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[Rik]

I really need to figure out how to use the code programs so I don't throw unnecessary info out.

Did you happen to try Antichrist or 666? Many early Christians beleived Nero to be the antichrist, and that 666 is a code for Nero's name as well. Sorry to keep looking at it from this angle, but the time frame of Nero and Rome lends itself quite well to the Biblical Scholar in me.

[analogwatch]

Ah, Matron logged on today, and I spoke to her!

[ArchaicDome]

[ForumLurker]

OK.. ..

*sighs*

it's about dang time.. I got it now.. more or less..

[ArchaicDome]

Great job, Lurker! I forgot about Bifid!

[gambler]

Re: Greek

[Jubilus]

Is there anything that should be looked at, at this point?

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[ArchaicDome]

Okay, so here's some things I know about crucifixion.

It was certainly used in Rome, but I know of no mention of it being used in Greece.

Crux weren't always t-shaped, as is the Christian icon. Sometimes it was simply one upright, St. Andrew was crucified on an X-shape, and St. Peter was crucified upside-down.

Death from crucifixion was usually from asphyxiation. With nails through the wrists and heels to support the body, the condemned would have to lift themselves up by the wrist nails in order for the lungs to expand. After hours or days on the cross without food or drink, the condemned would lose the ability to lift himself up and thus wouldn't be able to breathe.

Christ (since He was mentioned in the clue) carried His transom (cross-beam) to Golgotha (The Place of the Skull), a hill outside Jerusalem.

The only connection I can find to witches even remotely is that Jesus died at 3 PM according to Mark's Gospel, so that 3 AM (because it's the opposite) has been referred to as The Witching Hour.

That's about all I got. I haven't got ANY idea what to do with that conversation.

EDIT: Okay, maybe ONE other connection- Shortly after Nero's reign (around 71 bc) there was the Third Servile War during which Spartacus led a slave revolt. When it was over, about 6000 of Spartacus's followers were crucified along the road between Rome and Capua.

[Rik]

It is beleived that Nero had Saint Peter crucified in the year 64 A.D. If I remember correctly Peter was crucified upside down.

The Persian King Xerxes brought crucifixion to Greece, when he crucified the bodies of the Spartans after the Battle at the Hot Gates.



EDIT: If I am reading wiki right Impaling is also considered a form of crucifixion.

[Jubilus]

Well lets see here:

There is Iudas Novus. (New Judas)
As they would do to Us, he did to them.
Remember his acts against Christ.

What did Judas do to Christ? Betrayed him? Christ was crucified, but that was a result of the betrayal, not something that Judas did himself, right?

[ArchaicDome]

Also, Judas Iscariot was one of Christ's inner circle, one of his trusted ones. He didn't nail Him to the tree, but he might as well have driven Him there. Judas knew when he betrayed Jesus that it would directly result in His death. I think we need to be worried about OUR inner circle...

Sound like a conversation we've had, Lurker?

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[ArchaicDome]

Isobel.

[Pony]

I am on line with Brent right now, he is going to send me the e-mail with the new clue, I will post it when get it