I asked Urk if the kanji "sky orb dawn light" could be interpreted as "Morning Star" or "Rising Sun" and he said they were both very close.

Ideas anyone?

-Hedge.

Asked a few good friends who are familiar with Japanese kanji and they said the second character is "pearl", not "orb". So the first two translate to something like, "Heavenly Pearl".

They were unsure of the third character as it's tough to make out. It probably is "dawn", but one of my friends suggested it might be a seal, not a character.

The last character doesn't look too much like "light" to me, as it doesn't seem to have a jutting line in the upper right, and the lower right 'hook' seems to be a straight line. It could be though, it's a little tough to make out, tbh.

Anyway, hope that helps a bit. :)

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I asked Urk if the kanji "sky orb dawn light" could be interpreted as "Morning Star" or "Rising Sun" and he said they were both very close.

Ideas anyone?

-Hedge.

Venus has historically been known as the morning star; with the apparent planet-hopping it would fit about as well as anything else.

Awesome! I've been waiting for the images!

and I thought I responded to threads late ;)
Anyway I didn't think Kaboris's version, which seemed to basically be the one people were working from, was right (I didn't see the horizontal line or the diagonal line in the upper left). That means the previous translation efforts still apply-- assuming these are the same two characters anyway.The left one is clearly the same as the second one from the left in the older shots, I'm not completely sure about the other one.
Regardless, these two characters are also on the pipe or round hallway on the left of the lower picture.