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I know how the tome works, but what do the inscriptions on the counting cube, writing cube, and skull mean or represent? Are their inscriptions used as a code for something? Is it just an Easter egg, or is it apophenia? Again, I'm only interested in the meaning of these patterns, not their symbolic translation.
By turning all of the mini-skulls (hold X) so all of them are facing away from you at the same time, so will the giant skull, revealing the back of it's head.
As discovered by a person on the Xbox360Achievements forum in this post, this puzzle can be solved just like the first puzzle in the same room. The following picture shows the floor of the room, which can be seen in first person view:
The first puzzle required a button input sequence while standing on the square with no line in it (circled in blue in the picture). This puzzle similarly requires standing on the square with a line in it (circled in green in the picture) and inputting the following button sequence.
down down LT RT RT A up
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I don't know if there's any meaning to the skull cube.
For the number and writing cubes, I cannot definitively prove that there is no additional meaning behind them, but there does not seem to be any evidence implying otherwise. Taken at face value, they're clearly tools for Fez denizens to stamp out numbers and letters. This is implied by: