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MensVenatus
Decorated
Joined: 29 Apr 2010 Posts: 273 Location: Ottawa Ontario
[Trailhead] Lorelei Dreams Got an followed on Twitter today by someone called Lorelei Dreams, seems to be a trailhead.
Three of the tweets were decoded by Amandel as
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Railfence ciphers each with 4 rails: "where the dream begins, I can go no further, there are only pictures now"
Links to
http://loreleidreams.tumblr.com/
which has several entries, including a few pictures I haven't figured out, and some stuff that seems to have an Ancient Greek theme, including quotes from Homer, Sappho, and Frederick Langbridge(ok, he's neither ancient or Greek that I know), and a row of binary that doesn't decode into anything obvious.
Looks like it might be fun…
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Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:04 pm
bluesylvia
Unfettered
Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 369 Location: Chilly Colorado
Got followed by her too.
Apparently Lorelei is the name of a woman who originally was accused of being an enchantress of men, luring them in and later causing to be their ruin. In another story she jumps from a rock that now bears her name to her death over an unfaithful lover, transforming to a siren-like creature [this might be in connection to the ship images on her blog?]. The rock is in Rhine near St. Goarshausen, Germany.
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:17 pm
bluesylvia
Unfettered
Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 369 Location: Chilly Colorado
Been having an interesting Twitter convo with Lorelei:
Quote:
Lorelei: If only I had someone to talk to. The dreams make me lonely.
Me: I have been left as well. You can talk to me, I understand how you feel.
Lorelei: Do you have secrets too?
Me: Secrets are what make us human.
Lorelei: I never had secrets before. Life was very simple then. There was only the sea, and my mother and father.
Me: It always begins as such. There is no need for secrets until others enter and you must hide the truth...
Lorelei: Hidden... There were hidden rooms back then. Secret hidden rooms where they went and never came out.
She also posted a picture of two triangles pointing at one another, stating they were written at the bottom of the note left by "him". Can't think of what they might mean.
Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:23 pm
thebruce
Dances With Wikis
Joined: 16 Aug 2004 Posts: 6899 Location: Kitchener, Ontario
The binary on the 'note' posted to tumblr decodes to
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upltj
vrmez
pvh
And the symbol at the bottom of the note:
_________________
@4DFiction /@Wikibruce /Contact
ARGFest 2013 - Seattle! ARGFest.com
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:09 am
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Lorelei also follows "NASA_Astronauts". Her blog entry titled. Alpha and Omega says: 'It begins with the 11th one. It ends with the 19th one" & reffies the Apollo moon landings. astro/argo mix so far. Maybe that symbol means fire opposing water?
And Lorelei dreams on twitter wrote:
@amandel77 He came from the sky, but when he left he went over the edge of the earth. He said that's because I understand space not time.
There are also more recent blog updates and a new code under "Secrets" I can get a handle on. Code LINK
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It's Decimal. Answer:"en wikipedia org wiki archaeology"
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:45 am
VelcroShoes
Greenhorn
Joined: 31 May 2010 Posts: 9 Location: Oxford, UK
As an archaeologist I am *WOOT!* excited for this What's the twitter account for this? Anyone done a wiki yet?
ETA:
In true archaeologist form, I know that ship! It's a reconstruction, the Min of the Desert. http://www.fsu.edu/news/2009/03/09/egyptian.sailors/
-VS
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:16 pm
booba
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
I'm not to clear on the process, but I think
maknqodmt vvawvsur rea 3455 94 216
leads to here:
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:50 pm
MensVenatus
Decorated
Joined: 29 Apr 2010 Posts: 273 Location: Ottawa Ontario
@loreleidreams
No wiki yet that I know of
_________________ Icefly ruined my teeth
Aguatero Industries was fun
So was I was Charlotte Bronte
Wondering what happened to what happened to Sarah
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:10 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
Lorelei dreams on twitter wrote:
Each room held something different. Some were rooms of life, and others were rooms of death. I used to remember the way through. .....I've always known the way, since I first began walking. My parents knew the way. We all knew the way. Except for outsiders...
From Lorelei's tweets plus her Blog entry nbrs. googling to the site Booba posted she's describing a lost culture/civilization.
Based on the above and her "snake woman" blog picture reckon one specific spot she's mentioned is the Minoan Knossos Palace, also known as Labyrinth, on Crete. Tweeted Lorelei asking if those names were familiar as her "home by the sea".
Lorelei on twitter replied/ wrote:
My home was an island surrounded by the most beautiful ocean. We always called it Χάνδακας, but that was not it's real name
Google says Χάνδακας is the Greek word for "Candia", a name given to Crete during its time under Venetian rule.SOURCE
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"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 4:37 am
Jezebel the Nun
Boot
Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Bay Area
thebruce wrote:
The binary on the 'note' posted to tumblr decodes to
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upltj
vrmez
pvh
Is it possible that this is in some form of Croatian? I haven't been able to translate it directly, but when each term is searched on its own, it tends to lead to something having to do with Croats.
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:15 pm
Jung
Veteran
Joined: 24 May 2009 Posts: 96 Location: Barcelona
I've found info about the ink-written symbols on her blog entry here:
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russian wikipedia page: http://bit.ly/ezfcWL
The russian text tranlates to: A spiral line inscription, executed in ink on the inner surface of the bowl (top view)
with a reference that lead to this book: Arthur J. Evans, Scripta Minoa:The Written documents of Minoan Crete, a book about Cretan hieroglyphs.
The same picture (ink-written inscriptions inside cup) can be found on page 29:
http://www.archive.org/stream/scriptaminoawrit01evanuoft#page/28/mode/2up
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:31 pm
MensVenatus
Decorated
Joined: 29 Apr 2010 Posts: 273 Location: Ottawa Ontario
Nice find Jung. Interesting stuff on this page; some stuff on Luigi Pernier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Pernier
known for finding/concocting the disk of Phaistos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_of_Phaistos
which is either an ancient cipher or a big hoax, depending who you believe.
_________________ Icefly ruined my teeth
Aguatero Industries was fun
So was I was Charlotte Bronte
Wondering what happened to what happened to Sarah
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:56 pm
amandel
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee
Joined: 15 Jan 2008 Posts: 4096 Location: Nederland
lorelei dreams wrote:
I have a secret for anyone who wants it, but you have to figure out how to find it.
WOW to you both! Heard of the infamous disc, not the Linear-A-Cup named from its type of Minoan Script . Update @Lorelei
_________________ "I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent."
"Can you hook up with a Snow Person? Can't tell you or I'd have to marry you."
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:10 pm
booba
Unfictologist
Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 1433
Yowser!! Impressive work!
I've tried everything I can think of to convert
maknqodmt vvawvsur rea
into:
traumwerk stanford edu
thinking maybe the same process will work on
upltj vrmez pvh and Emtvaha
Either the letter spacing is just a coincidence, or I'm just not seeing it.
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:57 am
Jezebel the Nun
Boot
Joined: 21 Mar 2011 Posts: 48 Location: Bay Area
Emtvaha
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emt vähä means "a little" in Finnish
Don't know if that helps, but I've been exhausting all of my options on these translations.
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:37 pm
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