The Hidden Prophecy: Part V

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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

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Two orphans joined soul to soul.
The third had made them whole.
Now no one can console.

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The story ends.
You wake up in your bed
And believe whatever you want to believe.

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cradling,
finding, kissing,
colliding, reaching, remembering

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You may pierce the earth for the grail.
Exhume illusions from the unyielding shale.
But as true as the yellow sun's rising, you will always fail.

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[ -l ] [ -n ] [ -q ] [ -t 04272004 [ 05 ] ]

Translation

The amazing Overlord of KryptonSite has deciphered the jumble. KSite's madCoder has posted a good explanation as to the math behind the decryption here. Interestingly (and frustratingly!), the encryption involves that mysterious 28476 that's appeared THREE TIMES now (once in plain sight and hidden twice). Decoded, the jumbled passage reads as follows:

Snowflake #914071
Love can help me know my name
Pete Liz Seymour Alice Wendel Haley Chloe Delia
Can I answer that in about five years

To our future--

Let's do it, let's really do it
Somehow I don't see you trading in your flannel for flip-flops
Premature combustion
You have no idea how much I've been protecting you
I plan on leaving a different kind of legacy
We didn't find him; he found us
Snowflake #938617.

One important thing about this paragraph is that it looks like we have two more Snowflakes: Snowflake #938617 and Snowflake #914071. So, now, we have a whole slew of numbers that have appeared in this Hidden Prophecy: 28476 (Part I), 434690 (Part II), 852501 (Part III), 881885 (Part IV), a hidden 28476 (Part IV), and now 938617, 914071, and another hidden 28476 (Part V). Take a look at the solved snowflakes mystery, available here.

Interpretation

For convenience's sake, I've moved all of the jumbled paragraphs to the end of the Prophecy, separating them from the non-encrypted portions.

Two orphans joined soul to soul.
The third had made them whole.
Now no one can console.

The orphans of "Smallville" are Clark (not that Jonathan and Martha don't do an absolutely bang-up job as adoptive parents!) and Lana (remember? Her parents got squished by a meteor during the meteor shower? You never heard about that? Well, that's probably because she only mentioned it once in passing, not repeatedly until viewers wanted to gouge her eyes out with a rusty Q-tip...!). The third is Evan, the rapidly-aging Freak of the Week from "Ageless." Evan somehow made Lana feel like she had a purpose (no, hon, you DON'T!) and a reason for being or something like that. And Clark liked the kid too. But he essploded, and no one could console Clark and Lana. Except they were over it by the time "Forever" rolled around, so hmm.

The story ends.
You wake up in your bed
And believe whatever you want to believe.

Any good fan of The Matrix recognizes that this is what Morpheus says will happen to Neo if he chooses the blue pill. Other references to The Matrix Trilogy are in Part V and Part VI of the Hidden Prophecy.

cradling,
finding, kissing,
colliding, reaching, remembering

In Part III, similar words appeared... if you put them on top of each other in the order in which they appeared, you can see the symmetry:

reaching, kissing, colliding
finding, cradling,
forgetting

cradling,
finding, kissing,
colliding, reaching, remembering

So, the only word that's different (besides the order of the words) between the two mini-poems, if you could call them that, is the word forgetting appearing in Part III's poem being changed to remembering in Part V. Also... It looks like an "Hourglass," hee.

You may pierce the earth for the grail.
Exhume illusions from the unyielding shale.
But as true as the yellow sun's rising, you will always fail.

The spaceship that landed in "Commencement" pierced the earth. The contents of this ship, which appears to be made of a material similar to shale, presented two illusions to test Earth's inhabitants. However, these invaders weren't able to withstand Clark, who gets his powers from Earth's yellow sun. Also, Clark gave up his powers in "Arrival" by not returning to Jor-El by sunset...

Snowflake# 914071

Come view the mystery of the snowflakes.

Love can help me know my name

KSite's babaojay points out that these are lyrics from Seal's "Love's Divine," a song played in the episode "Legacy" during what KSite's Hiptobesquare calls

[T]he most disgusting angst-y Clana in the history of the world.

To which KSite's Arista 07 reacted by saying,

How utterly grotesque... I refuse to take this as a sign. I REFUSE!

The opinions you've just read do not represent the views of Shirkie or of SESPS. Except, well, they do. Hee! Sorry, Lana! Except, well, not really!

Pete Liz Seymour Alice Wendel Haley Chloe Delia

There are eight names here. Wendel, Haley, Chloe, and Delia were all captured and "collected" by the Freak of the Week in "Forever." Pete is, well, Pete-- gone, but not forgotten. As for Liz, Seymour, and Alice, I'm not sure. Seymour might be a nod to Jane Seymour, whose character (Genevieve) was murdered in "Commencement" by Isobel.

Can I answer that in about five years

Clark said this in "Pilot" when Jonathan asked him if he was okay.

To our future--

This is probably upcoming dialogue.

Let's do it, let's really do it

I hope the "it" isn't THE "it"...

Somehow I don't see you trading in your flannel for flip-flops

In "Blank," Clark told Chloe he was considering going to the University of Miami (which, interestingly, is where Arthur "A.C." Curry ("Aqua") went to school before going into hiding), Chloe's response to the news was this snarky line.

Premature combustion

Amnesiac Clark saw Lana in the Talon and eyejaculates (Omar, I love you!), setting a lamp on fire. A disgusted Chloe put out the fire and said something like, "Premature combustion... That's one ability I didn't need to know about!"

You have no idea how much I've been protecting you

Jason and Lana had a big fight in "Blank," and Jason yelled this at Lana. Genevieve also said a variation of this line about Lana to Jason in "Forever" (something along the lines of "She has no idea how much you've been protecting her...").

I plan on leaving a different kind of legacy

Lex said this to Clark in "Ageless" when they were talking about fatherhood. Lex told Clark he thinks Clark will be a good father, and Clark said the same about Lex. However, Lex disagreed and said he plans on leaving a different kind of legacy. And then they moved to Vermont, formed a civil union, and adopted a lovechild. HoYAY!

We didn't find him; he found us

Ahhh, Mama Kent. After finding li'l Clarkie in the cornfield after the meteor shower, Jonathan wanted to turn him in. How would he and Martha explain a new baby? "We found him in a cornfield?" Martha, ever the font of wisdom, replied dramatically... "We didn't find him; he found us!" I love that part of "Pilot." <*sniff*> This general idea iswas repeated in "Ageless," except Evan was the foundling and Clark and Lana were the doting "parents."

Snowflake #938617.

Come view the explanation behind the snowflakes!

[ -l ] [ -n ] [ -q ] [ -t 04272004 [ 05 ] ]

This was FINALLY solved by JPMiller over at Rich's World. A lot of us had figured those strange bracketed letters were computer code, and everyone figured out that 04/27/05 was the airdate for "Blank." Apparently, it's a reboot command in some sort of UNIX manual.

The generic command to cause a reboot at a given time would be [ -l ][ -n ][ -q ] [ -t mmddHHMM [ yr ] ] where mm, dd, HH, MM, and yr (optional; it's only necessary if the reboot won't take place the year the code is written) are the two-digit forms of month, day, hour and minute (in 24-hour time), and year, respectively.

Therefore, when Ezra wrote this cryptic passage, he was really typing UNIX code... He predicted Clark's memory would be rebooted at

-t 04272004 [ 05 ] ]
or
April 27, 2005 at 20:04 / 8:04P.M.

This was exactly when Clark's memory was erased at the Talon by the sexy FotW Kevin. JPMiller's full theory-- "The Kal-El Reboot"-- is available at Rich's World.

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