Well I've just parked on some reddish brown marble on the edge of the Orion Nebula that happens to be the furthest I've been out of the bubble. I'm feeling all Eddie Explorer, so I started reading about what you real explorers do while I have some down time. I'd make a joke about not telling the boss here, but it's not like I'm going to fire
myself. Combine all this lovely lore and intrigue with a recent conversation I've had with a friend of mine about how he chose his wedding date and how funny it was his fiancee didn't know the significance of the number...
But I digress. Here are a few observations and hypotheses I've made in the past short while I've been reading. Apologies if this has been explored in the 800+page anthology that makes up these 3 threads. I read the helpful summaries and didn't see anything.
We've been told to look into the etymology of Kahina's name. Being a sucker for history, I did so and found there was some dispute there. Seems that's the name that Arab historians gave her to denote her as a Jewish sorcerer. Her Jewish name was in fact Dihya or some variant of that spelling. The closest I could find that would translate to Hebrew maintaining some kind of historical or etymological connection was Dahlia or דַהלִיָה. Kahina is קאהינה. Furthermore, Salome gets you סלומה. To go even further, the roots of "a cadmean victory" can wind their way back to Hebrew. See the etymology of the man Cadmus possibly include the Semitic triliteral root of
KDM either directly signifying "east," the word qedem (קדם) "front," "east" or the verb qadam (קָדַם) "to be in front."
It seems like a coincidence, but a cop friend of mine once told me that once you see enough in life, you realize there's no such thing as coincidence. So armed with the track record of the existence and teasing of codes, multiple meanings, and characters having "twists" I searched for any information I could about our good friend Drew's affinity for Hebrew. I found something interesting on page 203 of
this document. So the MO seems to fit.
So why the bit about my friends wedding? Well it's going to be a big Jewish wedding on the 13th. Now a lot of people were confused by the "bad luck" of this date, my friend's fiancee included. Which my friend had a good laugh at because she taught Hebrew. Keen observer, good listener, and repository of random information I am, I quickly picked up on the irony here and asked my pal "So what word turns into 13 in Hebrew then?" He told me it was love (אהבה). See in Hebrew, words have numerical values. Do you see where I'm going?
In no particular order,
- Dihya/Dahlia - דַהלִיָה - 54
- Kahina - קאהינה - 171
- Salome - סלומה - 141
- qedem - קדם - 144
- qadam - קָדַם - 144
Now if we try to apply an assumption to the names; Dihya/Dahlia was a birth name, and she was given the name of Kahina by historians. Kahina Loren eventually took the name Salome. Dihya turned into Kahina who turned into Salome. 54-171-141. Could be coordinates, a vector, a direction or step in directions from a known landmark. Don't know. Could be nothing.
Qedem/qadam both have more interest to me as "east" or "front" and "to be in front" especially when we realize that could be describing the position of whatever it is we're looking for in relation to a landmark, say a nebula/ae or the rift.
Then we're on to the "daughter remembers the giraffe's hero" or whatever cryptic message from the good old Cobra transmission at Tionisla (apologies if I'm mixing this up, but I've taken in a lot over the past few hours). Could we apply either Hebrew or English Gematria to turn these words into meaningful numbers?
Does any of this line up with what you experts have seen happening so far in this mystery?
Apologies for any ignorance on my part, this may have been brought up before, it's my first day getting involved with this mystery, and I'm not a Talmudic scholar.
If one of you finds something at 54/171/141 I expect a beer or two out of the deal!
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