in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Does anybody know Latin?
According to sources, this phrase, "in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" is a palindrome (reads the same forward as it does backward), and it's a riddle. It can't be directly translated, as some of the words are used in the wrong format, yet is commonly known as "The Devil's Verse."
The reason I ask? More LOST obsession, of course.
At one point, if you visited TheHansoFoundadtion.org using https instead of http, you were taken to the phrase bigspaceship1.com. Upon visiting bigspaceship1.com, you were treated to an image of two polar bears (where might I have seen a polar bear recently?) intersecting at a red dot with "2FENO6" in the dot. The TITLE of the page was in morse code, and translated to Chocolate Asclepius. Asclepius was the son of the Greek God, Apollo. Any viewers of lost can now surmise that this has to do with the Apollo Bars that Kate and Hurley found in the food storage. Upon further investigation, my friend Sammy discovered that "Apollo Bars" have nothing to do with Chocolate, and rather are magnetic panels.... Hrm....
So, I visit bigspaceship1.com last night, and the image of intersecting polar bears has been replaced by a lounging polar bear, with no remarkable dots or symbols. The morse code, too has been replaced. It now reads "in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni." Thus, this lengthy post.
On another note, In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni is a movie by French director, Guy Debord. Maybe something to do with Rousseau?
One other note - according to Wikipedia, the word "Nocte" translates literally to Village People. Something to do with "The Others?"
Anybody have any ideas?
Click here to visit BigSpaceShip1.com:
-El Capitan
According to sources, this phrase, "in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" is a palindrome (reads the same forward as it does backward), and it's a riddle. It can't be directly translated, as some of the words are used in the wrong format, yet is commonly known as "The Devil's Verse."
The reason I ask? More LOST obsession, of course.
At one point, if you visited TheHansoFoundadtion.org using https instead of http, you were taken to the phrase bigspaceship1.com. Upon visiting bigspaceship1.com, you were treated to an image of two polar bears (where might I have seen a polar bear recently?) intersecting at a red dot with "2FENO6" in the dot. The TITLE of the page was in morse code, and translated to Chocolate Asclepius. Asclepius was the son of the Greek God, Apollo. Any viewers of lost can now surmise that this has to do with the Apollo Bars that Kate and Hurley found in the food storage. Upon further investigation, my friend Sammy discovered that "Apollo Bars" have nothing to do with Chocolate, and rather are magnetic panels.... Hrm....
So, I visit bigspaceship1.com last night, and the image of intersecting polar bears has been replaced by a lounging polar bear, with no remarkable dots or symbols. The morse code, too has been replaced. It now reads "in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni." Thus, this lengthy post.
On another note, In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni is a movie by French director, Guy Debord. Maybe something to do with Rousseau?
One other note - according to Wikipedia, the word "Nocte" translates literally to Village People. Something to do with "The Others?"
Anybody have any ideas?
Click here to visit BigSpaceShip1.com:
-El Capitan
posted by LoveBoatCaptain at
12:59 PM
4 Comments:
IN GIRUM IMUS NOCTE ET CONSUMIMUR IGNI translates to "We enter the circle after dark and are consumed by fire."
You use a lot of latin when you study law!
By
slammy62, at 10/18/2005 1:40 PM
BRAIN OVERLOAD !!!!!!!
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TrippMD, at 10/18/2005 9:07 PM
Here's something that'll make your head hurt! I got this formula from a friend in law school, she's apparently obsessed with the show as well.
Dharma is related to the numbers if you assign a letter to each number based on alphabetical sequence. When you get to 27, your start over.
4: D is the 4th letter;
8: H is the 8th letter;
15: 4+8+15=27 which wraps back to A;
16: (4+8+15=27) plus (4+8+15+16=43) so (27+43=70) which translates to R;
23: 16+23=39 which is M;
42: (4+8+15+16+23=66) and (23+42=65) (65+66=131) which is an A;
So.. thats Dharma. Any thoughts?
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slammy62, at 10/19/2005 12:54 AM
I saw that one the other day... It's a bit of a stretch....
I think that's a little too much work - even for the producers of LOST...
-El Capitan
By
LoveBoatCaptain, at 10/19/2005 7:16 AM
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