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Pencil annotations

this will serve as a record of all annotations in pencil in the book. click here for pen annotations

Inside Cover G.B. Vonderbanman 1838 , Flyleaf Various arrows

Title Page REDBARN and phone number (?) '284-4022'

page 18 CROSSFIRE GAMBIT

page 37 dot pattern charting menwith hill (REDBARN)

page 120 HIGHJUMP

page 136 "M" shaped graphic, "every 10 years" underlined, 20APR76

page 218 circles and underlined words

page 239 COSAFINA

page 268 drawing of la antorcha de la amistad

page 270 drawn castle, ROSA CHI

page 277 underlined words, 'polk' is written

page 338 underlined words, triangles

page 341 EVE map/drawing of stone boat, 'V' emphasized

page 366 CHOSATONGA, '2' added to page number | address for chosatonga

page 403 ARTICHOKE

page 424 "80 BROADWAY"

page 441 written symbols and number 71 (YELLOWTOE)

page 442 SMOKEMONT

page 464 LEMON, ZEBULON

page 522 and 523 IRIS, ALLGOOD, "4 bridges" underlined, slash added to page number 5/23

page 538 UNION

page 582 SPEARFINGER, NOWARE, NOLAND, arrow

page 587 BURNTBLACK, 'T' emphasized

page 609 Pack written, symbol

page 628 RUSTYKNIFE

page 666 angles and JOANA, CORONA, PORKCHOP

page 683 PORKCHOP, FAIRVIEW, EINSTEN

page 688 CORONA, sketch of tower of the Americas

page 691 MUSKET

back cover ᏔᎷᎳ - talula in tslagi (Cherokee)
Page 338

**Page 338** of the So Joana Book depicts scenes of Nicaragua. Page 336 and Page 337 and Page 341 are adjacent.

The phrase "SECOND CANAL SITE" is underlined, this might be a reference to the Augusta Canal. The letters O, S and O are underlined. Two small triangles are drawn on a photo Nicaraguan National Palace, which seem to mirror a triangle on the roof of that building.
Page 501

**Page 501** of the So Joana Book is the introduction page for "The South" segment of the book. Page 464 and Page 465 and Page 502 and Page 503 are adjacent.

Written in blue ink are a series of circles, some with X's through them: ⦻◯◯⦻◯◯⦻. These same symbols can be found elsewhere in the book.

if the circles refer to keywords in the MEDICINEDOWN blue terms list, then they would be:

ROSA BAMBINO TOCCOA

or TOCCOA BAMBINO ROSA if in ascending order

A photo of the obelisk shaped Jefferson Davis Monument at Fairview, Kentucky can be seen on the preceding page. FAIRVIEW is one of the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT words.
Notla Church Sign

The Notla Church Sign is a sign located at the third set of coordinates on Page 503 in Cherokee County, North Carolina. A photo of the sign was posted on /r/SoJoanaBook on June 12, 2019 by user /u/stuffkoan. On the sign were a couple of stickers: an eyeball and four playing cards (all aces, in the same card order as the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT list.) (done an orientation to mirror the all seeing eye and pyramid symbol.) Below the stickers were graffiti, written mostly in Cherokee.

The graffiti reads as follows:

* **ᏦᎢ ᏧᎤᏏᏱ** ("triangle", the sign is located on a small plot of land that is in the shape of a 3-4-5 triangle.)

* **Ꭶ?ᎪᎩ. ᎦᏰᎪᎩ** is liar but that's a stretch. This may be a misspelled version of 'seven' (ᎦᎵᏉᎩ)
* **ᏃᏈᏏ** ("star" there is a star drawn next to the coordinates on Page 503)

* **ᎤᎦᏐᏣᏁᏓ** ("goat")

* **ᎢᏙ ᎢᏦᏗ** ("New Echota," this is the name of the capital of the Cherokee Nation from 1825 until their forced removal in the 1830's.)
* **EXOD208** (Exodus 20:8, "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." This is one of the ten commandments and can be seen on the Ten Commandments monument at the Fields of the Wood located a short distance away in Murphy, NC)
* A **teardrop shape** and "**BB**" with an arrow or cross coming out of the top of the first B. The codeword "BEEBEE" is associated with the Fields of the Wood. The orientation of the "BB" with the first B rotated slightly, mirrors the concrete letters in the Ten Commandments.

one could interpret 'seven star goat' as referring to the sun being at the 7th degree of the sign Capricorn - this happens on 29th December each year. 29 december 1835 was the date on which the treaty of new echota was concluded. Combined with the bible quote, this may be instruction to visit new echota on that day

29th December 2019, the year the book was posted in and the year this grafitti was discovered, fell on a Sunday and there was a stellium (when planets in the sky are grouped close together) near the 7th degree of Capricorn on this date.

A thread in /r/Cherokee about the translation can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cherokee/comments/swbbq5/help\_translating\_odd\_graffiti/
Тёмный Помидор

Дриписа.Эта страница крута как Дриписа. Перед тем как ее править, подумай хорошенько.

## Тёмный Помидор

* СВСО
* Авторский

## Отношения

### Враги

* Всрато - желатин

> Бален я сам не знаю
>
> Тёмный Помидор, СВСО 3

Тёмный Помидор - это участник juan. (мужского) пола СВСО, который выполняет задания в виде анимации и находится в команде "Огненные Горохострелы".

