The Hidden Prophecy: Part III

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Additions to the Hidden Prophecy keep appearing, so I have split the Prophecy into sections as they appeared at the Ezra Small House and Museum. Interpretations and translations are available for each on their respective pages.

The Prophecy

reaching, kissing, colliding
finding, cradling,
forgetting

She's got a pretty smile.
It covers up
The poison that she hides.

Though the truth be unkind,
The hateful sons will soon find
The branches above them intertwined.

Don't tell me what I did wrong.
This time it'll be different.
Tabula rasa.

The answer rests above the fray,
Veiled in satin, spirited away
By the one in disarray.

The green rooster
Shall lead you to enlightenment,
But the answers are sewn more deeply.

We're clear.
We're not responsible.
We're uninvolved.

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.

Oo bu sl is us sh.
Oa us lb di pg oa ss sy eo su st th hi en sk t.
On no et so om fa kt no oe ws l.

Et du gr ea.
Ms ah lo ih.
Ay mo.

Us kn no ow wf nl oa tk we h# a8 t5 y2 o5 u0 s1 e.
Ey ko.
Uo mn ul sy tt wh re im to es yt os ut re oa wd nf da es st to if ns y

Translation

Take every other letter of the jumbled portion, all the way to the end, then tack on the remaining letters. This message is revealed:

Obsius. As big as you think. No tomatoes. Turamali. You know not what you seek. Only the most steadfast of souls should possess the stones of knowledge. Shoham. Snowflake #852501. You must write your own destiny.

How mysterious!

Interpretation

reaching, kissing, colliding
finding, cradling,
forgetting

Hmm. I'm absolutely puzzled about what this could mean. Simply stumped. A mirror reflection of this appears in Part V.

She's got a pretty smile.
It covers up
The poison that she hides.

KSite's Arista 07 pointed out that these are lyrics from Lifehouse's "Only One." She guesses that this song will be played during "Spirit," the Prom episode, and refers to Dawn, the Freak of the Week. However, this could possibly refer to Scabby Abby, the Freak of the Week from "Facade." Her pretty smile, given to her by mommy dearest's kryptonite-fueled plastic surgery, hid her ability to make others hallucinate.

Though the truth be unkind,
The hateful sons will soon find
The branches above them intertwined.

I'm thinking of three possible "hateful sons" on Smallville: Lex, Clark, and Jason. Lex definitely hates Lionel, Clark sort of hates Jor-El, and Jason hates his mother. Two of these three (I'm guessing either Lex and Clark or Lex and Jason) will soon discover the branches of their family tree are intertwined.

Don't tell me what I did wrong.
This time it'll be different.
Tabula rasa.

In "Blank," amnesiac Clark asked Lana why their relationship ended. After exchanging moony glances, Clark changed his mind and said something along the lines of, "Don't tell me... I don't want to know. This time it'll be different." As any good student who's taken Psychology 100 knows, tabula rasa means "blank slate," and variations of this phrase (like "clean slate") were repeated throughout "Blank."

The answer rests above the fray,
Veiled in satin, spirited away
By the one in disarray.

This is the third Crystal, "spirited away" by Jason in Isobel's red silk handkerchief. Jason showed Lana that he had secretly obtained it, and then Lana staged a robbery of her apartment so she could hide it for herself. She is "the one in disarray" who held onto it until she gave it to Clark in "Commencement."

The green rooster
Shall lead you to enlightenment,
But the answers are sewn more deeply.

Clark and Lana went to a bar called The Green Rooster to get information when they went to China. This is how they met their guide (who died shortly after, showing just how toxic being friends with these two apparently is). The answers, namely the location of the Crystal in China, were "sewn more deeply" into the magical t-shirt guarded by kryptonite inside the temple. I smiled, nodded, and attempted to pretend I knew what was going on with all this. See The Crystals and the Map. On a side note, I notice there's now a rooster (hen? I don't know farm birds) on the banner of the newly-revamped Smallville Ledger. The damn thing clucks at you, and if you try to click on it, it rather humorously lays and egg and then kicks it away. It's not green though, and its incessant clucking won't lead you to enlightenment!

We're clear.
We're not responsible.
We're uninvolved.

In the WB/Verizon "GetLex" promotion that's going on, you can have "Lex's emails" sent to your phone. A couple of emails, the most recent sent after "Sacred" aired, read as follows:

To: Lex
From: Webb
RE: Apt. Break-in

MSG 1 of 2

We did not search Ms. Lang's apartment as you asked.

MSG 2 of 2

Checked for leaks. We're clear. We're not responsible. We're uninvolved.

