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[TRAILHEAD] Ridley Scott's Prometheus Viral...
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SevenSonicStructures
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r.m wrote:
There will be a payoff - right???


Hahahahaha... Aww, man. Well, I hope so!
I feel like giving up, again. In any case, I followed some of the recent ideas with Pleiades and stuff, and thought this was interesting:

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The distance to the Pleiades can be used as an important first step to calibrate the cosmic distance ladder. As the cluster is so close to the Earth, its distance is relatively easy to measure and has been estimated by many methods.


I felt like checking the distance of each individual star, but they're still very far away (600 light years in average), it's mostly remarkable for being a close starcluster. I see no reference to planets in any of these, although Merope looks interesting mosly because of the related mythos.

Not sure if this has been posted before but:

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The Pleiades are a prominent sight in winter in the Northern Hemisphere and in summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and have been known since antiquity to cultures all around the world, including the Māori, Aboriginal Australians, the Persians, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Maya, the Aztec, and the Sioux and Cherokee. In Tamil culture this star is attributed to Lord Murugan (Lord Murugan raised by the six sisters known as the Kārththikai Pengal and thus came to be known as Kārtikeyan), in Sanskrit he is noted as Skanda.

The Babylonian star catalogues name them MUL.MUL or "star of stars", and they head the list of stars along the ecliptic, reflecting the fact that they were close to the point of vernal equinox around the 23rd century BC.


So it's a parallel to all cultures we know. The Babylonian star catalogue has plenty of names we could try: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_star_catalogues. Interesting to note: Only the equivalent of Sagitarius has its own separate wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA.BIL.SAG. Remember what I mentioned above about focusing on defeating the Gods' punishment?

There's also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus#Comparative_myths
Remember Weyland's mother studied this. Every culture depicted in the pictograms from the trailer shared the elements i'm posting here. It's a good read.

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Nerdygamerchick
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SevenSonicStructures wrote:

There's also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus#Comparative_myths
Remember Weyland's mother studied this. Every culture depicted in the pictograms from the trailer shared the elements i'm posting here. It's a good read.


Hi there, I've been reading for a bit, brought here by my friend Xanzul, figured i better register and get in on this madness.

I went here and found something that kinda popped out at me, though it might not mean anything but figured i should share and let you guys disseminate for yourselves!

From the link provided above there is this:
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Mayan myth holds that Tepeu and Kukulkán (Quetzalcoatl) made the first humans from clay, but they were unsatisfactory.


I did a search for Quetzalcoatl, to look up some info on him, and the page is quite interesting, but i will paste this segment:

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Quetzalcoatl is one of the four sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, he was often considered the god of the morning star, and his twin brother Xolotl was the evening star (Venus). As the morning star he was known by the title Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, meaning "lord of the star of the dawn." He was known as the inventor of books and the calendar, the giver of maize (corn) to mankind, and sometimes as a symbol of death and resurrection. Quetzalcoatl was also the patron of the priests and the title of the twin Aztec high priests.
Most Mesoamerican beliefs included cycles of suns. Usually, our current time was considered the fifth sun, the previous four having been destroyed by flood, fire and the like. Quetzalcoatl went to Mictlan, the underworld, and created fifth-world mankind from the bones of the previous races (with the help of Cihuacoatl), using his own blood, from a wound in his penis, to imbue the bones with new life.


Now - to me this sounds an awful lot like our Peter Weyland - creating a new form of life (the David(s)) - I dont know about him doing it from a wound on his manhood, but in general terms this sounds like our guy.

another tie in to something user r.m posted:
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Since they keep redirecting us to the David-8 video, how about David the biblical king? Here's a quote from the book of Samuel (1 Samuel 16 verses 10 – 13). It's interesting that this David is son number 8.

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10 Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, "The LORD has not chosen these." 11 So he asked Jesse, "Are these all the sons you have?"
"There is still the youngest," Jesse answered. "He is tending the sheep."
Samuel said, "Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives."
12 So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features.
Then the LORD said, "Rise and anoint him; this is the one."
13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David.

I don't think this has been mentioned yet – unless I missed it. Just something else to consider. I don't know what kind of connection it could have but...


THIS story sounds exactly like our Mayan in question - here is an excerpt from the wiki about Ehecatl, which was another name given to Quetzalcoatl:
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He is most usually interpreted as the aspect of the Feathered Serpent deity as a god of wind. Ehecatl also figures prominently as one of the creator gods and culture heroes in the mythical creation accounts documented for pre-Columbian central Mexican cultures.[2]
Since the wind blows in all directions, Ehecatl was associated with all the cardinal directions. His temple was built as a cylinder in order to reduce the air resistance, and was sometimes portrayed with two protruding masks through which the wind blew.
As the fourth sun was destroyed in the Aztec creation myth (due to the gods not being satisfied with the men they had created) the gods gathered in Teotihuacan. There Nanahuatzin and Tecciztecatl jumped into a sacrificial fire and became the sun and the moon. They remained immobile until Ehecatl blew hard on them. At first only the sun moved, but once the sun started moving the moon also moved.


