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[PUZZLE] Are you the seventh son?
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eMouse
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 		Use the 'code' tag for getting something like that lined up...

Code:

   h|ome|n
 tou|can|dle
suic|ide|a
   m|any|where
 doc|tor|nado


PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:53 am
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Salkunh
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 		[quote="Kender"]Note how all these fragments are Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) or Vowel-Consonant-Vowel (VCV).

Then look at things like http://www.highspeedplus.com/~edonon/Egyptian.htm
and http://www.highspeedplus.com/~edonon/saharan.htm

I do Egyptology at Liverpool Uni and hieroglyphics dont contain any vowels as the egyptians didnt use them until they started using coptic (then they go on a "Oooh arent vowels nice lets use them everywhere" but thats irrelevant) So i'm not really sure where your going with the CVC or VCV to be hieroglyphics it should really be CCC Smile
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darkphan
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 		new page ...

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using the login/password info from the email from the 7th sons on http://www.theseventhsons.com/secure.html leads us to http://www.theseventhsons.com/prove.html


PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:57 pm
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Varin
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 		The coin on prove.html is a Cretan coin that dates from second century B.C. from Knossos, Crete. The maze is a seven cycle labyrinth. It's thought to be the earliest representation of the maze from the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:29 pm
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grumpyboy
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Varin wrote:
The coin on prove.html is a Cretan coin that dates from second century B.C. from Knossos, Crete. The maze is a seven cycle labyrinth. It's thought to be the earliest representation of the maze from the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.


exact image here: http://www.labyrinthos.net/centre.htm

PostPosted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:38 pm
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The Watcher
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 		SPEC: This is all an initiation ceremony for the Seventh Sons. In the end, we are all offered membership.

From the site grumpyboy mentioned:

Quote:
Thousands of years later, nineteenth century antiquarians noted a curious custom - Welsh shepherd boys sometimes cut a labyrinth pattern into the turf as they tended their sheep on the mountains. They called these figures Caerdroia - meaning either City of Troy or City of Turnings - and said that it represented a plan of the city of Troy, defended by seven walls.


Another Seven reference.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:12 pm
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Kender
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 		sph.html
Me and the Barfing Beaver were looking at the page before sph once more.
Ilioneus might be the key to solving it.
Since we have 7 positions on sph to be filled, and Ilioneus was the 7th son of Niobe, we figured we'd give their names a try.

Code:
Ismenus             is   1,2
Sipylus             yu   4,6
Phaedimus           ph   1,2
Tantalus            tt   1,4
Alphenor            l      2
Damasicthon         a      4
Ilioneus            i      3


isyuphttlai anyone?

Another dead end? Bang Head

PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 6:42 pm
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Varin
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 		Wow, um, how'd we miss that? The labyrinth on the coin is a Cretan Labyrinth so...

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http://www.theseventhsons.com/cretanlabyrinth.html




woohoo! first solve since, I think, gridlock.html in jmx Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:22 am
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ElGameR
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Code:
Colors: Purple, Red, White, Black, Yellow, Blue, Green

Page:                     Action:
www.theseventhsons.com/   Press enter :)
index.html                Click logo   (Purple background)
entry.html                Enter 'seeker'
entry.html                Click image
antechamber.html          Enter 'knowledge'
antechamber.html          Note every 7th letter
twistedpath.html          Twists in path l,r -> binary
amoun.html                Take first letters of words
vitriol.html              Click image
portal.html               Enter 'seeker'
portal.html               Click logo   (Red background)
hall.html                 Enter 'initiate'
hall.html                 Click hidden dot at bottom of text
turns.html                Enter 'myself'
turns.html                Count ROTs & call nr
ovid.html                 Click image
sph.html                  ???


sanctum.html              Enter 'adept'
sanctum.html              Click logo   (White background)
passages.html             Look at green letters
sevenlastwords.html       Scratch certain tiles
pyramids.html             Read texts in the pyramids
immortal.html             Rot 0, rot -1, rot -2.. city of 1000 gates = luxor = thebes
thebes.html               Click image
threshhold.html           Click logo   (Black background)
literal.html              Enter 'maze'
literal.html              Read spiraling text
spiraling.html            Go left and right
leftpath.html             Line up the X's and  hieroglyphic reads down (???)
rightpath.html            ???


1.html                    Walk the maze (also gives theseventhSPLATtheseventhsons.com)
rayoflight.html           Click Log in
secure.html               Username: septimuseseptem Password: doctrinaincarnata
secure.html               Click logo (Blue Background)
prove.html                The picture is a...
cretanlabyrinth.html      ???


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 12:32 am
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Varin
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 		From cretanlabyrinth -

Quote:
If we knew the world to be a labyrinth then we would know that there is a centre. No matter whether it houses something terrible like the Minotaur or something divine. But there would be a centre. If, on the other hand, we assume the world to be chaos we would really be lost.


which is a quote by Jorge Luis Borges.
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 		Not sure if this will help, or was even meant to be found, but... in addition to the labyrinth on that page (lab1.jpg), a couple of other labyrinth images exist on the server:

http://www.theseventhsons.com/images/lab3.jpg
http://www.theseventhsons.com/images/lab4.jpg
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grumpyboy
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
kudos to enaxor who found the blue square maze on cretanlabyrinth.html here: http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/maze/branch.htm#fontana

leading us to http://www.theseventhsons.com/fontanalabyrinth.html


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The next image is the chartreslabyrinth (see heeya: http://www.lessons4living.com/chartres_labyrinth.htm )

which lead me to: http://www.theseventhsons.com/chartreslabyrinth.html


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The next image can be found heeya: http://www.unmuseum.org/maze.htm

leading me to: http://www.theseventhsons.com/egyptianlabyrinth.html


That's it for now... Wink

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Flidget Jerome
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
http://www.theseventhsons.com/eyeofhorus.html

The image fragments assemble into the eye of horus


Bah and humbug, JustLurking got there before me. Was hoping that'd be my first solve.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:50 am
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 		grumpy's last solve

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egyptianlabyrinth.html


gives us a page on which you find...

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a bunch of symbols. Going along with the Egyptian thing, and remembering some stuff I had seen earlier, I remembered that it looked like some sort of Egyptian numbering system. Looking through google, I found this site

Doing some quick checking on the SS site, I came up with the solve:

http://www.theseventhsons.com/eyeofhorus.html

Brings us to green icon page.


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JustLurking wrote:
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http://www.theseventhsons.com/eyeofhorus.html


OK, the PMs must have just made this page accessible today, because I tried this URL yesterday when the coin image showed up, and got a 404 for sure. Grrrrr.........
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