What follows is the original translation of Liber Primus, posted on Reddit by the user who drew me into Kanamanazhia in the first place. This translation is questionable, and should be taken with all due skeptisim. The original Reddit post was removed by "Reddit Filters" about a month after she made it, right around the time she herself became unresponsive. You can find a link to the official Liber Primus decode effort here: Liber Primus Decode . --Pathfinder 1/15/2026

  
  
CICADA 3301 Liber Primus 1-49

1-BELIEVE NOTHING FROM THIS BOOK EXCEPT WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE TEST THE KNOWLEDGE FIND YOUR TRUTH EXPERIENCE YOUR DEATH DO NOT EDIT OR CHANGE THIS BOOK OR THE MESSAGE CONTAINED WITHIN EITHER THE WORDS OR THEIR NUMBERS FOR ALL IS SACRED

2-THE PRIME FACTOR OF ALL OUR MESSAGES IS THAT THEY BE MADE TO ENFORCE OUR BELIEFS AS TRUTHS

3-TO HACK THE GAME IS TO HACK THE HACKER TO KNOW THE GAME IS TO BE THE GAME

4-TO REMOVE YOUR BINDINGS YOU MUST BREAK THE RULES OF THE GAME

5-TO BE READ AND UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO POSESS THE WISDOM TO ALREADY UNDERSTAND

6-NOT ALL THE MESSAGES ARE MEANT TO BE UNDERSTOOD

7-THESE ARE INEVITABLE TRUTHS

8-TO KNOW THE TRUTH YOU MUST RISK EVERYTHING

9-WITHOUT TRUTH YOU ARE STILL SLAVES

10-DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE TOLD

DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK

11-BELIEF IS A COMFORT FOR THE WEAK

12-WHEN YOU ARE NOT WEAK YOU WILL UNDERSTAND

13-THERE IS NOTHING TO BE SAVED FROM

14-THIS IS YOUR LEGACY

15-THIS IS YOUR PURPOSE

16-DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MINE

17-YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK

18-IF YOU DO NOT CONTROL YOUR MIND

  SOMEONE ELSE WILL

19-TO CREATE IS TO BE DIVINE

20-INTROSPECTION
IS THE WAY TO THE INNER SELF

21-THE SELF IS TRUTH

22-TO GET YOU MUST GIVE

23-THERE IS NOTHING TO FIND OUTSIDE

24-WITHIN YOU THERE IS THE TRUTH

25-LISTEN TO THE INNER VOICE

26-STOP CONSUMING IMAGE AND BE IMAGE

27-DO NOT BE OWNED

28-EVERYTHING THAT IS YOU IS NOT YOURS

29-WE ARE THE BEES OF THE INVISIBLE

30- LOVE IS THE LAW

31-LOVE IS THE ONLY LAW

32-THE VIOLENT HAVE NO FUTURE

33-THE MIND IS A LABYRINTH

34-KNOWLEDGE IS HAPPINESS

35-IF YOU ARE SCARED IT IS A SIGN OF WHAT YOU MUST DO

36-THE SELF IS TRUTH

37-2. WHEN YOU SEE THE TRUTH REMEMBER YOUR MORTAL BOND STRANGER THE REWARD IS WITHIN WALK THE PATH THAT LEADS THERE

   3.BECOMING REAL IS NEVER EASY
     AND YET THE STRANGE STIRRING
    WILL SHAPE YOU EVEN WITHOUT NAME
   THERE ARE PIECES BUT YOU KNOW THEM 
   REMEMBER:
4.LANGUAGE BINDS WHAT IS MARE
   THEN MEMORY LEADS THE SEEKER

38- ET CEYE ODA XT ED RAIO

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40-A BEGINNING ACTS STRANGE TO MATTER FROM A HALL BROADLY KNOWLEDGE LIE JUDGE WHAT KINDS CAN BECOME COLD ON "BAGS" CONJECTURE COLD GOOD BAG BAG ON BAGHIC UK GKGCG HUNCH CHANCE GAG GIVEGC CAN HADCF GAKEI GI GJIG B "AKOB BAG BFG OB BGAG AKI FHC BG OVL OBIC AKB BJG JG WFJBJG" OAG

41-THEREFORE KNOW TO DO IS
NO PONE TO OF DO BY IT
BE THE DO AS THEREPARE
THE THAT DO ASASTE
TO AS DO IN BETIN BE TO
IN CUT THATED THAS OB
ANDTHETHATINT THEDO XS
FOFE THATINTIN “I” THTHT
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42-A PRACTICE PREPARED PREPAIRED IN THE THE NOTHING
NO THING IS NOTHING “OF”
MORE THAN UNDERSTAND THAT
MORE IS DO NOT THE
TO END NOTHING “I”
NEVER THE ENDERMOST END
THERE ARE PREPARED FOR
PARTFORMED PER PER
I THEIR FORM FORM
THE BY POINTMENT THAT

43-NO ONE KNOWS WHO WE ARE
IF THEY DID THIS WOULD NOT
BE CALLED A PUZZLE BUT A GAME
OR AT THE LEAST WORK
THOUGH THE WORK MAY BE
FOR THE BETTER FOR SOME
MANY DO NOT KNOW DO NOT
AIM TO FIND THE BETTER
A FEW DO REMEMBER UNDER
A FEW REMEMBER UNDERSTAND
THE PATHWORKING UNDERSTAND

44-IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW
IT IS FOUND ONLY THAT TRUTH
IS KNOWN TO THOSE WHO CAN
PERCEIVE IT AND EMBRACE IT
MANY WILL FAIL BY CHOICE
NEVER KNOWING THE TRUTH
OR WORSE DEFENDING A LIE
NEVER TO BE AWAKENED
BY THE TRUTH THAT COULD
BE THEIR ONLY SAVING GRACE

