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[HitsHerMark]

I'm very interested in the Lost Games stuff. I hope the Lost Game is Tombstone Poker!

Okay, so I had a chat with Lucie. Not much came out of it that's new but I did discover that she kept a diary in her first days after waking up.

Here is a transcript of our Gtalk chat with a translation at the bottom. I was very pleased with how much I was able to understand and respond without having to resort to a robo-translator. (German I took in Jr. High, French I took in High School and at University.) We didn't get to talk much before she had to go because I took my time trying to understand what she said, figuring out how to say it back in French without peeking and then needing to use the character map because I don't have an international keyboard.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhfb6bjs_0cp637vc5

Bruce? Could we get a link to that on the main page?

Also, in response to an earlier question the Language Resource page on the Wiki is here...
http://olympics.wikibruce.com/Language_Resources

[kosmopol]

Well, I'd say:

EUREKA!

I'd written to him:

[danteIL]

Eli Hunt's vidcasts on dotsub are here:

http://dotsub.com/home/user/index.php?target=5916

Conveniently enough, they have been pre-subtitled into Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese...

So it's pretty clear what we're supposed to do with them..

[Elle_P]

Newbie, found out about this game via a Wired.com article, just wanted to post my speculation.

[Weezel]

[morbus]

Interesting spec, Weezel. Didn't someone earlier in the thread mention that Noriko wrote a lot and told good stories?

[FMG]

[Deadman0309]

[Shad0]

Re: The Lost Games

[Weezel]

[HitsHerMark]

Incidentally. Eli's other podcast.

The Ancient Game Keepers

Says that "Earth-Shaker" was written on the wall of the chamber.

This, I can tell you because he was my High School Mascot, is a reference to Poseidon.

I'll start looking into any connections between Poseidon and the Olympics.

[Shad0]

Eli Hunt

[RedHatty]

I sent an email to Eli Hunt with links to the 6's vids/ sites. Let's see what he says about it all

[konamouse]

March 3 - We found her (Ariadne)
March 3-5 - We found the others
March 5 - We found him (Eli)

I think we are right on schedule!

Next: March 11 - Find the Secret.

[Deadman0309]

Well, i believe that the word EARTH-SHAKER is in reference of Knossos, an archeological site in Crete, and we could see that the legend is this:

The palace is about 130 meters on a side and since the Roman period has been suggested as the source of the myth of the Labyrinth, an elaborate mazelike structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.

Labyrinth comes from the word labrys, referring to a double, or two-bladed, axe. Its representation had a religious and probably magical significance. It was used throughout the Mycenaean world as an apotropaic symbol; that is, the presence of the symbol on an object would prevent it from being "killed." Axe motifs were scratched on many of the stones of the palace. It appears in pottery decoration and is a theme of the Shrine of the Double Axes at the palace, as well as of many shrines throughout Crete and the Aegean. The etymology of the name is not known; it is probably not Greek. The form labyr-inthos uses a suffix generally considered to be pre-Greek.

The location of the labyrinth of legend has long been a question for Minoan studies. It might have been the name of the palace or of some portion of the palace. Throughout most of the 20th century the intimations of human sacrifice in the myth puzzled Bronze Age scholars, because evidence for human sacrifice on Crete had never been discovered and so it was vigorously denied. The practice was finally verified archaeologically (see under Minoan civilization). It is possible that the palace was a great sacrificial center and could have been named the Labyrinth. Its layout certainly is labyrinthine, in the sense of intricate and confusing.

Many other possibilities have been suggested. The modern meaning of labyrinth as a twisting maze is based on the myth.

Several out-of-epoch advances in the construction of the palace is thought to have originated the myth of Atlantis



AND WHAT ABOUT ATLANTIS????