## Факты

* Тёмный Помидор единственный с juan. полом,
	+ Автор подметил что Тёмный помидор мужского пола;
* Тёмный Помидор единственный персонаж с жёлтыми глазами и ртом;
* Помидор один из тех участников, которые может понять всё с первого раза.
Page 68

**Page 68** of the So Joana Book depicts a map of Scandanavia. Page 49 and Page 113 are adjacent.

A set of coordinates, 33°28′46½″ 81°58′18⅓″, point to a circular feature at the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in downtown Augusta, Georgia. The feature is a circle with 8 radial lines shown in white. These lines have been replicated in blue ink on the compass rose shown on this page. Two angles are noted on the compass rose with drawings for each. The "Heart Key" is at 265° which points to the compass rose at Augusta University (the location associated with ALLGOOD, ace of hearts). The "Eye Key" is at 313° which points to Brasstown Bald (the coordinates of which are found on Page 503) An eye and hand with the number 369 is depicted on the inside front cover of the book.

The Cherokee word **ᎤᏕᎵᏓ** (which translates to "secret") is written in pen at the bottom of the page. This is part of a sequence of tsalagi words over this and the 2 following sets of pages that combine to say 'secret princess died'. the word being 4 letters long may have significance

This circular feature has since been demolished to make way for the new Downtown campus of Augusta University. A new road named after pioneering computer scientist and Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper intersects this coordinate now. The word "grace" is also circled on Page 362 and Page 363.

Both ALLGOOD and Brasstown Bald are locations with large compass designs on the ground, and the puzzle to find them involved treating the circular feature as the compass on the page.
Page 582

**Page 582** of the So Joana Book depicts scenes of Ohio. Page 538 and Page 587 are adjacent.

The codeword SPEARFINGER is written vertically between two photos on the page. Below it is written the codeword NOWARE with an arrow pointing towards the first codeword. On a photo of the Great Serpent Mound is written a third codeword NOLAND.

Spearfinger is a figure in Cherokee folklore. its associated coord is a sculpture in cashiers NC.

NOWARE is associated with mile high swinging bridge, grandfather mountain NC

drawing a line between these (due to the ->), we get a line that goes almost directly over mount Mitchell, nearly touching the XENOPHON coordinate. it then goes over biltmore, near the page 237 island coordinate.
3 of Hearts

The **3 of Hearts** is a playing card first seen in the ALLGOOD film, The coordinates 31°5'55*¾*" 81°24'28*½*″ are seen on the card and lead to a water tower and radio tower on Jekyll Island, Georgia. The card corresponds to the ARTICHOKE keyword.

Sherando Lake Recreation Area, Virginia is pictured on the original playing card.
Cherokee language

The **Cherokee language and syllabary** are a central theme of the So Joana Book.

Several Cherokee words are found written in blue ink in the Book.

Cherokee graffiti was discovered to be written on a church sign in Cherokee County, North Carolina, the coordinates for the sign are found on Page 503.

A display showing the Cherokee syllabary from the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina is seen in the ARTICHOKE short film. The syllables in the display are lit up in a specific order, producing the following string of syllables: ᏃᏮᏊᎣᏚᎮᏂᏉᏱᎼᎽᏐᏘᏩᏒᎪᏬᏢᎾᎺᎻᏖᏤᎫᏯᏮᎧᏚᏙᏂᏉᎼᎽᏘᏅᏒᏑᎯᏄᏬᏨᎾᏖᏤᎸᏯᎧᏟᏋᏙᏪᎯᏏᎦᏅᏡᏑᏀᏁᏄᏨᏍᏔᎸᎹᎾᏰᎳᏟᎱᏋᏪᏥᎯᏴᏏᏗᎦᎩᏡᎶᏀᏁᏙᏦᏳᏍᏛᏔᏣᏰᎭᏇᎱᏲᏧᏥᏴᏈᏗᏠᎩᏭᎶᏕᏆᏦᎴᎵᎡᏛᏝᏣᏫᏇᎬᏲᏃ

This transliterates into the latin alphabet as: nowvquuoduheniquoyimomusotiwasvgowotlvnamemitetseguyawvkadudoniquomomutinvsvsuhinuwotsvnatetselvnamayakatliquvdowehisiganvtlusunahnenutsvyustalvmanayehatlihuquvwetsihiyvsidigagitlulonahnedetsoyusdvtatsadlatlayehaquehuyotsutsiyvquiditlogiwulodequatsoleliedvtlatsawiquegvyono

Seven unique Cherokee words are written in the So Joana Book:
**ᏔᎷᎳ** (talula), Tallulah.
(This is a repeat of the previous word, and is the only Cherokee word written in pencil.

Five Cherokee words are written on the Notla Church Sign in Cherokee County, North Carolina.
MEDICINEDOWN

**MEDICINEDOWN** is the 29th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 3 of Diamonds. It is the 3rd card of the 3rd set, another instance of 33

medicinedown.com is a website that features a photo of the Murphy Pyramid. The photo is in black & white and is in the .gif file format, the dimensions are 1838 x 1838. It is hosted on imgur.com at i.imgur.com/p37Tf5P.gif

this photo contains hidden text- switching the image to RGB color space in a program like GIMP and increasing saturation reveals two sets of keywords

On the left side of the pyramid, in dark red, four keywords are arranged in a sort of compass arrangement. There is one card per suit, and the arrangement matches the directions given to suits from the brasstown bald graffiti.

* JOANA - north, king of spades, card 26, blue
* OFELIA - west, 7 of diamonds, card 33, black
* TALULA - south, 5 clubs, card 44, white
* BEEBEE - east, 7 of hearts, card 7, red

'OFELIA' is likely a shortened version of OPHELIA

On the right side, in dark blue, a sequence of seven keywords is arranged in a vertical arrangement, with each word slightly further to the right than the last

* ROSA - Q♦ - 38
	+ WHITE ALICE - 9♣ - 48
		- JENNY - Q♠ - 25
			* BAMBINO - 6♥ - 6
				+ EVE - 5♠ - 18
					- IRIS - J♠ - 24
						* TOCCOA - 6♣ - 45

Note that 7 is a number with large symbolic significance in cherokee culture, and this continues a motif of groups of seven

in the Cherokee world creation story, the sun is raised 7 times until it no longer scorches the earth- this is likley the symbology being referenced here- why the sequence is given vertical structure structure with the starting point at the bottom

if you take both sets of terms and sort them alphabetically, then connect the dots between their coords on the map in that new order, you get an image of what looks like a large bird

TOCCOA in the blue sequence and OFELIA and JOANA in the red sequence use a much lower resolution 'font' than the other terms. ~~this likely indicates that they are the starting point for their respective keyword lists.~~

The last line from the song "Laying Down the Gun" by Hope for Agoldensummer reads: "Just like a machine, I picked up my pen and wrote this **medicine down**."

