ARTICHOKE

**ARTICHOKE** is the 3rd codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 3 of Hearts. The playing card reveals the coordinates for a water tower and radio tower on Jekyll Island.

Jekyll Island is known for having been the location of a secret meeting in 1910 at which the idea for the Federal Reserve was first come up with; this event has been the subject of some conspiracy theories.

"Project Artichoke" was the name of a secret CIA program researching drug-assisted interrogation, germ warfare and whether it was really possible to create Manchurian Candidate-style sleeper agents (possible link to the Utopia clips, which involve both germ warfare and sleeper agents?). It was a precursor to MKUltra.

**ARTICHOKE** is the name of a 18 minute 38 second film posted on YouTube on June 11, 2019 by Ricky Macchristen. The Trail of Tears began in 1838, which may explain this video's run time. The video is made up of six distinct segments with five different songs playing over the video.

The first segment starts on a shot of the Charleston Pyramid with the song *Jenny Artichoke* playing. As we walk away from the pyramid we walk through the Magnolia Cemetery. Eventually we switch to a shot of the Murphy Pyramid and the song ends on a shot of the Fain Peak radio towers in the background. While transitioning to the next segment we see a Cherokee depiction of a spider on a piece of pottery.

The second segment appears to be dash cam footage taken around Pack Square in Asheville, NC. The Zebulon Vance obelisk is seen while the song *Promenade* by U2 plays.

The third segment transitions to a video showing a display board of the Cherokee syllabary from the Cherokee Museum in Cherokee, North Carolina. The characters light up in sequence. Over the segment is playing the song 1.66666 by Takako Minekawa.

Some characters light up singly, other in pairs. The time that each character lights up also varies. The sequence of characters repeats 1 and a half times. The transcription of the syllables shown is: ᏃᏮ Ꮚ ᎣᏚ ᎮᏂ ᏉᏱ ᎼᎽ ᏐᏘ ᏩᏒ Ꭺ ᏬᏢ ᎾᎺᎻ Ꮦ ᏤᎫ ᏯᏮ Ꭷ Ꮪ ᏙᏂ Ꮙ ᎼᎽ Ꮨ ᏅᏒ Ꮡ ᎯᏄ ᏬᏨ Ꮎ Ꮦ ᏤᎸᎾᎹ Ꮿ ᎧᏟ Ꮛ ᏙᏪ Ꭿ Ꮟ Ꭶ ᏅᏡ ᏑᏀᏁ Ꮔ ᏨᏳ Ꮝ Ꮤ ᎸᎹᎾᏰ Ꭽ ᏟᎱ Ꮛ ᏪᏥ ᎯᏴ ᏏᏗ ᎦᎩ ᏡᎶ ᏀᏁᏕ Ꮶ Ᏻ ᏍᏛ ᏔᏣ Ᏸ Ꭽ Ꮗ ᎱᏲ Ꮷ Ꮵ ᏴᏈ ᏗᏠ ᎩᏭ Ꮆ ᏕᏆ ᏦᎴᎵ Ꭱ ᏛᏝ Ꮳ Ꮻ ᏇᎬ ᏲᏃ ᏧᏊ Ꭳ ᏈᎮ Ꮰ ᏭᏱ Ꮠ ᏆᏩ ᎴᎵ Ꭱ ᏝᏢ ᎺᎻ Ꮻ ᎬᎫ

In the Latin alphabet: nowv quu odu heni quoyi momu soti wasv go wotlv namemi te tsegu yawv ka du doni quo momu ti nvsv su hinu wotsv na te tselvnama ya katli quv dowe hi si ga nvtlu sunahne nu tsvyu s ta lvmanaye ha tlihu quv wetsi hiyv sidi gagi tlulo nahnede tso yu sdv tatsa ye ha que huyo tsu tsi yvqui ditlo giwu lo dequa tsoleli e dvtla tsa wi quegv yono tsuquu o quihe tlo wuyi so quawa leli e tlatlv memi wi gvgu

The syllables do not spell out any Tsalagi words.

Only 70 of the 85 glyphs in the Cherokee syllabary are used, in addition, every glyph is used twice in the sequence, except for the glyphs Ꮎ, Ꭿ, and Ꭺ, which are used 4, 3, and 1 time respectively. The 15 characters not used are: ᎠᎢᎤᎥᎨᎰᎲᎳᎷᎿᏌᏎᏓᏜᏞ.

The fourth segment shows the Bat Creek Stone, in a series of closeup photographs. This artifact, believed to be a hoax, is housed in the Cherokee Museum. The beginning of the song *Heart of Art* by Hope for Agoldensummer plays, but stops before the singing portion of the song starts. Even though the lyrics of this song are not heard, it is easily one of the most important, in terms of lyric interpretation.

The fifth segment shows someone walking around the Masonic Marker located near Maggie Valley, North Carolina. The video is framed to focus on a large hole in the back of the monument before returning to the front and zooming in on the large G that is atop the monument. The audio seems like it might be from the original video, but is in fact part of the final song in the video, *Artichoke* by Cibo Matto.

The sixth and final segment shows someone walking the entire length of the Tunnel to Nowhere, at the end it fades in to a shot of a Spearfinger mask, which is also located at the Cherokee Museum. The song *Artichoke* continues to play from the previous segment, though the start of the segment is timed to start with the actual musical portion of the track.