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amandel
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lorelei dreams on twitter wrote:
A 3 is a fine number. There are three in the holy trinity, and three is prime. He gave me three engraved links.


Lorelei has a blog update with a pic of the Borromean rings, used both in mathematics & as a Christian symbol (the Trinity).

Hi Jezebel, am pretty certain "Emtvaha" is a cipher and not Finnish as your spoiler. Do you have an online dictionary source?
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Jezebel the Nun
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 		http://www.fincd.com/english/v%E4h%E4.html is what I used.

And apparently, vaha also mean wax.

Everyone else was working on ciphers, so I thought I'd try another avenue. Sorry if it's getting in the way.

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amandel
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 		Jezebel, That looks like a super site, a translation is never in the way and <3 languages, am always checking them out.
This one just doesn't explain the whole letter string so it's likely a cipher 'tho.
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jabroni
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booba wrote:
I'm not to clear on the process, but I think

maknqodmt vvawvsur rea 3455 94 216

leads to here:

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http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/94/216


Haven't been on uf in a while but this looks interesting. Booba, how did you find that site? Did you find it by googling the numbers? I'm just wondering if I should focus on that result and try to work backwards or if it is just a weird coincidence and not ig.

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booba
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 		Right jabroni, no proven link. Google search for "3455 94 216" with quotes gave up only the stanford site, the letter spacing, and subject matter seemed to be a hit. Working backwards from antiquarianism gave the Stanford site about third down. Could be just a coincidence tho, and I've wasted a lot of time Sad

One a happier note, the hint "3 is a fine number":

Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Emtvaha with Affine shift 3 yields Kephala

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kephala
on which was built
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos
as found by amandel
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=829567#829567


Edit to add links

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 		Nice job!

Very Happy

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amandel
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Lorelei dreams earlier on twitter wrote:
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...HoW will I ever get back to Him, to the ENd of the earth?
Coffee Bril Booba (as usual)! Reread Lorelei's earlier tweets for a key to "His" note. Just mentioning her first 3 are lines from Syllvia Plath's Mad Girl's Love Song. Plath frequently reffied the Sea. Later her poet husband imaged her father to King Minos

The symbol on that note may represent a "Labrys", a Minoan Axe. That word appears when the jpeg is opened in notebook.
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Jung
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amandel wrote:
Lorelei dreams earlier on twitter wrote:
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...HoW will I ever get back to Him, to the ENd of the earth?


Now, new tweet with the same kind of code:

Lorelei dreams on twitter wrote:
Dearest lOve, wHere Are YOu?


We know we have to help her to find her mail, so:


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DOHAYO could be related to YAHOO where D is just "said with a smile"? Or "D" for de.yahoo "Yahoo Deutschland"?


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jessie1326
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Jung wrote:
amandel wrote:
Lorelei dreams earlier on twitter wrote:
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...HoW will I ever get back to Him, to the ENd of the earth?


Now, new tweet with the same kind of code:

Lorelei dreams on twitter wrote:
Dearest lOve, wHere Are YOu?


We know we have to help her to find her mail, so:


Spoiler (Rollover to View):
DOHAYO could be related to YAHOO where D is just "said with a smile"? Or "D" for de.yahoo "Yahoo Deutschland"?


Just chiming in... I think the first capital letter can be safely ignored in both of these, because they were the first letters of the message. If that's correct,
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then the first message is "WHEN," which makes sense given the clock, etc., in the tumblr page. The second message is probably just YAHOO, which also makes sense if she wants you to find an email of some kind.


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jabroni
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 		I tried sending an email to loreleidreamsSPLATyahoo.com. Here is what I got back:

Quote:
Hello. Thank you for finding me. I have so much to share, and the Twitter is so brief.

I have three stories to share with the you. Here is the first:

He came from the sea when I was a young woman still sheltered by my mother. My father drowned when I was a child and I spent many hours watching the sea, at first waiting for him to come back, and eventually just thinking about him and wondering what he was like. That's when I met the man I will call Tamas. He was amazingly beautiful and wise and he came to love me. We were together on the island for a long time, until his people came to take him back. Then he had to choose, between going home and staying with me. He wanted to go home, but he had this idea that he could come back for me eventually. He wanted to leave me somewhere safe, where he could find me again, and where he could write letters to me, so he brought me to where I am now.

I don't like it here. The goddess dressed in blue, the one they worship, is not as strong and beautiful as my goddess. She is submissive and weak. Also, the women here don't believe that Tamas will come back for me. Some of them don't believe that he ever existed. Tamas wrote me some letters, which I will share with you eventually, but I haven't heard from him for a long time.

The dreams are what keep me going. I find the images from the dreams and post them to my log. I hope you find them interesting.


-Lorelei


I am at work now so I haven't read this to closely. Hopefully someone else can check it out and find out where it leads.

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bluesylvia
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jabroni wrote:
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I don't like it here. The goddess dressed in blue, the one they worship, is not as strong and beautiful as my goddess. She is submissive and weak.


The goddess dressed in blue might mean the Virgin Mary.
I think Lorelei's goddess may be the Minoan snake goddess called Britomartis. One of her symbols is the labrys.

e: asked Lorelei if Britomartis was her goddess, she replied that "Back then, our goddess did not have a name." I don't think this definitively means Britomartis isn't the goddess in question, though, since according to Wiki, "Britomartis ("sweet maid") is an epithet that does not reveal the goddess's name, nor her character, for it has the ring of an apotropaic euphemism."

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 		New tweet and tumblr

http://twitter.com/#/loreleidreams

http://loreleidreams.tumblr.com/

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MensVenatus
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 		Sacrifice picture could also be an infinity symbol, which, like the rings, are also used in mathematics.

Seems like the use of the symbol itself only became in general used in 16-1700's, although the Greek philosopher Zeno had a few paradoxes and such that touched on the concept. Mind you, it's not on its side, so it may have nothing to do with that symbol at all

Haven't been able to find the actual picture anywhere yet. I sent a note to Lorelei to see if she has a story to tell us about it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity_symbol#The_infinity_symbol
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