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[TRAILHEAD] Ridley Scott's Prometheus Viral...
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alcarcalimo2364
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 		Re: French + Translation from **WEYLAND call
THEREALOWINN wrote:


"After the kingship descended from heaven, the kingship was in Eridug. In Eridug, Alulim became king; he ruled for 28800 years."


I KNEW I saw that earlier! This is getting interesting

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tpbiv
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 		Its closer than you think..
That is the caption to the image of the pliedes photo on the prometheusuk fb page...

Made me think of the original title to the movie, : Paradise.

I tried it though, doesnt work. Sad

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zeegangeorge
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 		Going backwards....
Sorry about this but I had a couple new thoughts and want to see if you guys can make something of them...

First: Going back to the Pleiades, notice how there are seven. (and by the way, 7 is a huge number in EVERY SINGLE CULTURE. Good luck on your quest though.) But how many Davids are there? 8. So I did some research on them. Look what I found:

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The Greek poet Hesiod mentions the Pleiades several times in his Works and Days. As the Pleiades are primarily winter stars, they feature prominently in the ancient agricultural calendar. Here is a bit of advice from Hesiod:
"And if longing seizes you for sailing the stormy seas,
when the Pleiades flee mighty Orion
and plunge into the misty deep
and all the gusty winds are raging,
then do not keep your ship on the wine-dark sea
but, as I bid you, remember to work the land."
(Works and Days 618-23)
The Pleiades would "flee mighty Orion and plunge into the misty deep" as they set in the West, which they would begin to do just before dawn during October–November, a good time of the year to lay up your ship after the fine summer weather and "remember to work the land"; in Mediterranean agriculture autumn is the time to plough and sow.


WHAT??? ORION AND THE PLEIADES? Excellent, right? But look what else I found:


The coordinates for Eridu where the Tower of Babel (Borochial implant) was located according to Sumerian myth, 30°48'52.44"N 45°59'37.71"E, are in Iraq. It is also intriguing to note that Babylon resides only a couple hundred kilometers away from that point.

Also interesting about the tower...

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Possible location of Tower of Babel
The Egyptologist David Rohl, has conjectured that Eridu, to the south of Ur, was the original Babel and site of the Tower of Babel, rather than the later city of Babylon, for several reasons:[3][4]
The ziggurat ruins of Eridu are far larger and older than any others, and seem to best match the Biblical description of the unfinished Tower of Babel.
One name of Eridu in cuneiform logograms was pronounced "NUN.KI" ("the Mighty Place") in Sumerian, but much later the same "NUN.KI" was understood to mean the city of Babylon.
The much later Greek version of the King-list by Berossus (c. 200 BC) reads "Babylon" in place of "Eridu" in the earlier versions, as the name of the oldest city where "the kingship was lowered from Heaven".
Rohl et al. further equate Biblical Nimrod, said to have built Erech (Uruk) and Babel, with the name Enmerkar (-KAR meaning "hunter") of the king-list and other legends, who is said to have built temples both in his capital of Uruk and in Eridu.
Other scholars have discussed at length a number of additional correspondences between the names of "Babylon" and "Eridu". Historical tablets state that Sargon of Akkad (ca. 2300 BC) dug up the original "Babylon" and rebuilt it near Akkad, though some scholars suspect this may in fact refer to the much later king Sargon II.


Eridu as the place for the tower of babel continues to fit as Enki is considered the confounder of language in Sumerian legends.

Lastly, just as a note that makes me excited. In almost every Tower of Babel painting I have seen, there is a rounded pyramid.... Very similar to the pyramid that has the SJ in it, and the original place that held the eggs... Food for thought...

I know there is the possibility that I am rehashing points but I thought they could be of use since the PMs won't guide their puppets much more than they have been.

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Yoko99
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 		As you all know, it's that same poet, Hesiod, who tells extensively of Prometheus, again in Works and Days.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 11:22 pm
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sersly
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 		The Pleiades, closer than we think? Interesting bit of trivia:

Here on earth references abound to those Seven Sisters. Seven excellent women's liberal arts colleges–Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, all founded between 1837 and 1839–were once collectively known by that name, though these days in Boston, if you ask to see the Seven Sisters, you'll be directed you to the Museum of Fine Arts, where two John Singer Sargent paintings are together referred to that way.

Ask for the Seven Sisters in Moscow, and you'll wind up touring the buildings Joseph Stalin ordered to compete with New York's skyscrapers; in Germany, you'll be referring to the regional stock markets; pretty much anywhere in Europe you'll be using the disparaging name hung on the American-British companies that control Middle East oil.

