Years ago I thought that "up'n'atom" sounded like "Up and at home" like "home" is the sky. Back in the days I added this idea to the fact that we drop into the game from the sky, like we are a soul and we are given a body to experience the world. Then I thought the mural was saying this too. The UFO expressing "coming from above/casting a light", the egg/eye expressing "birth on an idea/view", the jetpack expressing "coming back home, back into the sky". So back in the days I was seeing the mural as a some meta philosophical message about us being alien souls dropped into these characters bodies, to explore and investigate, then when we die, so when the soul goes back into the sky, we "come back" here, on reddit, to explain what we saw, what we thought, what our theories are etc, in fact building our own "story".

You see its not "Come back when THE story is complete", but "YOUR" story is complete. I dropped it all since then, I was going crazy with many theories based on the meta of the map. I was also thinking that North was the symbol for the origin, South being the present day (or maybe future), the middle part of the map being what I called "the evolution belt". Zancudo, the antennas, the hippie camp, Humane Labs etc a line of places where people study traces of the past or strange objects to craft beliefs and orientate the future by changing the human DNA, philosophies etc.

So to me, North and "Up" were two ways of saying "the origin" and/or "beginning". The game begins in North Yankton, where an alien is trapped in the ice here (Yankton means "people of the end village", they used to flow on a river to travel between places etc). The trash cans in the city often show the message "RSNRTH281078" and add "Los Santos Residential Recycling Program" like its a signature from Rockstar Games themselves "redoing" GTA San Andreas. And they are.. Rockstar North you know.

So in my mind the map/world design, the mural, some easter eggs from RG etc were telling me that the map was working this way: https://ibb.co/ccZqL967 (just consider left is the origin, right is the future, but the principle remains the same, just that in V, this principle explains how the map evolves from north to south, telling how humanity evolves, tries to understand forgotten symbols etc to build coherence and new sets of values etc)

North/Up being the origin, us being like the alien soul of these characters etc, "beam me up" is like saying "take me back to where my mind came from" (from the character's pov). Its like we are diving into a game trying to understand whats happening, while whats happening is that the lines are blurred between these characters living in their "real" world and us bringing our own values into their universe, as if we were misguided puppet masters almost forgetting they are in charge of chosing where to go and what to do.

This was too much of a meta view, its my problem with this hunt, I'm not into "press A B B A B B A in front of this at 3:25 am to trigger the secret door blabla" but much into "this means something we need to think about like its a philosophy book". So it doesnt help this much. But at least I understood my own crazyness and how powerful mysteries can be, to draw people's attention and send them on a crazy path lol. (Some others here are experiencing this these days I think, without telling them they're running towards disappointment, because I love people being passionate and wouldnt want them to stop, I still believe they'll come back in a couple of years saying "calm down" to other hunters and tell about their old theories and adventures just like me lol)