Another song by Hope for Agoldensummer from the same album, the first track on that album, Heart of Art, can be heard in the ARTICHOKE film. The name of the band itself can be tied to the codeword GOLDENSUMMER.
Page 153

***Page 153*** of the So Joana Book is about Portugal and depicts a large monument. Page 146 and Page 147 and Page 181 are adjacent.

At the bottom of the page, written in pen, is the Cherokee word **ᎠᏂᏌᎰᏂ**, (Anisahoni), which translates to "Blue Clan" or "Blue Holly Clan." A symbol is written next to the Cherokee word, it is depicted as a four spoked circle, similar to a medicine wheel symbol.

One source suggests the meaning of the symbol might symbolize "control over forces and the gravity of the earth.", but these sources are somewhat dubious. it is almost certainly some kind of medicine wheel symbol. the same source from before also refers to it as 'the 4 ages of man symbol' on another page. online sources on the topic of the symbology of indigenous american cultures are very scattershot in quality.

this is one of the few pages containing a compass that does not have annotations added
Ricky Macchristen

**Ricky Macchristen** is the name of a YouTuber associated with the So Joana Book. Their YouTube account was created on April 20, 2019, the same day the So Joana Book Scans were posted on Reddit. The Youtube page is located at: youtube.com/@rickymacchristen3302.

some comments by this channel are of note

Since April 22, 2019 nineteen videos have been posted, seven are original short films:
Tsalagi writing

This page will take note of all tsalagi writing in the book and what pages they occur

page 68 - **ᎤᏕᎵᏓ -** secret - pen

page 113 - **ᎤᎬᏫᏳᎤᏪᏥᎠᏘ** - princess / daughter of a chief - pen

page 115 - **ᎤᏲᎱᏒ** - dead/died - pen

page 153 - **ᎠᏂᏌᎰᏂ** - blue holly clan - pen

page 462 - **ᎬᏍᎦᎸ** - hidden - pen

page 695 - **ᏓᎶᏂᎨ** - golden - pen

page 766 - **ᏔᎷᎳ** - talula - pen

back cover - **ᏔᎷᎳ** - talula - pencil
Page 181

**Page 181** of the So Joana Book depicts scenes of Florence, Italy. In the caption below a photo of Boboli Gardens, the word "Gardens" is circled. Page 153 and Page 185 are adjacent. Augusta, Georgia's nickname is "The Garden City." this could also refer to the gardens around biltmore house

'gardens' may also be circled for having 7 characters. page 146 is the previous page to have anything circled, it has a 4 letter circled word.
3 of Diamonds

The **3 of Diamonds** is a playing card first seen in the ZEBULON short film. It is the first card seen in that short film. The card is subsequently seen in the ALLGOOD short film and then later in the *09132 -28* short film. It is the only card seen in all three films. The card corresponds to the MEDICINEDOWN codeword.

The card is first seen in the ZEBULON video and it is the very first card seen. The coordinates on the card read: 35°05′09.13″ 84°02′22.55″ and these coordinates point to the Murphy Pyramid. Black-Eyed Susan flowers are depicted on the card with a caption "Great Smoky Nat'l Park, TN/NC." This is also the only set of coordinates written in a decimal format. The coordinates are also written on the inside cover of the Book.

The card is also seen at the end of the "09132 -28" film depicted in a tableau featuring the card itself, a red key labelled ROSA, and a Husky branded razor knife. Superimposed over the card is an image of the 2017 Solar Eclipse and a Gold Coin from the Dahlonega mint. Black-Eyed Susans are seen at the begining of the film.

It is speculated that the position as the first card in the video is meant to mirror the coordinates position as the first in the book.
Page 505

**Page 505** of the So Joana Book depicts scenes from North Carolina. Page 502 and Page 503 and Page 506 and Page 507 are adjacent.

An eight-petal flower is drawn next to a photo of The Old Well at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The words "Old Well" are circled in the caption of the photo.

there are 7 characters in 'old well'

the flower has 8 petals and the well has 8 pillars
WORMWOOD

**WORMWOOD** is the 49th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 10 of Clubs.

It is a radio tower in Oak Ridge, TN, near a rail yard.

It is due north from EINSTEIN.

Wormwood is a star or angel which appears in the Book of Revelation.

Due to the Russian word for Artemisia vulgaris being chernobyl many have used the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 as definitive proof that the prophecy in the Book of Revelation is correct. The verses referring to a "star falling down and turning the waters bitter" are interpreted as the radioactive fallout from the disaster poisoning the environment around Chernobyl, leaving it uninhabitable.

'wormwood' is mentioned in the Book of Revelation as a falling star or meteor that appears after the third angel sounds its trumpet (there's seven angels and each trumpet spells a certain disaster that kills of millions or billions). Wormwood kills 1/3 of the earth after spoiling the rivers and seas and contaminating everything.
Page 282

Page 282 of the So Joana Book depicts scenes in Trinidad. Page 277 and Page 288 and Page 289 are adjacent.

