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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4042308" data-attributes="member: 32740">*[spoiler]One twelfth, a day.  One ninth, a world undersea.  The first twelve indivisible.  Here lies the pathway to...[/spoiler]*Assuming this is the correct translation of the symbols my initial thinking takes me to[spoiler] the names of the days, months, astrological signs, and the planets.  The twelve months of the year in the modern calendar are given names of Roman origin.  The days of the weeks are largely Norse in origin (Tyr, Wodin, Thor, Freya = Teusday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) except for Saturday/Saturn which would also be Roman.  And of course the X is near to Italy so...The mention of the planets got me then thinking that a number of (what used to be 9)planets are also named after Roman gods - Saturn obviously, Jupiter, Pluto (god of the underworld=Hollow Earth?) and of course Neptune - god of the sea.I suggest then that this could mean that on a Saturday, when one of those planets (probably Neptune) is in a particular position in the sky the world undersea will be revealed/made accessible/whatever.  It could possibly still be Saturn (and a few of Saturns moons have names of oceanic origin/connection though they are Greek and not Roman).Edit - The most clever possibility would be that it is the date upon which Pluto (god of the underworld) crosses the orbit of Neptune (god of the sea).I can't really figure what "twelve indivisible" is suggesting though.[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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