“Who can solve this encrypted book?”, I asked five weeks ago. Blog reader Klaus Tappeiner from South Tyrol, Italy, could. His solution of the Tengri 137 cryptogram is absolutely ingenious.
On January 29th this year I reported on the Tengri 137 mystery. Tengri 137 is an encrypted book anonymously published in August 2016. Here’s a PDF for download.
The mystery
The Tenri 137 book has 23 pages. The following figure shows page 7:
The purpose of Tengri 137 is unclear. It might be an internet game similar to Cicada 3301.
Pages 1 to 16 of Tengri 137 were already solved, when I published my first article about this mystery. The solution is available in the Tengri 137 Wikia. However, pages 17 to 23 are different from the 16 first ones. Their meaning was unknown until recently. Here they are:
These last seven pages of the Tengri 137 book contain long multiplications and divisions. Do they encode a message? If yes, what kind of code is used? All these questions remained unanswered.
The solution
A few days ago, a blog reader named Klaus Tappeiner, who wasn’t known to me, posted the following solution (it contains a line provided by Norbert Biermann):
Page 17
TIME FOR THE TRUTH
OVER MANY THOUSAND YEARS WE SEND YOU MESSENGERS AND TEACHER
ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE BEHIND YOUR CIVILISATION IS OURS
WE ARE THE DESIGNERS OF MANY CIVILISATIONS
YOUR CIVILISATION IS ONE OF MANY BILLION CIVILISATIONS
THE MANKIND IS DESIGNED TO RECIEVE OUR THOUGHT
SOME GENIUS IDEA YOU HAVE ARE OURS
WE CAN HEAR YOUR THOUGHT
WE KNOW YOUR NEEDS
WE CAN LET YOU SEE THINGS
WE CAN LET YOU MAKE THINGS
WE CAN GIVE YOU THOUGHTS
YOU LEARN IN INTERACTION WITH US
WE CALL SOME OF THE CHOSEN ONES THE MESSENGERS
THIS MESSENGERS ARE OUR REPRESENTATIVES
WE SEND YOU OUR WORD AND KNOWLEDGE OVER THIS MESSENGERS
Page 18
THE REARE PEOPLE AMONG YOU
THESE PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF OUR INTERVENTION
WE PREPARE YOU FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS FOR THIS MEETING
THOSE WHO HAVE UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING CORRECTLY
HAVE USED OUR KNOWLEDGE WELL
OTHERS WHO HAVE NOT UNDERSTOOD ANYTHING HAVE MADE US GODS
THESE ARE DANGEROUS IN THEIR THOUGHTS AND ACTION
KEEP DISTANCE
SUCH WE DO NOT WANT TO HAVE AMONG US
WE ARE NOT YOUR GODS
YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST
EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS IS BASED ON AMATHEMA
NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS
DO NOT BELIEVE IN ANY GOD
BEWARE FROM THOSE WHO CALLS THEMSELVES GODS
THOSE ARE EVIL
Page 19
ANOTHER TRUTH
A CALCULATION THAT CAN NOT BE REVIEWED BY YOU
DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE IS NO ANSWER
A BORDER THAT YOU CANNOT SEE
DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT DOES NOT EXIST
SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN NOT MEASURE
DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS UNMEASURABLE
IF YOU ALWAYS WOULD GO STRAIGHT FOR WAR
WHICH SEEMS TO BE ENDLESS
YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO PROVE AT SOME POINT
THAT THIS GARDEN HAS A FENCE
EVEN IF YOU TRY TO PROVE THAT THIS GARDEN HAS NO FENCE
YOU WOULD INEVITABLY PROVE THE CONTRARY
Page 20
YOUR MEASUREMENT IS ONLY VALID WITH AN EXACT RESULT
THE MEASURMENT OF AN INFINITE GARDEN CAN NOT BROUGHT TO AN END BY YOU
YOU HAVE NOT THE TOOLS AND YOU HAVE NOT THE TIME
NOT THE LIFESPAN OF AN HUMAN WE MEAN THE LIFESPAN OF YOUR UNIVERSE
THE INFINITY OF THIS GARDEN WOULD BE ONLY A GUESS NOT A FACT
WHO TRY TO PROVE THE INFINITY PROVE AT END THE OPPOSITE
THIS IS INEVITABLE (+?)
