Journey Darkness (ᛦᚠᛁᚱᚠᛁᚱᚦᛅᚱᛁᛚᚱ)

*Journey Darkness (ᛦᚠᛁᚱᚠᛁᚱᚦᛅᚱᛁᛚᚱ)* is the eighteenth public video to be uploaded to the Komplot Group Band's YouTube channel.

## Journey Darkness (ᛦᚠᛁᚱᚠᛁᚱᚦᛅᚱᛁᛚᚱ)

### Link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1jhB0IZvDA

### Description

ᚴᛅᚠᚢᛘᚢᚾᚱᚠᛅᚱᚢᚾᛅᚢᛏᚱ

ᚠᛁᛅᛚᛘᛁᚾᛁ

ᚢᛁᚴᚱ

ᛋᛅᛏ

ᛁᛅ

### Tags

kgb, crossroad, paths, deep, water, patience

## Transcription

[0:00]: Picture 1

[0:08-0:30]: Video 1: A vineyard next to a dirt road. A mountain is seen in the distance.

[4:00]: End.

## Details

The video’s title is written in runic and spells out ýfir ferð er illr in Old Norse which translates to, “[There] is evil on [the] journey".

*Journey Darkness (ᛦᚠᛁᚱᚠᛁᚱᚦᛅᚱᛁᛚᚱ)* is the second video on the KGB channel to feature runes, the first being *Almannavegr* which translates literally to “Main Road”.

The runes in the description translate to:

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ᚴᛅᚠᚢᛘᚢᚾᚱ - kafumunr = kafamunr = maybe be understood as "deep minded" or maybe "deep thought". Kafa- usually denotes something like "subsurface".

ᚠᛅᚱᚢᚾᛅᚢᛏᚱ = farunautr = förunautr = (travelling) companion.

ᚠᛁᛅᛚᛘᛁᚾᛁ = fialmini = fjölmenni = a group of men/people or "Fjallminni'', "Mountain memory". *Almannavegr* had a video shot of a snowy mountain. So *Journey Darkness* is a "mountain memory" and this video could be a direct reference to it.

ᚢᛁᚴᚱ = uikr = battle? Could have other meanings.

ᛋᛅᛏ = sat = again these short word are difficult when not appearing in a sentence. Could mean ambush, or sat as in the past inflection of "to sit", and probably other possible meanings.

ᛁᛅ = ia = já (meaning "yes")?

## Theories

Kafamunr would relate to the tag, “deep” as in something that lies below the surface. This could be a reference to *Archives*, whose logo is an iceberg. It could also relate to *Call of the Trench* which shares the “deep” tag with *Journey Darkness (ᛦᚠᛁᚱᚠᛁᚱᚦᛅᚱᛁᛚᚱ)* and uses the tag “submerge”.

Farunautr suggests there is a guide, or a companion who can guide individuals along the road. Farunautr might be foreshadowing the *Nine Paths* in that in the description of the *Nine Paths* video it reads, “Those who walk the paths may meet a pilgrim.”, along with the video tags, “journey, walking the paths, the seeker, pilgrim was walking solitarily by himself, it's time to meet, may the road rise to meet you, paths, roads”. Using Fjolmenni instead of Fjallminni might reinforce this.

Fjallminni is a callback to *Almannevegr* and possibly any video that makes use of the “mountain” theme. *IANVS* for instance has a video of a group hiking up the side of a mountain in what looks to be a region of China. *Archives* also has a video taken from the base of a mountain looking up with *Almannavegr* showing a shot of a frozen wilderness landscape with snowy mountains in the background.

Uikr literally means battle, but could also mean danger or peril.

Sat is literally the past tense of the word “sit”, but it also refers to “sitia” which means “sitting”. Searching up ᚢᛁᚴᚱ reveals a forum talking of the Old Norse poem *Hávamál* in which the first section, *Gestaþáttr*, concerns a set of maxims for how to handle oneself when a guest and traveling, focusing particularly on manners and other behavioural relationships between hosts and guests and the sacred lore of reciprocity and hospitality to the Norse pagans. - *Hávamál*.

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***Gestaþáttr***

> "Gattir allar, aþr gangi fram, vm scoðaz scyli, vm scygnaz scyli; þviat ouist er at vita, hvar ovinir sitia
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> a fleti fyr."
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> All the entrances, before you walk forward,
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> you should look at,
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> you should spy out;
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> for you can't know for certain where enemies are sitting, ahead in the hall.
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> Number 77 is possibly the most known section of *Gestaþáttr*:
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> "Deyr fę,
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> deyia frǫndr,
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> deyr sialfr it sama;
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> ec veit einn
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> at aldri deýr: domr vm dꜹþan hvern."
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> Cattle die,
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> friends die,
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> and the same with you;
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> but I know of something that never dies and that's a dead person's deeds."
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Within this it is possible the *Journey Darkness (ᛦᚠᛁᚱᚠᛁᚱᚦᛅᚱᛁᛚᚱ)* are a form of sage advice, a form of guide, going forward. While this could be simply life or spiritual advice, “All the entrances, before you walk forward, you should look at, you should spy out” can be used literally within the context of the puzzles as a message telling solvers to “**look at the entrances**”.

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Interestingly, passages from *Hávamál* were posted to the 961 8kun thread back when *The Page of £* was still being solved. The same passage seen in *Journey Darkness (ᛦᚠᛁᚱᚠᛁᚱᚦᛅᚱᛁᛚᚱ)* and on the 961 thread were posted to a Silent Moth thread on 8kun surrounding the events of the /club.

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***Ljóðatal***

> "Lioþ ec þꜹ kann,
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> er kannat þioðans kóna oc mannzcis mꜹgr"
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> The songs I know
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> that king's wives know not Nor men that are sons of men.
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The *Ljóðatal* enumerates eighteen songs sometimes called "charms", prefaced with (stanza 147). The songs themselves are not given, just their application or effect described. They are explicitly counted from "the first" in stanza 147, and "a second" to "an eighteenth" in stanzas 148 to 165, given in Roman numerals in the manuscript. There is no explicit mention of runes or runic magic in the *Ljóðatal* excepting in the twelfth song (stanza 158):

> "sva ec rist oc i rv́nom fác"
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> So do I write and color the runes
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Nevertheless, because of the *Rúnatal* preceding in the poem, some reinterpret the *Ljóðatal* as referring to runes, specifically with the 16 letters of the Younger Futhark. The difference of sixteen runes of the Younger Futhark vs. eighteen charms in the *Ljóðatal* has notably motivated proponents of Germanic mysticism to expand the row by two extra runes. The best-known attempt of this are the Armanen runes by Guido von List.

These Armanen runes are quite possibly the exact runes being referenced in the Jormungandr tab in the Omega gate.

## Gallery

Picture 1: A vineyard or tomato field.Picture 2: The cameraman pans to the right.Picture 3: A mountain is seen in the distance.Picture 4: Same as picture 3.Picture 5: The cameraman keeps panning to the right, showing more of the dirt road and foliage.Picture 6: The camera pans to the ground.A processed image of Journey Darkness' logo. Interestingly it has a hidden component.