)


plus,
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The picture with the Nixon mask is from "The Ice Storm".


ETA even more:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Spelling out the first letters of those movies gives us:
(cc9896546 - unsolved)
American Psycho
The Ice Storm
Annie Hall
Nostalghia
Hannah and her Sisters
The Exorcist
Teeth
American Psycho (again?)
Night on Earth
(picture 2 - Man in front of modern building -- unsolved)

Might be MANHATTAN with the M missing, and scrambled?


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@Psysop, AUZ505, marthajones your're AWESOME! Laughing

I found the second pic:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
It's from a movie called Code 46 (IMDB# tt034506)


PURE SPECULATION on #1:
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transfering "cc9896546" like this c => -9 => t; 9 => -9 => 0; 8 => -9 => 1; etc., results in "tt0107657", on IMDB that's a movie called Naomi


I need some help with the PW_1 pic, the download doesn't work for me. Cursing Can someone post it here, please?

@Daeld I read your last two posts three times and still don't understand half of it. Embarassed I really hope we don't need such highly scientific stuff to solve the puzzles. As far as I remember we haven't found any hints hidden in the episodes, yet. My guess right now is, that, while the episodes provide the background and frame for Lisa's story, they won't help us in finding Michael.

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Here's the file:


Trillian wrote:
I really hope we don't need such highly scientific stuff to solve the puzzles.

That's what I was trying to point out (albiet in a round-about way!). I looked at it in response to the earlier suggestion.
759cc207c0230e71078f17a191c346b2.jpg
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759cc207c0230e71078f17a191c346b2.jpg


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Hm. IF that first-letters concept on the culehuet hints is right, we'd get

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n?atanhttanc


For which Google comes up with nada, and the only anagrams I found for that are fairly ridiculous. Laughing

Anything else they might have in common? Confused

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@Daeld Thanks for the file! Smile

As Psysop already noticed, the second picture is larger than the first version, but stegdetect claims there's nothing hidden in it. Sad

I overlayed the first and second picture to get a third layer with the "differences", played with the color-levels (whatever that that exactly means Wink ) and found this:
difference.jpg

Which is what we are trying anyway! Sad

Note: I can't see the message by simply adjusting the color-levels of the original pictures, so I THINK that's the solution, but I'm not experienced with image-manipulations and there may be an easier way to get the same results.

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Trillian wrote:


PURE SPECULATION on #1:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
transfering "cc9896546" like this c => -9 => t; 9 => -9 => 0; 8 => -9 => 1; etc., results in "tt0107657", on IMDB that's a movie called Naomi



Don't understand how you are calculating. I got two alternatives using your idead which are different from your result:

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subtracting 9 and using the "positive" result
9-9=0, 8-9=(-)1 6-9=(-)3 --> tt0193453 --> "Red, White & Maple"

whereas I would go for rotating with -9 which is the same as +1:
9+1=0, 8+1=9, 6+1=7 --> tt0907656 (same as yours beside the 9 instead of 1!) --> "Oil & Water"


Guess you meant also the second approach.
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AUZ505 wrote:
Guess you meant also the second approach.


You're right, of course. It's the second approach and I got the "9" wrong. SORRY!
But what I'm getting now is
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tt0907657 => "Once"


As I said, it's only speculation anyway.

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So after I corrected your mistake and you corrected mine, the last posted seems correct (even though it is speculation).

Some more speculation:
We know that "the clue is scrampled". "Culehuet" could be an anagram for "The Clue" but with an extra "U".

Since the culehuet.pdf was a doc named "alsoscrampled" I would assume some anagram.
Taking the first letters of the movies seems somehow logical. But up to now I did not come up with something useful. There are too many possibilities.

Also I do not know how we should find "PW". We just have a photo and the initials.
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PW Pic2

Any suggestions as to the reason for the long file name?

759cc207c0230e71078f17a191c346b2.jpg

As I recall, the first one was simply entitled pw.jpg

I tried to run it in decoders of various types with no luck...

Any thoughts? Question

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