But do not despair, since you might just as easily be thought to seek a magical place named for the Pleiades, and wind up in Tottenham, North London, on what was once perhaps a Pagan sacred site featuring a ring of elm trees. The story goes that in 1840, the trees were thought to be 500 years old, and have twice been replaced, again in a ring, the first time in 1886 by women named the Hibbert sisters and the second, in 1955, by the Basten sisters.

Beware, however, that there are five known Seven Sisters Roads in London, so be specific if that's where you are headed.

Of course, once you start talking places in London, you're talking music and literature. Not every place is as famous as Penny Lane or 221b Baker Street, but practically every street has a story, and Seven Sisters Road is no exception. Among the many renditions: Bristol-based hard rock band Alien Stash Tin's song by that name and the one from Nick Hornby's fabulous novel, High Fidelity. Every fan knows that Rob Fleming, the book's main character, lives right there, on Seven Sisters Road

From http://thesisterproject.com/sisterpedia/celestial-sisters-x-7-the-pleaides/#more-190


Also having more fun with the "7" thing -

Peter Weyland was born in Mumbai, India - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_islands_of_Bombay

The seven islands of Bombay were an archipelago of islands that were, over a span of five centuries, connected to form the area of the modern city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in India.

One last interesting thing of note - And I might be stretching it a bit here.

The timeline says one of peter weylands parents (presumably, mother?) was an Oxford educated professor. There is a tavern near there: Seven Stars, Oxford, UK.

Meh, maybe think more on this tomorrow, I think I'm grasping a bit to far out now.

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Melodyman
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 		This had better be one helluva great friggin password..

If it turns out to be popcorn or sumsuch, I will hump the dog..

PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:32 am
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paladinryan
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 		Caves and Star Maps
This is from the wikipedia page on the Lascaux caves:

In recent years, new research has suggested that the Lascaux paintings may incorporate prehistoric star charts. Dr Michael Rappenglueck of the University of Munich argues that some of the non-figurative dot clusters and dots within some of the figurative images correlate with the constellations of Taurus, The Pleiades and the grouping known as the "Summer Triangle".[11] Based on her own study of the astronomical significance of Bronze Age petroglyphs in the Vallée des Merveilles[12] and her extensive survey of other prehistoric cave painting sites in the region — most of which appear to have been specifically selected because the interiors are illuminated by the setting sun on the day of the winter solstice — French researcher Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez has further proposed that the gallery of figurative images in the Great Hall represents an extensive star map and that key points on major figures in the group correspond to stars in the main constellations as they appeared in the Paleolithic.[13][14]

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paladinryan
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 		Re: Caves and Star Maps
Could these be the stars?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Triangle

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Melodyman
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 		Is this IG or OOG?

http://www.yutanicorp.com

PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:15 am
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GuestUser17
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Melodyman wrote:
Is this IG or OOG?

http://www.yutanicorp.com


That's a good question that previously generated a lot of discussion. It is not registered to Fox but instead to another promotional agency not linked to this campaign. There has been no in game reference to it. I would lean towards out of game but given that the weylandindustries site used to be owned by the same agency I can't rule it out. I would keep an eye on it but for now I consider it OOG.

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zeegangeorge
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 		OOG?
Quote:
Is this IG or OOG?

http://www.yutanicorp.com


In checking the source code, all of the IG sites have very similar source code but Yutanicorp has source code that is so very different, I can't imagine that it is IG...

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Melodyman
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 		Thanks. Checking everything we find in case.. <S>

Its gotta be under one of these rocks...

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zeegangeorge
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Quote:
Thanks. Checking everything we find in case.. <S>

Its gotta be under one of these rocks...


Melodyman.... Thats what they want you to think...

But seriously, the person who figures this out better piss his pants out of sheer excitement. (Watch, they'll stand up, trip, and hit their head, killing themselves and we'll never know the blanking password!) This is getting to the point where its not fun because we don't even know if we're right side up, let alone pointing in the right direction. This password part is getting kinda ridiculous....

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r.m
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 		It's feeling like a fool's errand. I thought I learned my lesson from the countless, wasted hours I spent trying to figure out the PDP-11 PW in the days of Josh Minker. But here I'm at it again and I don't know why...

There will be a payoff - right???

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Prothal
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 		I'm curious why the 3 logos in the Project Prometheus logo they're using for a cover photo on their facebook is different from the 3 logos on the www.projectprometheus.com page.

Or not...I don't know, it's kind of hard to tell.

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/422409_238045996292465_111092022321197_475314_1493277306_n.jpg

http://www.projectprometheus.com/245409/

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