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KevDude · Veteran Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Posts: 78

[SOLVED] Fears/Phobias on Amazing Grace

**Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:49 pm

darkphan · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 113

2.jpg Ommatophobia - Fear of eyes
3.jpg Cyberphobia - Fear of computers or working on a computer
4.jpg Taphephobia - Fear of being buried alive
5.jpg Pedophobia - Fear of children.
6.jpg Achluophobia - Fear of darkness
7.jpg Iatrophobia - Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
8.jpg Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings
9.jpg Metallophobia - Fear of metal
10.jpg Murophobia - Fear of mice
11.jpg Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets
12.jpg Ligyrophobia - Fear of loud noises (Fireworks)
13.jpg Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting
14.jpg Dromophobia - Fear of crossing streets
or
14.jpg Agyrophobia - Fear of crossing the street
15.jpg Hierophobia - Fear of priests
16.jpg Mythophobia - Fear of false statements/Myths
17.jpg Ornithophobia - Fear of birds

**Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:52 pm

darkphan · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 113

Just to give a little credit here, in IRC, enaxor let us know there were new popups. After looking at the images, and doing some google searching on the words muro, taphe, paedo, I had realized the images were dealing with phobias. Then kevdude, justlurking, and myself looked up the phobias and compiled the list...

Edit: Clarifying how I realized they were phobias[/i]

darkphan · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 113

Images that are in the popups... (2.jpg - 6.jpg)

**Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:32 pm

darkphan · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 113

can someone upload images 7.jpg through 16.jpg? I am having a problem uploading them

**Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2004 11:52 pm

grumpyboy · Unfettered Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 660

I noticed that the popups come up in a specific order (I checked twice). The order is:

10.jpg, 4.jpg, 5.jpg in the first group
2
3
14
15
6
7
8
9
11
12
13
16
17

Taking first letter of the phobias in this order doesn't yield anything either...

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:22 am

darkphan · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 113

Leaving off the MTP (from the 3 on the first page) you get the following anagrams (using Agyrophobia for 14.jpg):

MELOPHOBIA MAC
MELOPHOBIA CAM

Melophobia - Fear or hatred of music

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:43 am

konamouse

Okay, popups 7-11.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:31 am

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Popups 12-17

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 1:36 am

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Wishi-san

I thought that the Greek words that these were derived from might be useful although I've not figured anything out myself from it. I don't think some of them are "real" phobias and so I couldn't find a Greek base for some.

Murophobia could also be Musophobia.

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LGarrett · Boot Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 39 Location: Austin, TX

I think #12 should be Anthrophobia or Anthophobia.

The picture looks more like a flower than fireworks to me, but that may be simply because of the resolution.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:14 am

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Wishi-san

That's a good point, it looks more like flowers to me too.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 6:30 am

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konamouse

Putting them into Grumpyboy's order of appearence (and trying to make sense of stuff in my own head, using darkphans initial idea of phobias):

Initial group:
Muro (mice), Taphe (burial), Paedo (child)
Omma (eye)
Cyber - Kybernao (computer, guide/steer)
??? (I'm not sure of this one, could just be "stop", or "Don't walk")
Hiero (holy, priest)
Lygo (darkness)
Iatro (physician)
Bato (heights)
Metallo (metal)
Pupa (puppets)
Antho (flower)
Emeto (vomiting)
Mytho (myth)
Ornitho (bird)

Here is a phobia list.
I found a different one for darkness (putting the L back in the list when we changed firewords/loud noise to flowers).

Fear of walking = Basophobia, Ambulophobia
Fear of crossing streets = Dromophobia

MTP OC_HLIBMPAEMO
MTP OCDHLIBMPAEMO

We want it to relate to music and the composition sounds like fear or hatred of having to take music lessons.
Take out Melophobia and we have left: T C D M M P (or T C A M M P) which don't anagram for me.

But why the specific order of popups? Doesn't ROT. And anagram gets us that nifty music link. I've tried melophobia.com and melophobia.htm at The Unraveling. What's the missing link?

/me heads of to work, leaving this puzzle in more capable hands.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:43 am

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reading initial letters upwards, i see:
omeapmbilh.com
-- total nosense?

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:40 pm

darkphan · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2004 Posts: 113

12 seems more like an arial fireworks show... (which, when they explode, they "bloom") ... If it were a flower, how would the black background be explained? This past forth of July, my wife took many, many pictures of the fireworks at the show we went to. The image looks more like those she took than any flower.

**Posted:** Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:53 pm