Runic message in tonight's episode
John Obenauer
episode, in the Gothic scene where Homer is chained down on an altar and
Becky was going to stab him? In the letters that are showing, it looks
like 6 words, with this many letters in each: 5, 6, 1, 5, 5, 1. There
are different Runic alphabets, but based on some alphabets I found on
the Web (searching for "Runic alphabets"), it looks like the first two
words might be "Chris Bowman" (I'm guessing about the h and w here).
The single letter word is an "a" I think, followed by something like
"Ta_sa Jesus", and I don't know what the last single letter is (maybe
the beginning of some not completely shown word). Maybe these are just
some animators' names? Other than recognizing some of the letter
shapes, I'm no expert in Runes. Can anyone who knows more decipher the
message?
Johno
Lawrence Nyveen
wrote:
Yes. :)
THe runes are not Tolkien's invention as another poster implied. They
are a real alphabet, called Elder Futhark - Elder because they are an
older form of Futhark, and Futhark because this alphabet starts: F U
(TH) A R K....
Now, I happen to know Futhark.
The runes, letter by letter are as follows, with X denoting an
indecipherable or ambiguous letter (like the way my handwritten small
"v" is often mistaken for "r" :
XHRIS BOLMEX A TANXA IESUS XHRIST
Now, IESUS is Jesus, since there's no Futhark for J.
The X in front os XHRIS and XHRIST are the same sign, which can be
interpreted as C (in fact, it looks like a Futhark C, with an extra leg).
The X at the end of BOLMEX is either a N or G.
The X in TANXA is completely foreign to me. It's looks a bit like a
backwards Futhark L, but whatever letter it is, that's not an English
word.
So now we have:
CHRIS BOLME(N/G) A TANXA JESUS CHRIST
A quick look at the credits of the show reveals that one of the
background artists is Chris Bolden. Mystery solved, even if his Futhark
is a little shaky - he mixed up the signs for M and D, which are
similar, but he used the wrong one.
Final Answah:
CHRIS BOLDEN A TAN-A JESUS CHRIST
It's up to you to guess the meaning, though....
--
Laurie Nyveen nyv...@videotron.canada
a.k.a. Webs, member of the WarBirds training staff
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Ochlocrat
"Lawrence Nyveen" <nyv...@videotron.canada> wrote in message
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Holy CRAP.
Now THIS is why I come on this newsgroup, there's always some nut willing to
try to figure these things out.
Ochlocrat
Drew Amato
I was wondering; is this worse than realising that the numbers in
Homer3D are ASCII, and then proceeding to work out what they stand for?
Only to find out months later, on SNPP, that it's already been done.
.
And P=NP; that would make my upcoming computability exam much easier.
Alan Eliasen
By the way, in Homer3D, did anyone ever come up with a satisfactory answer
what the floating number "147" or "714" was?