Two unidentified esoteric symbols written in blue ink are drawn on the page. The page number 282 is circled.

void on discord noted that the circle in the upper symbol would have roughly 280 degrees. the two triangles are 90, 40, 50 triangles with the 40 angle being the one cutting into the circle. 40+40 = 80, 360 - 80 = 280. this number is very similar to the page number. ~~there is also some resemblance to depictions of the concept of pansophia or the holy trinity (thus, being written next to trinidad)~~

for the upper symbol, the triangle part resembles the design the 7 blue MEDICINEDOWN terms make when charted on a map. the circle, then would correspond to the 4 red terms, which are already associated with circles via their layout in the medicinedown image and how they are used there to represent the 4 cardinal directions on a medicinewheel/compass
Black Hole Sun

"Black Hole Sun" is a song by the Japanese-American Hip-Hop group Cibo Matto. It is a cover of the Soundgarden song and is sung in French. The song appeared in the short film "09132 -28" on the Ricky Macchristen youtube page.

Lyrics:

Dans mes yeux indisposés

Déguisés personne ne sait

(?...) le visage

(?...) soleil

(?...), (?...) d'été

(?...) sous le noir le ciel a l'air mort

(?...)

(?...)

Black hole sun

Viens dans moi

(?...) tu la pluie

Black hole sun

Viens dans moi

Viens dans moi

Black hole sun

Viens dans moi

(?...) tu la pluie

Black hole sun

Viens dans moi

Viens dans moi
DECKER

**DECKER** is the 14th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the Ace of Spades.

The coordinates 34°3′43.2 -80°57′17.6 are written on the card and point to Dent Middle School in Forest Acres, South Carolina. The Ace of Spades is mentioned in the lyrics of the song Heart of Art by Hope for Agoldensummer.

Decker's Flea Market, in Murphy, North Carolina, is seen in the KLINGMAN film.
Joanna Bald

**Joanna Bald** is a location referred to in the So Joana Book. A map inside the front cover of the book draws a line from the Murphy Pyramid to Joanna Bald and is labelled "50 JOANA." This is the origin of the name "So Joana."

A fire lookout tower and radio antennas are on the summit of Joanna Bald. The codeword JOANA is related to Joanna Bald and is a possible location. Another theory puts JOANA at the Chota Memorial, the coordinates of which are on Page 693.

Joanna Bald was a location important to the Cherokee. It was called, **ᏗᏯᎭᎵ Ᏹ** (Diya'hali-yi), which translates to "The Lizard Place" by the Cherokee.
10 of Hearts

The **10 of Hearts** is a playing card first seen in the ZEBULON film and subsequently seen in the ALLGOOD short film. The coordinates 35°4′39″ -76°0′0″ are written on the card, which point to the southern most point of Ocracoke Island, North Carolina. The codeword CAMELBACK is associated with the card and location.

Jonesborough, Tennessee is pictured on the original card.
8 of Diamonds

The **8 of Diamonds** is a playing card first seen in the ZEBULON film. The coordinates 33°28′30⅓″ 81°58′9½″ are written on the card and point to Porkchop's Tower, in Augusta, Georgia. The code-word PORKCHOP is tied to the location.

Natural Bridge in Rockbridge County, Virginia is pictured on the original card.

A Joker is seen flashing the 8 of Diamonds in the KLINGMAN film.
32 Footsteps

32 Footsteps is a song by They Might Be Giants and is featured in the short film KLINGMAN on the Ricky Macchristen youtube page.

Lyrics:

32 footsteps leading to the room where the paint doesn't want to dry

32 footsteps running down the road where the dirt reaches the sky

32 feathers in my brand-new Indian headdress

32 new moons shining in 32 skies

What's the reason, why'd she go

Where's my baby, I don't know

32 footsteps, counted them myself, 32 footsteps

Bing bang bingalong, cing cang cingalong, ding dang dingalong day

Fing fang fingalong, Ging gang gingalong, hing hang hingalong hay

Jing jang jingalong, king kang kingalong, ling lang lingalong lay

Ming mang mingalong, ning nang ningalong, ping pang pingalong pay

What's the reason, why'd she go

Where's my baby, I don't know

32 footsteps, counted them myself, 32 footsteps

32 lies my ears never saw when the floorboards gave way

32 walls come tumbling down and the night turns to day

32 infantrymen running in place

32 boxcars, all of them have your face

What's the reason, why'd she leave

Don't you know we're on the eve of

32 footsteps, counted them myself, 32 footsteps

28

(no) 29

(no) 30

31
PORKCHOP

**PORKCHOP** is the 34th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 8 of Diamonds. This card reveals the coordinates 33°28′30⅓″ 81°58′9½″, which point to Porkchop's Tower, a radio tower in downtown Augusta, Georgia owned by AT&T. The tower was built in the 1960's as part of the AT&T Long Lines system of microwave relay towers.

The codeword PORKCHOP is written on Page 683.

Porkchop is the nickname of Augusta, Georgia artist Leonard Zimmerman.
ARSENALOAK

**ARSENALOAK** is the 2nd codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 2 of Hearts. The coordinates 33°58′34″ 80°57′32½″ are written on the card and point to Wm. Jennings Bryan Dorn VA Medical Center, Columbia, South Carolina.

The Arsenal Oak was a large and old oak tree located on the campus of Augusta University. The oak likely first grew in the 18th century and was torn down in 2004. The oak was used in the logo of Augusta State University from 1996 to 2012 before the school was re-branded as Augusta University.
Right angle puzzle

The 'right angle puzzle' or '76 puzzle' is a set of 3 pages that share various motifs

page 449

page 516

page 518

All three pages contain a right angle that is either directly marked as 76°, or in the case of 449 has '76' circled

In 518, the mason's square has 4 notches on the horizontal axis and 7 on the vertical axis. Similarly, 516 has a number above the horizontal axis that starts with 4, and a number next to the vertical axis starting with 7.

In all three instances, the vertical axis is kept to the right side of the horizontal axis. As its associated with 7, and the other axis with 4, this lines up well with the arrangement of the MEDICINEDOWN image, were the 7 blue terms are to the right of the 4 red terms

76° may refer to CAMELBACK
Page 383

Page 383 of the So Joana Book depicts scenes of New Zealand. Page 375 and Page 385 are adjacent.

The word "Sutherland" is circled in blue ink.

Sutherland Mill is the name of a mill that has been converted to condos in Augusta, Georgia on the Augusta Canal. The mill located directly on the line between Porkchop's Tower (PORKCHOP) and the Augusta University Compass Rose (ALLGOOD).
Page 404 and Page 405

Page 404 and 405 of the So Joana Book depict scenes of Boston, Massachusetts. Page 403 and Page 424 are adjacent.

The word "WAY" is written in blue ink next to the word BOSTON forming "BOSTON WAY," one of the roads found in Biltmore Village and is part of the hidden map found on Page 289.

the terms 'Charles' and 'Street' are also circled, forming 'Charles Street', which is a street in Asheville. it does not ever intersect Boston Way
JOANA

**JOANA** is the 26th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the King of Spades. Joanna Bald is a mountain in Western North Carolina related to JOANA.

JOANA is one of the few codewords to appear in the book more than once, both in pencil but also in pen.

***50 JOANA*** appears on the inside front cover and is where the name "So Joana" came from. An arrow leading from the X square symbol on the front cover is taken to mean 50 degrees from the Murphy Pyramid (MEDICINEDOWN), which intersects with Joanna Bald. The codeword JOANA shows up on Page 666 as one of 3 codewords shown in conjunction with a compass rose on the page.

Page 666, which lists several CROSSFIRE GAMBIT key terms and angles, that are all relative to the Augusta University compass rose, lists 321 degrees as the angle between ALLGOOD and **JOANA**. this line comes very close to Joanna Bald, but following it further, also comes very close to chota memorial (given on Page 693).

The partial coordinate revealed on the King of Spades intersects with Joanna Bald.

JOANA is seen in the hidden list of codewords in the photograph of the Murphy Pyramid found on MEDICINEDOWN.com.

ricky made a community post in 2023 showing grafitti at this location
5 of Hearts

The **5 of Hearts** is a playing card that was first revealed in the Happy Christmas, Folks post on the Ricky Macchristen YouTube page.

The coordinates "33 28 58 3/4, 82 5 21 1/3" are written on the card and point to The Atrium building in Augusta, Georgia.

The codeword ATRIUM is associated with the card.

Gatlinburg, Tennessee is depicted on the original card.
XENOPHON

**XENOPHON** is the 50th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the Jack of Clubs. The coordinates 35°45′53⅔″ 82°15′54⅓″ are written on the card. The coordinates point to the location seen on the card, Mount Mitchell, North Carolina.

This is one of only two cards who's coordinates are the same as the pictured location on the card. The other card, the 9 of Diamonds, pictures the town of Helen, Georgia.

Xenophon was a 4th century Greek philosopher and military leader from Athens.

A xenophone is a sound in speech that is not native to the language being spoken, borrowed from a foreign language
Page 146 and Page 147

Page 146 and Page 147 of the So Joana Book depicts scenes of Switzerland. On one of the photos on Page 146 a small ⟐ (diamond with a centered dot) symbol is drawn in blue ink between the spires of Hofkirche. In the caption for Lido Beach in Lugano on Page 147 the word Lido is circled in pen. Page 136 and Page 153 are adjacent.

Lido means 'beach' in Italian, and in Spanish and Portuguese it means "that which has been discussed or argued about"; it is the past participle of "to read". it having 4 characters may have relevance. page 181 is the next page with anything circled, where a 7 letter word is circled.

Also see blue dotted shapes
Page 512 and Page 513

**Pages 512 and 513** of the So Joana Book depicts scenes of South Carolina and Georgia. Page 509 and Page 514 and Page 515 are adjacent.

On page 514 the word "Aiken" is circled in the caption of a photo of horses playing polo. A diagram or map is drawn on the photo, in the center of the drawing is the sigil symbol. 33° is written on the photo, most likley a hint to the location of the diagram via giving its meridan (33 degrees). the angle of the ray is roughly 204 degrees. The ray threads between a cluster of TV transmitter towers near Spiderweb SC, and the diagram on the right page seems to refer to an intersection of maintenance clearings to the west of the WRDW-TV transmitter.

On page 515, above a photo of the Savannah River, a series of dots are drawn under the letters in the sentence "GRACIOUS GEORGIA HAS VARIED TOPOGRAPHY, VARIED INTERESTS" The following letters have dots drawn under them: G, A, T, O, P, R, T, E and T. As the meaning of this isn't understood, it might be considered part of the So Joana Codes. A variation on the sigil symbol is drawn on the page.

reading the underlined letters in order we get: 'GATOPRTET'. however, note that letters have been chosen so that there are never ones directly above/below another, so you can read it left to right as one line. 'top gratet'. 'gratet' is 'target' scrambled, so this reads 'top target'
Artichoke (Song)

***Artichoke*** is a song by Cibo Matto. It is the last song heard in the ARTICHOKE film and plays over a segment of a home movie of someone walking the entire length of the graffiti covered Tunnel to Nowhere in Bryson City, North Carolina.

I eat petals myself one by one
Until I feel enough
Until I lose to laugh
 When I end to eat the last one
I will tear my drops
I will lose my lips
 Though I can't stop plucking off
I can't see my core
I keep asking for you more and more
Your hands are like a RUSTY KNIFE
Are you gonna keep on peeling me?
 What am I gonna be on the pan?
Will I be BURNT BLACK?
A LEMON on me?
Baby, baby, everything you want to taste
CORONA

**CORONA** is the 12th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the Queen of Hearts, and the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas.

The codeword CORONA is written on Page 688 in pencil, on the same page with a detailed sketch of the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas.

One source claims the tower is named after the Mayan 'Tower of the Sun', which would explain the name 'CORONA' (a corona being the 'halo' like light around the sun). This is corroborated by the abundancy of Mayan themed art around the location (as testified by stellaMortua who visited the tower in late 2023), but the source is still a tad dubious.

There was a contest held at one point to name the tower. The winner was a 'Rosa Gonzalez'

The movie cloak and dagger, from which the phrase 'crossfire gambit' is taken, takes place in San Sntonio- and the scene where the line is in takes place at the river walk surrounding the tower.
So Joana Codes

The **So Joana Codes** are a series of four seemingly random alpha phrases scattered throughout the So Joana Book. Despite numerous attempt, these codes have not been broken yet, nor have their purpose been ascertained within the context of the rest of the mystery.

The first code appears on the inside cover of the book and is broken in to two lines. It is 33 characters (20 and 13 characters respectively.):

* NJKUZGJMVNUAGEWVOFXY
* EFBXDMIEYHHAD

The second code appears on Page 503 and is broken in to three lines. It is 32 characters long (13, 14, and 5 characters respectively.):

* RQDTGSWMRGTOT
* AOPOJKFDWKGZBD
* TSHEB

The third code appears on page 513, above a photo of the Savannah River, a series of dots are drawn under the letters in the sentence "GRACIOUS GEORGIA HAS VARIED TOPOGRAPHY, VARIED INTERESTS" The following nine letters have dots drawn under them: G, A, T, O, P, R, T, E and T. This is the only 'code' that isn't written out, so it isn't known if this code is related to the other for certain. This page is adjacent to the next page.

* GATOPRTET

The fourth code appears on the adjacent Page 515 and is written vertically over a picture of an obelisk style gravestone from the National Cemetery at Marietta. This code is 13 characters long. A long diagonal line is drawn across the code and obelisk, intersecting the letter B.

* HFEWLBKXHZOOP

The fifth and final code appears on Page 636 and and is broken in to two lines. The code is 39 characters long (21 and 18 characters respectively.) The last six characters of the code spell out TALULA:

* PEKNMMLMXYXAKCEIRFAOU
* TUOGNXTZCKDDTALULA

The 52 cards shown in the ALLGOOD film are a simple code, the cards and their corresponding codewords spell out the phrase:

* SO YOUD LIKE ME TO CONNECT THE DOTS FOR YOU LEAD YOU FROM A TO B TO C

"*Oh, you'd like me to connect the dots for you, lead you from A to B to C, so that your puny mind could comprehend. How boring.*" is the last line spoken by the trickster god-like alien Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation in the last episode of the series *All Good Things...*

The 52 cards shown in sequence in the ZEBULON film are assumed to be a code, too.

If they followed same pattern that the ALLGOOD followed, with the codeword associated with each playing card representing a letter of the alphabet, it would spell out the 52 character-long phrase:

* MTYNLONPLUSBQDVXUUPOQKPBVOCPAKMEQUOYCLCOBMEOVVMONWZA

A german blog called Cipherbrain was the first to post about the codes, and the thread is worth a read.
TALULA

**TALULA** is the 44th (or 45th) codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 5 of Clubs (or 6 of Clubs).

The codeword is tied to the name Tallulah, such as in Tallulah Falls, Tallulah River, Tallulah Gorge, and Tallulah, Georgia. There were two Cherokee villages named for Tallulah.

TALULA is part of the TALULAJOANA freemason cipher on Page 49. A map of Tallulah Gorge is drawn on Page 185.

The Cherokee for TALULA, ᏔᎷᎳ, can be seen written twice in the book. The first instance is written in pen on Page 766, written next to the Index entry for GEORGIA. The second instance is written on the inside of the back cover in pencil.

A segment of code found on Page 636 has the word TALULA in it.

The codeword TALULA is part of the hidden lists of codewords embedded in the photograph of the Murphy Pyramid found on the MEDICINEDOWN.com website.

There is a Tallulah Road on the way to Joanna Bald Fire Tower
Page 759

Page 759 of the So Joana Book is a page depicting scenes of Hawaii. Page 752 and Page 766 are adjacent.

In blue ink is written the word KANERVA under a photo of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Kanerva is another name for the flower Heather in Finnish. The youtube video *The So Joana Book Mystery* claims the name is tied to someone in the Intelligence Community.

KANERVA may also be a reference to Pentti Kanerva, a Finnish neuroscientist who attended Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa NC. He is most well known for inventing the Sparse distributed memory model of human memory.

KANERVA has 7 letters, and is written under the words 'boat', 'trip', and 'leaving', which have lengths 4, 4, and 7. total, this gives two words of 4 letters and two words of seven letters
Queen of Hearts

The **Queen of Hearts** is a playing card first seen in the ZEBULON film. It coordinates 29°25′8½″ 98°29′0¾″ written on the card point to the Tower of the Americas in San Antonio, Texas. The original card depicts Linville Gorge, North Carolina.

The card is associated with the codeword CORONA, which is seen on Page 688 along with a drawing of the Tower of the Americas.
Jack of Diamonds

The **Jack of Diamonds** is a playing card first seen in the ALLGOOD short film. The coordinates on the card read 34°59'59⅔" 88°11'21⅔″ and point to an island in Pickwick Lake, Tennessee River, Waterloo, Alabama near the Tennessee-Mississippi border. The codeword RIBCAGE is associated with the location and card.
Takako Minekawa

Takako Minekawa is a Japanese electronica musician who's music has been featured in films on the Ricky Macchristen youtube channel. Both of the songs used are from the album Roomic Cube. The cube is a symbol seen on Page 30 and is associated with the Georgia Guidestones.

The song "1.66666" is heard in the ARTICHOKE short film, the song is in Japanese and the lyrics of the song have not been translated yet.

