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[Trailhead] Lorelei Dreams
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MensVenatus
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[Trailhead] Lorelei Dreams

Got an followed on Twitter today by someone called Lorelei Dreams, seems to be a trailhead.

Three of the tweets were decoded by Amandel as

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Railfence ciphers each with 4 rails: "where the dream begins, I can go no further, there are only pictures now"


Links to
http://loreleidreams.tumblr.com/

which has several entries, including a few pictures I haven't figured out, and some stuff that seems to have an Ancient Greek theme, including quotes from Homer, Sappho, and Frederick Langbridge(ok, he's neither ancient or Greek that I know), and a row of binary that doesn't decode into anything obvious.

Looks like it might be fun…
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bluesylvia
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Got followed by her too.

Apparently Lorelei is the name of a woman who originally was accused of being an enchantress of men, luring them in and later causing to be their ruin. In another story she jumps from a rock that now bears her name to her death over an unfaithful lover, transforming to a siren-like creature [this might be in connection to the ship images on her blog?]. The rock is in Rhine near St. Goarshausen, Germany.

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Been having an interesting Twitter convo with Lorelei:

Quote:

Lorelei: If only I had someone to talk to. The dreams make me lonely.
Me: I have been left as well. You can talk to me, I understand how you feel.
Lorelei: Do you have secrets too?
Me: Secrets are what make us human.
Lorelei: I never had secrets before. Life was very simple then. There was only the sea, and my mother and father.
Me: It always begins as such. There is no need for secrets until others enter and you must hide the truth...
Lorelei: Hidden... There were hidden rooms back then. Secret hidden rooms where they went and never came out.


She also posted a picture of two triangles pointing at one another, stating they were written at the bottom of the note left by "him". Can't think of what they might mean.

PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 11:23 pm
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The binary on the 'note' posted to tumblr decodes to
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upltj
vrmez
pvh

And the symbol at the bottom of the note:

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Lorelei also follows "NASA_Astronauts". Her blog entry titled. Alpha and Omega says: 'It begins with the 11th one. It ends with the 19th one" & reffies the Apollo moon landings. Cool astro/argo mix so far. Maybe that symbol means fire opposing water?


And Lorelei dreams on twitter wrote:
@amandel77 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.


There are also more recent blog updates and a new code under "Secrets" I can get a handle on. Code LINK
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It's Decimal. Answer:"en wikipedia org wiki archaeology"

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VelcroShoes
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As an archaeologist I am *WOOT!* excited for this Very Happy What's the twitter account for this? Anyone done a wiki yet?

ETA:

In true archaeologist form, I know that ship! It's a reconstruction, the Min of the Desert. http://www.fsu.edu/news/2009/03/09/egyptian.sailors/

-VS

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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


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@loreleidreams

No wiki yet that I know of
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Lorelei dreams on twitter wrote:
Each room held something different. Some were rooms of life, and others were rooms of death. I used to remember the way through. .....I've always known the way, since I first began walking. My parents knew the way. We all knew the way. Except for outsiders...

From Lorelei's tweets plus her Blog entry nbrs. googling to the site Booba posted she's describing a lost culture/civilization.

Based on the above and her "snake woman" blog picture reckon one specific spot she's mentioned is the Minoan Knossos Palace, also known as Labyrinth, on Crete. Tweeted Lorelei asking if those names were familiar as her "home by the sea".

Lorelei on twitter replied/ wrote:
My home was an island surrounded by the most beautiful ocean. We always called it Χάνδακας, but that was not it's real name


Google says Χάνδακας is the Greek word for "Candia", a name given to Crete during its time under Venetian rule.SOURCE
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thebruce wrote:
The binary on the 'note' posted to tumblr decodes to
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upltj
vrmez
pvh




Is it possible that this is in some form of Croatian? I haven't been able to translate it directly, but when each term is searched on its own, it tends to lead to something having to do with Croats.

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Jung
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I've found info about the ink-written symbols on her blog entry here:

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russian wikipedia page: http://bit.ly/ezfcWL

The russian text tranlates to: A spiral line inscription, executed in ink on the inner surface of the bowl (top view)

with a reference that lead to this book: Arthur J. Evans, Scripta Minoa:The Written documents of Minoan Crete, a book about Cretan hieroglyphs.

The same picture (ink-written inscriptions inside cup) can be found on page 29:

http://www.archive.org/stream/scriptaminoawrit01evanuoft#page/28/mode/2up


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MensVenatus
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Nice find Jung. Interesting stuff on this page; some stuff on Luigi Pernier

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

known for finding/concocting the disk of Phaistos

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

which is either an ancient cipher or a big hoax, depending who you believe.
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lorelei dreams wrote:
I have a secret for anyone who wants it, but you have to figure out how to find it.

WOW to you both! Heard of the infamous disc, not the Linear-A-Cup named from its type of Minoan Script. Update @Lorelei
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Yowser!! Impressive work!


I've tried everything I can think of to convert

maknqodmt vvawvsur rea
into:
traumwerk stanford edu

thinking maybe the same process will work on

upltj vrmez pvh and Emtvaha

Either the letter spacing is just a coincidence, or I'm just not seeing it.

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Jezebel the Nun
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Emtvaha

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emt vähä means "a little" in Finnish


Don't know if that helps, but I've been exhausting all of my options on these translations.

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