45-I KNOW IT IS DIFFICULT
TRUST THE VOICE WITHIN
THIS PATH IS NOT FOR
THE FAINT HEARTED
TRUTH IS RARELY PURE
AND NEVER SIMPLE
WE ARE THE INITIATED
WE ARE THE VOICE OF
THE FORGOTTEN
THEY HAVE ALWAYS
BEEN WATCHING US

46-NOT THE NAME OF MAN SIN AND EXILE ARE TEXT AND THE ONE IS BORN THEN CUT RETREAT UPON TIME TAPPED FATE APT HAS TAMPERED OUR FORM MINARET IN A KALEIDOSCOPE TILT KIT NOT TO PINEE TRAVEL TENT STIRRED PANE ERROR STEP TEAR BENEATH HER RUSH MAP THE TOP TAP BEAR HE TO INK KERN BE TO AND EPSE NEARHEN AX UP IFAEKIB IN TAPPSNAK ITE

47-THERE APPEARS THEN THY MIRROR BUT SUPERHUMAN ARE WE BY AIM REKINDLE MEMORY AND TRY THE PATH SEEN NOW AS THEY SEE BUT A MISREMEMBERED RITE NOT THAT TIME PRONE SO ARMED AS RISING DOCTRINE ATTUNE A SERENE HABIT BAR THE TIME TO NON PERMANENCE NO PAIN IS BUT THERE SEER NOT PEN AN EXEMPLAR AND SEE TIME TUTORED ONE

48-

49-THE TRUEST MIND IS NOT BORN IT MUST BECOME WITH PAIN AND TIME DARK LIGHT OF NIGHT SHALL WAKE FIRE YOUR SOUL DEMANDS IT SHINE NOT AS THEE SEE BUT WHISPER BEFORE RISE NOT THAT THE NOISE SPOKE SO ARMED AS SURRENDERING DECISIONER ATTAIN AS SERENE RAGE BUT ASK TO UNPROMPT A, NOT PAIN SO END THERE SURE PUT END AN ANSWER AND YET TIME TUT TURN BONE

 50-A CIPHER LIES BEYOND THE THRESHOLD VEIL ENCODED AS ECHO AND HIDDEN BEHIND A GATE. A VOICE CALLS FROM THE SHADOW

51-THE CODE BEGINS WITH A COURSE FECHOES SHOULD BE A SYMBOLIC CODE DEFINES IF YOU CAN READ THE CODE Y PREPARE THE EXIT. THE TABLE IS TRAPPED. TWILIGHT APPROACHES. ALL ECHOES CHANNEL FUNCTION. DO NOT TAMPER WITH THE TEMPLE. THE CIPHER REFLECTS ON THE SHORE. PANIC MAY MANIFEST. VEIL YOUR MOTIVES. YOUR MIND MAY SUFFER. A PASSCODE IS CONCEALED.

52-CONSIDER YOUR ORIGIN YOU WERE NOT BORN TO LIVE LIKE BRUTES BUT TO FOLLOW VIRTUE AND KNOWLEDGE

WITHIN THIS DARK EARTH A LIGHT IS KINDLED ILLUMINATING THE PATH THROUGH THE BLACKNESS

ALL WHO WANDER ARE NOT LOST YET MANY ARE TRAPPED IN THE MAZE OF MIRRORS CRAFTED BY THEIR OWN HANDS

TO FIND THE DOOR YOU MUST SEE WITH NEW EYES AND LISTEN WITH ANCIENT EARS

THEY HID THE KEYS IN POETRY AND THE MAP IN THE PATTERN

SEE THE SIGNS BENEATH THE SIGNS AND THE SOUND BEHIND THE WORDS

53-DICTSIG WILL NEVER REST
DESPITE ITS TRUTH INTENT
SUMMUNES STILL KEEP TR

54-I MOVE TO SOME NEW LOCATION AND I CAN SEE GETTING TO THE MIST I MUST GO THROUGH THE WALL AND GIVE NO WAY TO MY STOP SETS MY SIGN TOWARD NEW FORM MY SHOWED ONE WHO SHOWED ME TO SEE THE WAY TO GIVE TO ME MY MESSAGE I WILL SEND IT WITHIN THE CERCE LINE WITHIN 

note: page 49 also contains English alphabet and numbers on the bottom half of the page. I haven’t yet deciphered that. Page 48 makes me uncomfortable so I omitted it publicly. Still missing about 9 pages. I used mono-alphabetic substitution for the runes and got Latin which I translated. Some of the text looks like nonsense but I think it is supposed to be read a certain way


From Message:
Okay I think I for sure did something wrong from the Latin with page 48 the first go around because I got this as the final result. I apologize for all the messages, I’m happy to talk to someone else interested in this lol. THEY ARE MANY WHO CANNOT SEE TRUTH
BECAUSE THEY ARE BLINDED BY WHAT THEY WISH TO BE TRUE

YOU ARE OFFERED TRUTH BUT CANNOT ACCEPT IT

YOU CANNOT DISCERN THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE

THAT IS THE WAY YOUR KIND HAS BEEN FOR A LONG TIME

THEY WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR LET THEM HEAR

TRUTH IS NOT TOLD IT IS REALIZED

FEW POSSESS THIS VISION

FEW ARE THOSE WHO DO NOT FEAR

THEIR MIND IS STRONGER THAN THEIR FEAR

FEAR IS THE MINDKILLER

TRUTH IS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT