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tiercel
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Joined: 11 Aug 2004
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 		Huh.
Is there any connection between the pyramid puzzle and the poem, or is the poem just there to be "mystical text"? I ask only because it has a really odd rhyme scheme:

a
b
c
b
c
d
d
a

and stops just short of being symmetrical.

PostPosted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:37 pm
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Varin
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 		enaxor pointed out in chat that today the word "Antichrist" on the right side of the pyramid has been highlighted in red.

I've tried a columnar transposition using "antichrist" as the key and didn't get anything. The right side does mention a nefarious Divine Trinity (tripartite antichrist?) which is Djehuti, Hellenikon, and the Venerable Dick Clark.
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catherwood
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 		I had grabbed a transcription of the letters face of the pyramid from earlier in the thread, but disagreed with the letters. Here's my transcription:
Code:
 1              s
 3             ioi
 5            drtoi
 7           sdnteoh
 9          eodiiisth
11         nmpsgordhef
13        wnslhaTprshfy
15       teltrdodhtseups
17      fteonainwetnicyhu
19     iithoannggeirmidasn
21    aeratighlnaeaottbhejo
23   dehvamssiwetrtausrupilh
25  irihpeohmcodmootearswtttn

I put a capital T in the dead center. Also noting that the keyhole on the page has a triangle in it, the triangle layout of the letters does make sense, ignoring the line breaks as they appear on the pyramid face.

EDIT -- changing line 23 from dehr to dehv thanks to enaxor in chat.

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Varin
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 		Spec is in chat that the emails from the Unraveling are hints for the puzzles...

The hint for this puzzle is...

Quote:
It's time to ante up for Christ's sake.

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grumpyboy
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 		New from Ed:
Quote:
10/22/04 Update: I've been working on this Conqueror Worm page and it looks like you order the code into a triangle with 169 elements and use ANTICHRIST as the key. You drop the code into the triangle columns following alphabetically along the repeated key until all the letters are used... but what on earth do you do with the decoded text?


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Using "antichrist" as the key like Ed said and dropping the ciphertext vertically into the columns in a keyed pyramid like this:
Code:
                                    h
                                 a  p  p
                              i  n  e  s  s
                           s  o  n  o  f  t  h
                        e  r  i  g  h  t  h  a  n
                     d  j  u  d  g  m  e  n  t  a  t
                  r  o  o  p  r  e  c  o  m  p  e  n  s
               e  a  d  d  i  t  i  o  n  p  r  a  i  s  e
            o  f  t  h  e  l  o  r  d  a  s  s  o  c  i  a  t
         e  d  w  i  t  h  h  i  m  m  i  g  h  t  y  w  r  e  s
      t  l  i  n  g  s  v  i  s  i  o  n  o  f  t  h  e  s  o  n  t
   h  a  t  i  s  h  e  a  r  d  d  o  w  r  y  b  u  t  w  h  a  t  i
s  o  u  r  i  l  l  u  m  i  n  a  t  e  d  t  h  i  r  t  e  e  n  t  h

1 14 21  9  4  7 17 10 19 22  2 15 23 11  5  8 18 12 20 24  3 16 25 13  6
A  N  T  I  C  H  R  I  S  T  A  N  T  I  C  H  R  I  S  T  A  N  T  I  C


Then taking the letters off row by row from the top gives:
"happiness son of the right hand judgment a troop recompense addition praise of the lord associated with him mighty wrestlings vision of the son that is heard dowry but what is our illuminated thirteenth"

Haven't figured out where that's supposed to lead yet... (Ed might as well tell us Rolling Eyes )


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owler
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 		okay

possibly total wrong track but i might be on to something

googled "troop recompense dowry" got a lot of references to name meanings in the bible

so.. using this http://www.geocities.com/anbiblia/hitchcock.html

i've got so far... well it's the Israelite tribes...

Asher, happiness
Benjamin, son of the right hand
Dan, judgment; he that judges
Gad, a band; a troop
Issachar, reward; recompense
Joseph, increase; addition
Judah, the praise of the Lord; confession
Levi, associated with him
Naphtali, that struggles or fights (mighty wrestlings)
Reuben, who sees the son; the vision of the son
Simeon, that hears or obeys; that is heard


here's where it breaks down.. the 12th tribe is: Zebulun, Zebulon, dwelling; habitation

but we've got dowry for which i find :Zabad, dowry; endowed (also Ammizabad, dowry of the people; Elzabad, the dowry of God; Jehozabad, the Lord's dowry; having a dowry; Josabad, having a dowry; but Zabad's the only literal "dowry")

and then the last line " but what is our illuminated "

anyway, here I am stuck for the moment
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Kender
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 		Linking 'dowry' to Zebulun: http://bible.cc/genesis/30-20.htm
Quote:

The birth of Zebulun:

"Then Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons"; so she called his name Zebulun." (Genesis 30:20 RSV)


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I took the 'illuminated' to mean the Illuminati, who happen to have thirteen bloodlines: http://www.illuminati-news.com/moriah.htm

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1. Astor
2. Bundy
3. Collins
4. DuPont
5. Freeman
6. Kennedy
7. Li (Chinese)
8. Onassis
9. Rockefeller
10. Rothschild
11. Russell
12. van Duyn
13. Merovingian (European Royal Families)


And indeed:
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http://www.theunraveling.com/merovingian.html


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