The song "Black...White" is heard in the ZEBULON short film, the song is in French and is a cover of a Jane Berkin song. The song "Black Hole Sun" by Cibo Matto is also a cover song sung in French by Japanese musicians.
BEEBEE

**BEEBEE** is the 7th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 7 of Hearts.

its coordinate is 35°7′29.6″ -84°14′33″ or the All Nations Cross at Fields of the Wood in North Carolina.

The codeword is seen in a hidden list of codewords embedded in the photograph seen on the MEDICINEDOWN.com website.
So Joana Book Wiki

The So Joana Book is a mystery and a puzzle centered around a travel book discovered and posted to Reddit in April of 2019, found to be filled with cryptic codewords, coordinates, diagrams, sketches, and codes, written in both pencil and pen. The original scans of the book can be found in an imgur album. As of Christmas 2023 the mystery is ongoing.

The puzzle continues through the YouTube page of Ricky Macchristen, who started uploading videos in April of 2019 and continues to upload to this day. Both the book and the videos have revealed dozens of coordinate locations. The coordinates point to locations in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, and the United Kingdom. A Google map is available to see all of the locations revealed so far.

Two websites: CROSSFIREGAMBIT.COM and MEDICINEDOWN.COM were part of the mystery. Although these sites are now gone, they were archived by the Internet Archive.

On CROSSFIREGAMBIT.COM the CROSSFIREGAMBIT codeword list is a list of 52 codewords.

The MEDICINEDOWN.COM website has a picture of the Murphy Pyramid in Murphy, NC. The image is exactly 1838 pixels by 1838 pixels. The Cherokee Trail of Tears started in Murphy, NC in 1838. The image has 11 keywords steganographically hidden in it. The keywords Joana, Ofelia, Beebee, and Talula are hidden to the left of the pyramid, and Rosa, White Alice, Jenny, Bambino, Eve, Iris, and Toccoa are hidden to the right of the pyramid.

A subreddit was created to build a community of investigators to help solve this mystery: reddit.com/r/SoJoanaBook

A Discord channel is at: https://discord.gg/8bK5kqTQkE
3 of Spades

The **3 of Spades** is a playing card first seen in the ALLGOOD film. The coordinates 35°23'36.6″ 82°46'29" are written on the card and point to the Fire lookout tower at Fryingpan Mountain, North Carolina. The location is associated with the codeword DIABLO.

A picture of Indian Paintbrush and Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee is on the original playing card.
Obelisk

The codeword LEMON is written next to the Washington Monument on Page 464.

A snippet of code is written over an obelisk style gravestone from the National Cemetery at Marietta on Page 515.

A drawing of the Tower of Americas in San Antonio is drawn behind the San Jacinto monument in Houston, Texas Page 688.

A photo of the Zebulon Vance Monument is seen at the beginning of the ZEBULON film.

A photo of the **obelisk** shaped Jefferson Davis Monument at Fairview, Kentucky can be seen on Page 500. FAIRVIEW is one of the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT words.

A photo of an obelisk shaped marker is seen on Page 609. A line drawn over the photo leads to a dot and two circles and the word "Pack". The Zebulon Vance Monument is located at Pack Square in Asheville, North Carolina.
Page 362 and Page 363

**Pages 362 and 363** of the So Joana Book depicts scenes of Chile. Page 341 and Page 366 are adjacent.

The page appears to depict drawings of several military insignia.

A feather overlaid with a lightning bolt appears to be the rank insignia of the US Navy Cryptologic Technician.

A drawing of a spearhead might be the insignia of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM or SOCOM).

A drawing of a lightning bolt overlaid with a torch and a key appears to depict the insignia of US Army Intelligence and Security Command. The drawing differs in that the key is inverted. An inverted key is also seen in the ALLGOOD film when the frame depicting the cards that spell out "CONNECT."

Several words across the two pages have been circled including ‘Alameda’ (Spanish for promenade, one of the songs in the ARTICHOKE short film is *Promenade* by U2), ‘Bernardo,’ ‘Hipico’ (Spanish for ‘equestrian’, Aiken, South Carolina is famous for being an equestrian town), ‘Santiago,’ ‘Grace,’ (A possible reference to Grace Hooper) ‘railroad' (railroads are a common theme.)

santiago, railroad, and bernardo are all 8 letters

'grace' along with the navy cryptographic technician insignia is likely a reference to Grace Hopper, the mother of modern programming. Augusta, GA has a road named after her, the same location as the page 68 coordinate.

"EM" is written in the corner of page 362. A 3 has been added to 363 and WHEELER is written underneath. This is a reference to the 3633 Wheeler Road, the address for The Atrium Building in Augusta, Georgia. This building is associated with a number of Intelligence Community agencies and private companies such as Booz Allen Hamilton.
GREENGROW

**GREENGROW** is the 22nd codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 9 of Spades.

Half the coordinate can be seen in Rickys 'Happy Christmas, Folks' post.

From this, we can extract a vertical line where the coordinate should fall. The line goes over Greenville, SC, lining up with this codeword's name.

One of the tweets from the Wendy twitter account gives further hints- 'time is a mirror' with an image of Furman University lake and clock tower, and overlaid on it upside down the former Greenville, SC county council building.

Before Furman combined its men's and woman's campuses, its men's campus was where the county council building is now. specifically, the building containing the original Furman Bell Tower.

According to this article, the Bell Tower was to the right of the entrance doors of the county council building- the vertical line passes over the county council building to the right of the doors, giving us the GREENGROW location.
Its been a long long long hike

'Its been a long long long hike' is a community post made by the Ricky Macchristen Youtube channel.

At some point, the post's text was edited from 'its been a long long long hike' to 'its been a long long hike'.

The post shows a TV translation station with a red rose grafitti on it. A three legged tower with power cables running to it is next to the shed. An old chair is in front.

