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Post by Moe on Jan 1, 2021 10:24:16 GMT -5
Thanks, Candace, this is an excellent resource:)
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Post by Riene on Jan 3, 2021 13:52:17 GMT -5
I vaguely remember Enyamusic.com and AigleMusic.com, from 'way back in the day.
The Trio seems to have really retreated from the digital world in aspects in the last few years. Of course, if they don't plan to ever release another album, why should they go to the time, expense, and effort of keeping anything active? If they DO ever plan to make a comeback, then a digital presence is almost a must anymore.
I wonder who owns these sites now, or anything with the words Enya and Aigle in them. It's a lot less expensive to pay to retain a domain name than to have to wrestle a name out of the hands of someone who's purchased it on speculation.
Good detective work, Candace!
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Post by alrik on Jan 3, 2021 17:03:51 GMT -5
I vaguely remember Enyamusic.com and AigleMusic.com, from 'way back in the day. I remember that as well.
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Post by Riene on Jan 4, 2021 11:21:06 GMT -5
Do NOT go look at Enya-online.com. It appears to be an Asian porn site, and no doubt will infect your computer with who-knows-what.
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Post by Moe on Jan 5, 2021 13:27:06 GMT -5
Do NOT go look at Enya-online.com. It appears to be an Asian porn site, and no doubt will infect you computer with who-know-what. Thanks for the warning!
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Post by RichardF on Jan 6, 2021 0:49:05 GMT -5
Do NOT go look at Enya-online.com. It appears to be an Asian porn site, and no doubt will infect you computer with who-know-what. Thanks for the warning! I'm assuming apart from being a porn site, it also has no connection to Enya !
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Post by alrik on Jan 25, 2021 14:00:03 GMT -5
But its name tells us a lot about how popular Enya is ! So popular, at least, that this name was used as bait !
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Post by jens on Feb 25, 2021 12:08:02 GMT -5
Hehe..got all three items from 2010 from that store...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2021 15:13:46 GMT -5
Which enya site had the snow globe? 2006? maybe... does anyone have a picture of it?
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Post by Riene on Jul 23, 2021 22:25:26 GMT -5
An even more obscure and mysterious one: Heleten.comDoes anyone remember this site, or what it was for?! The URL is alive and redirects to Unity. Older captures on archive.org show a Flash plug-in that is no longer visible, here's August 2015: Heleten.com - August 2015
By January 2016, that URL took you to the revamped Unity log-in page: Heleten.com - January 2016A 2019 capture shows the Unity farewell messages: Heleten.com - June 2019Wasn't Heleten one of the websites used for the Games?
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Post by Riene on Jul 23, 2021 23:36:56 GMT -5
I remember that!
I enjoyed those Loxian Games SO much. They took every brain cell I had. I still have the notebook TreeCat sent me that I used to record all of the clues, languages, translations, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2021 8:31:59 GMT -5
Many thanks ) yes thats the one ))
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Post by alrik on Jul 24, 2021 14:39:21 GMT -5
I was just using heleten.com, and it was showing the "unity farewell" messages ... The name reminds me of the Greek figure Helena ... I can't shake the feeling as if the name is a word-game ... perhaps an anagram ? To my surprise, I just found an entry on Amazon called "Follow-haswed" : www.amazon.com/Follow-Haswed-Laura-Walker/dp/0985100729
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Post by sempiternity on Jul 25, 2021 3:27:44 GMT -5
Heleten.com was part of the second (October/November 2009) Loxian Games. You clicked on a planet shuffling about on the screen and it would stop and magnify. There would be letters in blue and red orbiting it and two numbers in yellow. There were ten different planets, for two of them all the letters were in Rainscript. The task was to figure out the two words encoded in each case. The instructions given were "heleten. yellow shows the number of the blue clue and red password. ten places to go. then ten letters to assemble." When you asked the Loxian Oracle "where is heleten" it gave a reply of "dot com".
I've tried to figure out 'heleten' itself. There is a lot of curious/funny idiosyncratic stuff and randomness in the Loxian Games, but also the Trio sneaking in things they love or made themselves. The best guess I come up with for that word is that Roma may have taken it from a Finnish poem named Kultaisia LatiΓ€ (Golden Leaves). "Alati henkevΓ€mmin heleten / syystuulen syliin lehdet varisevat,"- where it is the most difficult and poetic and crucial word in the stanza and maybe the poem, meaning something like 'gleaming, glowing, aburn, incandescent, infused with spiritual power'. ("Always animatedly gleaming / the leaves drop towards the bosom of the autumn wind,")
Btw, we've never been told who painted most of the pictures and portraits we saw in the Games. There were no evident credits given, just boilerplate copyrights to Aigle/the trio and programming credits to Lee mostly. I wouldn't be surprised if some- maybe even most- of the pictures were from Enya. Or maybe Roma and Enya. They've hidden so much in plain sight over the years, the LGs were all about toying with us in the first place...
For the second site, that has to do with the third Loxian Games. Most players who submitted an answer were sent a copy of Roma's "The Messenger's Origin", which was a book of poems with formal themes mostly related to stars/constellations and Greek mythology. (There's a subtle narrative and sensibility that spans them.) Roma decided to edit the book to include additional puzzles for readers who might not catch the subtler core of the book. On one of the last pages of the book (page 35) she put four lines in a Loxian script that decrypts to "To find the answer to the four hidden stars / follow haswed / To find the answer to the hidden constellation / follow haswed".
Several of us on Unity then of course searched the Internet for those curious terms within a few days of receiving the book and the only thing to come up was the book by Laura Walker. No website did. As best as I can recall we never came to much consensus on the full answers to the puzzles beyond the obvious. In the foreword Roma excludes the Games answers (Antares, Sagitta). Two stars obviously identified are Regulus and The Pearl (from Water Shows The Hidden Heart). The other two (maybe three) stars and the constellation are less so. I think Fomalhaut is a good fit for a third star, the one unseen in March. Candidates suggested for the fourth/fifth star which I find in my notes are Capella, Aldebaran, Eta Carinae, Sirius, Alpha Centauri, and for the constellation Aquila, Auriga, Argo, Orion, Pleiades. My best guesses are Aldebaran, Capella, and the constellation is Pleiades, but it would be nice to know. At least now we know that there was a web page planned to tell us.
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Post by Riene on Jul 25, 2021 11:33:20 GMT -5
Did we ever complete the third series of Games? My personal life was fairly busy around that point, and as I'd won a prize in an earlier Game I didn't work too hard on the latter one.
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