So I was listening to the podcast for Lost. I don’t have a link, but found it through iTunes and ABC probably has a link to it as well. The first half of the podcast is always inane interviews with the actors. I can’t get interested in it, really.

But the second part always has the producers talking about the twists of the show and their plans for it, either in the future or past tense. So I like that part of it.

In this week’s podcast someone wrote in wondering why http://www.thehansofoundation.org was down. The producers went with and had a fine old time with it. But I had never heard of The Hanso Foundation on the show. Hmmm… ok, now I understand where it came from. Believe it or not, there’s a wikipedia entry for it. I went and looked it up and now it makes sense. They’re the ones who funded The Dahrma Initiative.

Anyway, I put in a slightly different URL http://hansofoundation.org and wound up a the ABC forums for Lost. Which is fine and not really interesting all by itself. I perused some entries. And then I noticed that my URL had changed to: http://www.4815162342.com

Those are those crazy numbers that were printed on the hatch and that won Hurley his millions. Curious, I delved deeper!

Someone mentioned a website called http://www.dharmainitiative.com/. I went there and it looked like kind of an interested dead-end — a one-page website put there as kind of a cool add-on to the show to make it look real. There are clues to the nature of The Dahrma Initiative in the images that rotate in the center of the octogon. I thought that was kind of neat.

BUT, the text was so small I pressed CTRL-A to highlight everything. I find that often makes small text more legible. But when I did that it highlighted some text above the red box. The text was:

“hEv az andAslUt iftlEplezlais kek anpAtpyaup, ek iftEgtOg adpad astlaup”

“Hmm… this looks just like gibberish!” says I.

I copied it and went to http://www.rot13.com. Rot13 used to be a common encryption algorithm that shifts all the letters in the alphabet 13 characters. I put this in there and got…

More gibberish.

Being a basically lazy person, I went to google and found only one page with all of this text on it.

It explained that there was an “a priori” language invented by a guy named Charles Elam. They said “It looks like an explosion in a typesetting shop: upper and lower case vowel letters represent different sounds, and ‘Q’ is a vowel.” That mess of gibberish was an example of his language called Oz.

hEv az andAslUt iftlEplezlais kek anpAtpyaup, ek iftEgtOg adpad astlaup.
Because the wicked do not recieve their just deserts immediately,
they grow bold in transgression.

So this quote is posted over the symbol for the Dharma Initiative.

What’s the point of all this? The producers also said that during the summer, when there are no new episodes, their medium will shift to the web where more stories will be told.

Now I want to follow this trail of breadcrumbs and see where they lead.

Who’s with me?

The next step is to track down the meaning of the hieroglyphics. I also noted, that someone has to press that button ever 108 minutes. This is the square of 9. What does 9 have to do with anything?

Dunno.

Tags: Uncategorized //