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degravedi

Thanks, I do love me some Dante! I sure do still wish we had part two though to see if there's anything more on it.

Some other notes:
'eraweb' from the sender's email is 'beware' backwards.

'diritta' can also mean 'right-hand' and it's juxtaposition on top of 'diaboli' (which is latin for 'of the devil') makes 'right hand of the devil'. Though that could just be an amusing coincidence. Laughing

Edit: DOH! I would just like to note that I actually got this email. I didn't even check. *facepalm* I got part 6.

Macavity

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:54 pm

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InTRIGuing...

Ok, I'm officially following this. The Dante's inferno stuff got me hooked.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 1:44 pm

RAD24

I got this as well, with #4.

Dante's Inferno, hmm? Should be interesting.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:20 pm

follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

Nice find with the alphabet. Definitely Enochian. I got down the path of constructed languages, just not far enough apparently.

Anybody had any luck with this dam yet? I feel like I've researched the damn things more than I should have in a lifetime.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:29 pm

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Esteed

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:38 pm

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Masquedman · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2010 Posts: 77

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:39 pm

follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

Well, sometimes dams have staircases like that for maintenance or something to be used when there's no water flow.

Just to see if anyone else has noticed this (I'm probably just crazy) but if you look at the staircase and then directly above it from the picture's perspective, what does that look like to you? I zoomed in a good bit, and I can't decide if it looks like natural rock or like water.

edit: Scratch the part about being water, I just noticed that even though the top middle portion is still missing, from the surrounding images you can tell that it's a fairly narrow dam (if a dam at all) and that's probably rock from the slope it's built into.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:54 pm

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ADarkly

Hey guys, I was killing some time and I think I found your dam.

Devil's Gate Dam, Pasadena CA: http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/devils-gate-dam-pasadena-2.jpg

Suppose there might be something useful to you in the text below picture, as well, regarding the dam's history.
http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/commentary/mud-fight-what-we-need-to-think-about-before-we-dig-out-devils-gate-dam-33786.html

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:16 pm

Esteed

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:24 pm

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comadarkvale

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:28 pm

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follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

*bangs head against wall*

At least I can use the excuse of being rusty at this, right?

Nice find.

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:31 pm

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mrmiffmiff · Boot Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 14

I got number 3. I just sent an email to Lukas asking for number 2. Hopefully he'll reply Neutral

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:37 pm

degravedi

Great find, ADarkly! That is most definitely the right dam: http://www.flickr.com/photos/superjuanvi/4529723970

Perfect name too. Before Dante traveled through the circles, he entered through the Gate of Hell where the famous line was written "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

Lol, an interesting tidbit:

**Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 4:39 pm

follow your heart · Veteran Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 118 Location: AL/GA

*grumbles about nothing like this ever being referenced in the South where I can actually have some points of reference*

Okay, so I've read a good bit about this now. All I'm seeing is the business about the fire and cleanup. All of the agencies look real and OOG. LA County plans for the cleanup, etc. Anybody seeing anything involved with this that could actually lead us somewhere?

edit: Also, not that its necessarily relevant, but glossing over the Wikipedia article on Enochian, two things popped out at me. The first is that Anton LaVey apparently used it in some form in the Satanic Bible. Also, the music to the Dante's Inferno video game was sung in Enochian. Again, sort of a toss up on whether that has anything to do with anything, but thought I'd mention it given we're at a bit of an impasse right now.