So Lex considered breaking into Lana's apartment... but didn't. "Sacred" reveals that Lana staged the break-in so she could act like the Stone she acquired from Jason after the expedition to China had been stolen and she and Jason could get back to "normal." Sorry, Lana, but when you've been branded with a mystical tattoo and possessed (on more than one occasion!) by a dead 17th-century ancestor with superpowers who happened to be a witch and was burned at the stake and has a grudge against everyone descended from your ancestor's nemesis, who just happens to be your schmoopie Jason Teague, and it turns out you and your boyfriend didn't meet by accident but were actually set up by Jason's mother, who's the spitting image of the lady who helped burn your ancestor at the stake....... "Normal" is the last thing you're going to be. Not that you were ever "normal," Miss "I-like-sleeping-on-the-graves-of-my-parents-who-by-the-way-were-smooshed-by-a-meteor-when-I-was-three-and-that's-just-the-beginning-of-my-sad-tale-of-abandonment."

I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.

This is an excerpt of T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." In "Unsafe," Chloe found Lana ditching class and asked her if she couldn't stand to hear "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The poem is about a moment of realization of failing and loss. You can read the poem in its entirety here. Here are what I think are some interesting portions, with my particular favorite bits in red:

S`io credesse che mia risposta fosse
A persona che mai tornasse al mondo,
Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse.
Ma perciocche giammai di questo fondo
Non torno vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero,
Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
[This is Italian; it's from Dante's Inferno and translates to
If I believed that my answer would be
To someone who would ever return to earth,
This flame would move no more,
But because no one from this gulf
Has ever returned alive, if what I hear is true,
I can reply with no fear of infamy.]

Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table...

Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question...

There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate...

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head [grown slightly bald] brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid...

Would it have been worth while,
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,
To have squeezed the universe into a ball
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,
To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all..."

Obsius.

I looked this one up in a dictionary. Apparently, this is a reference to the stone obsidian. The word comes from new Latin obsidianus, from Latin obsidianis lapis, false manuscript reading for obsianus lapis, literally stone of Obsius, from Obsius, its supposed discoverer. Obsidian is a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava. Kind of looks like the material of which the spaceship in "Commencement" was made...

As big as you think. No tomatoes.

I assumed this was a hint that this plotline with the Stones is really as big as we think... And the writers were asking us not to throw tomatoes at them (yet)! J However, the "no tomatoes" phrase is what the naughty loan shark guy in "Lucy" said (about Lucy's sandwich) that tipped Lois off to the fact that their kidnapping was a sham and Lucy was just scamming Lex.

Turamali.

First, I thought this was referring to the country of Mali and started looking around for a place named Tura. Then, I realized how much it sounded like a rock from my childhood rock collection-- tourmaline. Sure enough, this is the reference. Apparently, tourmaline gets its name from the Singhalese name turamali, which means "colored stone."

You know not what you seek.

Even though Clark, Lex, Jason, Lana, and Genevieve seek the Crystals, none of them really knows what these Stones do or what they will unlock.

Only the most steadfast of souls should possess the Stones.

Clark, get your rear in gear and find those Stones!

Shoham.

I thought this would be some kind of stone or rock because of obsius and turamali, but it's not. It's a Hebrew word, and I've Googled it only to find it's a common last name and a town in Israel that's between Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv. Interestingly, if you look at the official webpage for the town of Shoham, you can see what is called "The Hug Sculpture."

This sculpture looks a heck of a lot like the glyph of Naman and Sageeth in the Kawatche Caves. Also, don't forget that one of Season 1's episodes was named "Hug."

Snowflake #852501.

Snowflake #881885 appears in Part IV. KSite's Arista07 explains an interesting find she made regarding the mysterious Snowflake numbers.

I've been trying to figure out all four of the numbers foretold in the Prophecies for a while. What stands out about these two is the "tag" on them (snowflake.) The tag is followed by the "#" sign, which is usually used in idenitifcation serials, codes. So I Googled the numbers as is. Turns out, both #852501 and #881885 are gene ID's. The gene name of the first is CDC47 and the second is a provisional binding enzyme, P. (#881885 is also a compound ID, so I'm not positive wheteher it should be identified as a gene or compound) However, I'm nearly positive the ESP are referring to the gene.

Most importantly, CDC47 is used in DNA replication. (Here's to cloning!) I would list more information, but I honestly wouldn't know what the hell I'm talking about.

Very interesting! And according to KSite's Renee28, there's an embryo adoption program called Snowflake... Hhhhhmmmmmmm...! However, I have unlocked the mystery of the Snowflakes.

You must write your own destiny.

This is in Dr. Swann's letter to Clark, given to him after Swann passed away ("Krypto").

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