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[Gestas]

Maybe: not a rebus?

A rebus is defined by google here.

(Two of the definitions are the same:A puzzle postcard on which words, phrases, or sentences are represented by pictures of objects and signs, the names of which, when sounded in sequence, afford the solution.)



Edit: Some examples of rebuses would be the game of Dingbats (if you ever played it), or can be seen here.
An example might be:

STAND
EYE = I understand. (Nb/ a rebus might use a picture of an eye or stand etc.)

So, I think we're being told that the picture has a passing resemblance to a rebus but isn't?
Again, I repeat

[Daedalus-XIII]

Maybe a hint, that we have to care for the phonetics of the letters rather than the literal meaning in one of the various mesopotamic languages.

alphabet->read->speak->listen->think

[slaaneshi]

Notarebus image thing

[rowan]

[rowan]

Been talking with some peeps in #unfiction

They think the first line might refer to the waterwheel, the second alchemy, and the third books. Hopefully this will put us down the right path.

Edit: robmagus thinks it might have something to do with Babylon. He thinks they were among the first to use the waterwheel and to record things using symbols.

[JoeUser]

I was going to say Babylon too, and that takes you to pollux.php (which is a sign we're close, I think).

Though really the civilization would be

[rowan]

[JoeUser]

There was an update...

simon and sumeria now go to a new page:

[vidstudent]

I figure I'll warn you all in advance that I asked something through the Jan Termin box, in the usual manner.

...which is, to say, that I encrypted it. Only a bit nastier than usual, so we'll see if he responds in kind. ^_^;;

[rowan]

[JoeUser]

Oh, sorry: Marduk was the big Babylonian god, and the description on the page rang a bell. Also, remember the other city in the game was Kudram, which as someone pointed out, is Marduk backwards.

OK, I have some of the ASCII done:

[rowan]

Ya, I see that now after I googled for "created great beast slew heaven earth". No wonder I couldn't find anything - I was just looking at the page names not names on the pages. And man, is that last thing ASCII hideous. I'll help working on it after I finish with the wiki.

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Oh, btw, that comment about Sebastian falling off his seat again at the end of that page...someone has obviously been looking at my website. When I was first making the site, I was trying to tell when the dns propagated, so I put a silly note on the index page that said "Talk about stupid. Sebastian fell off the couch again."

Actually, you have no idea how much this makes me happy. I just had to put Sebastian to sleep a couple of weeks ago, so it's nice to see his name pop up like this.

[JoeUser]

OK, after messing around a bit, it's