Tuesday 25 August 2015

Session 7: 7th November 2014. A linguistic puzzle.


No notes were made for session 6, which took place at Barbican.

Session 7.
Present: DI, NM, JM
We used Greek letters for ouija, to see what sort of results that would generate.
We also spent quite a bit of time asking Vax to tell our fortunes using the (near) full set of fortune telling cards. We also did some spirit drawing, using felt tipped pens and blindfolds. The first drawing looked a bit like some sort of animal, once a nose and eyes were added. The second looked more like a scribble, but you could still add bits to it.

Here follows the transcript of the greek letters Vax (or other spirit) shared with us.


Transcript
Mu
Omiga
Kappa
Psi
Xii
Beta
Alpha
Kappa
Omega
Nu
Chi
Lambda

JM: Are we talking to Vax? Alpha if yes, Mu if no.
JM: Are you  Greek? Alpha if yes, Mu if no.
Mu
JM: No, you aren’t Greek. Are you Russian?
(further chit chat)

Psi
Theta
Psi
Rho
Eta
Kappa
Tau
Lambda
Zeta
Nu
Lambda
Tau
Mu
Upsilon
Mu
Psi
Kappa
Lambda
Chi
Phi
Eta
Omicron
Epsilon
Pi
Epsilon
Pi
(Repeat of Epsilon, Pi)

Interpretation
I turn now to a handy website for translating the symbols from Greek to the English equivalent. So, for the first set, we have:


Mu  m
Omega o
Kappa k
Psi ps
Xi x
Beta b
Alpha a
Kappa k
Omega o
Nu  n
Chi  ch
Lambda  l

So, we have
mokpsxbakonchi

Which sounds like gobbledegook in both English and Greek.
Breaking it up a bit:
Konchi is a hindu slang word used by the people of Fiji for ‘what’ (according to urban dictionary.com)
Thanks again to urbandictionary.com, a ‘Mok’ is a “person with an exceptionally large penis”. Mok is also a “German rapper of Turkish descent”, and there’s a Mok language, a “palaungic language of China and Thailand”
That leaves  psx, which is another name for a flavour of playstation.
Make of all that what you will.

OR
MOKP - Google suggests “The Missouri Kidney Program is a state funded organization designed to help meet the needs of Kidney patients in the state of Missouri through education,”
MOKPS is a user identity at Roblox, an internet site for gaming.
BAKONCHI is a word in Hausa (a language I’ve never heard of) and means “the service done to a stranger” (ie hospitality)

Well none of that makes much sense to me. Over to you.

The second set:

Psi  ps
Theta th
Psi ps
Rho  r
Eta h
Kappa  k
Tau t
Lambda l
Zeta z
Nu n
Lambda l
Tau t
Mu m
Upsilon u
Mu m
Psi ps
Kappa k
Lambda l
Chi ch
Phi ph
Eta h
Omicron o
Epsilon e
Pi p
Epsilon e
Pi p

Taking the repeated Epsilon Pi sequence first, ‘epsilon pi’ is an American fraternity.
EPEPEP. Or PEPE PEPEPE. The last (pepepe) returns, in you tube, lots of music videos, all of which look horrible, even with no volume.

Of the main set, we have
psthpsrhktlznltmumpsklchphhoe
In the middle of that there’s a ‘mumps’ and precious little else.  A google search of the entire sequence returns, unsuprisingly, no matches. Over to anyone else who wants to have a go.





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