I know this is a lot of copy and pasting, but does anyone else see the similarities here - as well as the god being a winged serpent (Aquila? a bird?), the creation story, -- i feel like i'm looking right at something and just not seeing the forest for the trees.

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Prothal
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 		Yeah it's possible. The problem is - there's a bunch of other things that also have similarities. No harm in continuing down the road you're going though.

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Nerdygamerchick wrote:
i feel like i'm looking right at something and just not seeing the forest for the trees.


First post here also, and I completely understand what you are saying. It's even hard to find exactly what the first clue is... is it Orion/Cosmic Call, or Eridu, or the Pleaides? IMO the image posted on the UK FB page may not even be part of the game.

The 2 URLs are the most solid clue there is. There must be some relationship, and it may lie somewhere in the comparative mythology, but that is such a huge can of worms...

Better than a good novel though. Obsessed Wink

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 		been lurking since Sunday and wanted to chime in.

Perhaps a simple substitution for the two URLs may work?

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 		The input only takes or appears to only take 13 characters.

A possible link between Orion and Eridu is the Sumerian king Enmerkar (wiki) who built temples in Eridu and is thought to parallel Nimrod the Hunter from the Bible. Apparently the 'kar' bit means hunter.

That's the most literal mythological connection I could find so far.

hunter, nope. thehunter, narp.

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AIR_CAV wrote:
I went to the UK facebook and below is the files name for the pic Pleiades they posted. I tried it as the pw and added to the url but got nothing.



389246_354408467933606_226521220722332_1008694_1240749638_n
If the Fb account is genuine then isn't this file name worth looking into? Not sure it's a map reference but it seems odd that it would have been randomly created with such a long string.
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 		just my thoughts



merged with original Pleiades photo
can you see any difference?



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ChrisPachi wrote:
The input only takes or appears to only take 13 characters.


Sorry, bad info. The AJAX query will take any amount of characters from the input.

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Weyland industries motion background
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Obviously im not the first to notice this but I haven't seen anyone bring up this in earlier posts and forgive me if they have but I literally just scoured for well over forty minutes of forum posts.

I have noticed the motion background image on https://www.weylandindustries.com tends to get some form of interference roughly in a cycle of 8 seconds for a small blip then at 15 seconds for a larger blip where the colours split into (what appears to me) red, green and blue colour fragments. (kinda like when you take your 3D glasses off when watching a real 3D movie at the cinema). Im not sure if it will make any difference but im gonna hunt through any draws to find a pair, see if this is true and works. If I find anything i'l re-post.


Ive recently watched the talk with Damon & Ridley and the 3D element plays a major part in the release of this movie. It was shot entirely on 3D cameras. Could be a hint to the use of the 3D glasses....or maybe not.

I havent played an ARG since Hanso days from TLE, which if that is anything to go by the wait is sometimes worth it.
Looking at the "video" behind the timeline the 3-D effect seems to be more obvious. Did you have any luck looking into this?
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DrBunker wrote:
AIR_CAV wrote:
I went to the UK facebook and below is the files name for the pic Pleiades they posted. I tried it as the pw and added to the url but got nothing.



389246_354408467933606_226521220722332_1008694_1240749638_n
If the Fb account is genuine then isn't this file name worth looking into? Not sure it's a map reference but it seems odd that it would have been randomly created with such a long string.


Try saving an image from your own facebook profile. They all have file names like that, plus the image posted on twitter was called '4xang.jpg'.

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 		Ah, that explains that. I'm not a Fbooker. Smile
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 		Might be a clutching at straws a bit, but has anyone tried to match the background video https://www.weylandindustries.com/vid/wc_spheres.ogv to the Pleiades or Orion?

The three larger spheres could correlate to Orion's belt or the three 'larger' of the Pleiades (Atlas / Alcyone / Electra)...

Not sure how that would help though!

edditted-ed coz i cnnit spel propa...

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stee_w wrote:
Might be a clutching at straws a bit

That's all any of us have got! Twisted Evil

I just hope there's something behind this current curtain...
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 		more straws - the background image of Peter Weyland clenching his fist has the 'twitter feed' screen (which gave us the bit.ly url for the trailer) hidden behind the 'modules'; is there anything on there?

(wish i could check these thing myself, but at work and I dont think the boss would be too happy!!)

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