There is some compression artifacting suggesting something to the right of the rose has been blurred out. checking the location reveals this is not the case

After a nearly identical chair was found in a Youtube video taken on Joana Bald, a visit to Joana Bald found the graffiti.
Music

Alphabetical list of all songs played or quoted in the mystery.

"1.666666" - Takako Minekawa

"32 Footsteps" - They Might Be Giants

"Apple" - Cibo Matto (GRAYBEAT codeword reference only)

"Artichoke" - Cibo Matto (ARTICHOKE, RUSTYKNIFE, LEMON, BURNTBLACK codeword reference)

"Big River" - Johnny Cash

"Black Hole Sun" - Cibo Matto (Cover of Soundgarden song), in French

"Black...White" - Takako Minekawa (Cover of Jane Birkin song), original and cover in French, in English

"Can't Get There From Here" - R.E.M.

"Green Grow the Rushes" - R.E.M. (GREENGROW codeword reference only)

"Heartbeat - Jose Gonzalez"

"Heart of Art" - Hope for Agoldensummer

"How Do - The Sneaker Pimps"

"Iris" - Breeders (IRIS codeword reference)

"Island" - Autour de Lucie, in French

"Jenny Artichoke" - Kaleidoscope (ARTICHOKE codeword reference)

"La clé des Champs" - N'to ("The Key of the Fields"), French artist

"Laying Down the Gun" - Hope for Agoldensummer (RIBCAGE and MEDICINEDOWN codeword reference only)

"Ode to What Could Have Been" - Par Hagstrom

"Pause" - Stereolab

"Promenade" - U2

"Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" - Radiohead

"True Love Waits" - Radiohead

"Runners Dial Zero" - Beck

"Silver" - the Pixies

"Stardust" - Jimmie Lunceford (Cover of Hoagy Carmichael song)

"Star Me Kitten" - R.E.M.

"St. Lucy's Gate" - Stonepony

"Theme" - Cibo Matto

"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite" - R.E.M.

"Total Depravity" - The Veils

"Voice of Harold" - R.E.M.

"Wall of Death" - R.E.M. (Cover of Richard Thompson song)

"We Stayed Up All Night" - Tourist

"White Pepper Ice Cream" - Cibo Matto
ATRIUM

**ATRIUM** is the 5th codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 5 of Hearts.

The codeword/card link to 33°28'58.75" -82°5'21⅓", which is The Atrium, an office building in Augusta, Georgia located at 3363 Wheeler Road. This address is also on page 362 and 363 of the book.

A photo from a realty website showing the interior of the Atrium building appears in Wendy's #ATRIUM tweet.
7 of Diamonds

The **7 of Diamonds** is a playing card first seen in the ZEBULON film and subsequently seen in the ALLGOOD film. The coordinates 33°17′33″ 85°37′25″ are written on the card and lead to an island in Lake Wedowee, Alabama. The location and card are tied to the codeword OPHELIA. The location is less than two miles away from Ofelia, Alabama.

The Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia is pictured on the original playing card.
Page 30

**Page 30** of the So Joana Book features 'England, The South' and shows photos of Salisbury Cathedral and Stonehenge. Page 18 and Page 37 are adjacent.

Written below a photo of Stonehenge is the coordinates 34°13′55½″ 82°53′40″ and the depiction of a cube with MM, 16, and 20 written on the three faces. The coordinates point to the previous location of the Georgia Guidestones, which was sometimes referred to as "America's Stonehenge." The depiction of the cube is a reference to a small cube which was inserted into a gap at the top of the Guidestones in 2014, and subsequently removed and destroyed later that year:

> [T]here are genuine mysteries involving the Guidestones. The most recent saga began back in 2009, when a 6 x 6 x 6 cube of granite was stolen from the top corner of one of the stones. Four years later, in 2013, a man named William Jeremy Ellis was apprehended in the middle of the night while attempting to put the cube *back* *onto* the monument. He later explained that he had removed the stone for “personal esoteric and numerological reasons,” and that he’d decided to return it because he ”didn’t want that weight anymore.” The original cube was recovered and when we spoke by phone to Christopher Kubas, executive vice president of Elberton Granite, which is still in charge of maintaining the monument, he confirmed that he is in possession of the original cube but that the company has not yet decided what to do with it.
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JAM and 14 are the names of the first two videos uploaded by Ricky Macchristen, which also geotag the Georgia Guidestones, and are titled after the inscriptions on the fake cube
5 of Spades

The **5 of Spades** is a playing card first seen in the ZEBULON short film and subsequently seen in the ALLGOOD short film. The coordinates 35°53′24⅔″ 75°39′53⅔″ are written on the card, and these coordinates point to the Dare County government complex on the center of Roanoke Island, North Carolina on U.S. Highway 64. The island is the location of one of the first English colonies in the New World, and the colony is famous for being the "lost colony."

The CROSSFIRE GAMBIT code-word EVE coincides with this card. The Wright Brothers Memorial, as seen in a photo on Page 507 is about 8 miles away, almost directly north from this location. The name "Eve" might refer to the first woman, as named in the Bible. The location of Roanoke Island is also the location where the first English child was born in the New World, Virginia Dare, possibly an allusion to Eve. She was among the first settlers on Roanoke Island, all of whom mysteriously disappeared. The Roanoke Island mystery is one of many referenced in the So Joana Book.

The Wright Brothers flew their first plane at Kitty Hawk, possibly tying into the concept of "first."

A picture of The Blowing Rock in North Carolina is depicted on the original playing card.
4 of Spades

The **4 of Spades** is a playing card first seen in the ZEBULON film and subsequently seen in the ALLGOOD short film. The coordinates 33°47′4⅓″ 84°23′0″ are written on the card which lead to 1100 Peachtree, in Atlanta, Georgia. The codeword EINSTEIN is associated with this card and location.

A photo of a Black Bear in Cades Cove, North Carolina is pictured on the original playing card.