OUR CIVILIZATION EXISTS SINCE THREE BILLION OF YOUR EARTH YEARS
WE ARE BEINGS FROM ANOTHER GALAXY
WE ARE IN YOUR GALAXY FOR OVER FIFTY MILLION YEARS AND
CONTACTED OVER HUNDRED THOUSAND DIFFERENT SPECIES
THE SEARCH FOR THE LIMITS OF THE UNIVERSE IS OVER
THE UNIVERSE IS VERY LARGE BUT NOT INFINITE
THERE LIVE MANY OTHER SPECIES SUCH YOURS
MANY OF THESE CIVILIZATIONS COULD REACH THE NEXT STAGE
YOUR CIVILISATION HAS REACHED THE CRITICAL LIMIT
IF YOU DO NOT MAKE THE NEXT STEP IN YOUR EVOLUTION
YOU WILL DESTROY YOURSELVES
MANY CIVILIZATIONS FAIL (+?)
Page 21
WE WILL GIVE YOU KNOWLEDGS
ONLY THE CHOSEN ONE CAN COME TO
AND WILL UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
WITHOUT THIS KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL NOT REACH THE NEXT STAGE
YOUR CIVILISATION WILL BE DESTROYED
NO ONE EXCEPT THE CHOSEN ONE WILL HAVE ACCESS TO OUR DATABASE
NOW WE SHOULD CHOOSE OUR NEXT MESSENGER
THIS IS THE LAST
THE REWARD IS THE ACCESS TO OUR ETERNAL LIBRARY
UPCOMING TEXTS ARE GENETICALLY ENCRYPTED
YOUR KNOWLEDGE CAN NOT HELP AT THIS POINT
WE HAVE EMBEDDED THESE SKILLS IN OURR GENES
WHO HAS THE CORRECT GENETIC CODING WILL UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT
ALL OTHERS WILL FAIL
Page 22
READ THE NEXT TEXT CAREFULLY IN FULL LENGTH
FOR EACH REPEAT OPERATION OPENS A REGION IN YOUR BRAIN
THIS TEXTS CONTAINS THE UNICUE KEY
TO HIGHLY COMPRESSED DATA IN YOUR BRAIN
THE UNPACKED VOLUME OF THIS HIDDEN INFORMATION IS LARGE
WE USED TWO PERCENT OF YOUR BRAIN
TO STORE THE PACKED INFORMATION
AFTER UNPACKED WILL TAKE FIFTY PRECENT OF THE EMPTY PLACE
BE WARNED THIS PROCESS CAN TAKE MONTHS
REPEAT IT OFTEN NEVER BREAK INT HE MIDDLE
IF YOU START READING YOU MUST READ THE TEXT IN FULL LENGHT OEND
MEDITATION IS IMPORTANT YOU HAVE TO REACH A PURE STATE OF MIND
THE REFORMATTING OF THE BRAIN CAN NOT BE REVERSED
Page 23 is still unsolved!
Was this correct? Apparently it was! The explanation Klaus gave in another post made sense. It was a truly ingenious piece of codebreaking!
I sent a mail to Klaus Tappeiner and asked him for some background information. He replied with a comprehensive mail including the following photograph of himself:
Klaus wrote that he is from South Tyrol, the German-speaking part of Italy. He told me: “Since I came across the Tengri puzzle on your blog, this mystery fascinated me. Someone must have invested a lot of time and creativity in it! The construction of the number cubes is awesome. I would imagine that a group of mathematics or computer science students are behind this puzzle.”
For solving pages 17-22, Klaus first calculated the results of all the equations up to 500 decimal places. Then he looked at the results and tried to discover some logic behind them. Did these numbers code a message? At first, he didn’t find a coding system that made sense.
After taking a break for about a week, the periodic table from chemistry came into Klaus’ mind (the last page, which is still unsolved, shows chemical symbols and nuclein bases).
This approach turned out to be correct. As Klaus found out, the result of each computation must be divided into two or three-digit numbers. Each of these numbers is interpreted as the atomic number of a chemical element. The first letter of each element represents the cleartext letter. For instance, the number 33 stands for the element arsenic (As) and therefore encodes the cleartext letter A.
As an example, let’s look at the first calculation on page 17:
The result is 0.43772563877637228063…
This gives us the following sequence of digit pairs: 43 77 25 63 87 76 37 22 80 63 …
Looking up each digit pair in the periodic table results in the following cleartext: TIME FOR THE TRUTH
The cleartext describes a technology for storing data in DNA strands.
After having looked at this solution, I can only say: Congratulations Klaus, this was magnificent! It was one of the greatest codebreaking successes in the history of this blog.
The last page of Tengri 137 is still unsolved. Can reader decipher it, too? And can somebody explain with which method the creators of Tengri 137 made these calculations?
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