One correction to my previous post which I remembered
belatedly had an error, the line which reads;
"Going counterclockwise, 5 steps then 4 steps then 10 steps,"
should instead correctly read;
'Going CLOCKWISE, 5 steps then 4 steps then 10 steps,'.
With that out of the way, Let's Go:
So now we know what the '19', the '29' and the (upsidedown
90) '06' were all about - steps!
What else can we figure to point to the New Orleans casque
location? Well, from the verse.. "In the middle of twenty-one".
Now, I considered quite a few things that could count
towards the twenty-one, here's a few of them - the lights
under the bridges (even today not quite sure if any do,
I don't think they have twenty-one), the number of concrete
squares on the landings floors (comes close but seems
unlikely as some of them are full squares and others are
partial sizes and it gets a bit uncertain if partial sizes
would count towards the sum). In the end, I considered that
I was probably overthinking the puzzle - the simplest thing
would be that BP continued to mean to refer to the 'steps',
so... is there a place where there are 'twenty-one' steps
or where they sum to 'twenty-one'? Yes, on the landing with
3 circular cement (or cement-like material) planter boxes.
goo.gl/maps/1a6Nd4aZDpvXhS4a9If you were standing on that landing, the contiguous steps
immediately to the northwest are 10 in number and the steps
immediately to the northeast (bridge steps 'up') are 11 in
number (10 + 11 = 21)! Interestingly, the verse phrase as
written, "In the middle of twenty-one" could be interpreted
as meaning 'in the middle of twenty things, (there is)ONE!'
That meaning also works, as to the immediate south of this
landing is a set of contiguous steps of 9 in number... so
south steps plus northeast steps (9 + 11) gives 20 steps,
in which the middle of, there is 'ONE'. One of what? What
else could it be, but one of the 3 circular planter boxes.
I'm not sure if this next point was actually inserted in the
painting or if peoples eyes are seeing something that is not
there... but some researchers have suggested that the
'flying boy' in the painting has his finger pointing to the
words (on his legs) - 'DIG JAX'. OK, but wait... 'dig jax?'...
How about instead, could any such words alternately be
meant to be 'Dig Ja
r'!
If we constrain ourselves to believing that that the casque
was buried in one of the planter boxes (circular in aspect,
shaped like a large tin jar of sweets), which 'jar' would it
be? The verse says "From end to end" "Only three stand
watch". There are on that particular landing three 'jars',
I guess you could regard them as 'standing guard'.
To clarify the following explanations, please go to this
video of that particular landing at timestamp 00:32 ,
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oo_pyVvjGkHere's an interesting thing I've noticed - if you stood
on that landing, and you lined up the light pole on that
landing with the bridge you see that is about 180 feet
(55 metres) off to the south, then those three 'jar's are
situated off your right side. Now, look at the painting,
we have a representation of a light pole (the vertical
clock needle) and we have that needle pointing directly
up towards a 'bridge', the half circle arch in the painting,
with a smaller, thinner clock needle pointing off to the
right and terminating at its tip in a tiny circle.
Art mirroring life!
I'm of the opinion that pattern matching is an essential
skill when you are trying to figure out, from what you
see in the paintings, as to where the casques are buried,
that figuring giving you 'the place where the casque
is buried' (e.g. a park or historical monument) and
perhaps clue(s) to the actual spot it is buried at.
Now, in the video cited above, timestamp 00:32 again, I
want you to look at the light pole on the landing, then
take note of the shape of the landing barrier wall from
the point of view of from the pole, back towards you.
Further, now look at the painting, oh, here for instance;
imgur.com/a/n4jXHsbTake note of all the right hand edge of the clock, see
that single obvious bright blue chip sitting against that
clock edge? What do we know about bright blue outlining
in the paintings? It's locational. So, if we take careful
note of the shape of the edge above & below that bright
blue chip, we can see that it matches the shape of the
physical landing barrier wall. Which 'jar' has the casque?
That would be the jar that, when comparing the shape
of the actual wall and the painting clock edge, would
have the blue chip analogously closest to it - that
would be the planter box 'jar' that is the
middle one
of the three planter boxes on that landing.
It would be reasonable to assume that BP buried the
casque inside the middle 'jar' adjacent to its rim, as
a scrub or small tree may have been, or may have been
expected to be, planted in the center of the circular
'jar'. The circular planter boxes are more than a metre
wide, so where around all that rim would it be buried?
Heck, I don't know, none of the various possibilities
that might point to where it is (about the rim) in the
painting strike me as being particularly conclusive.
So I will leave you there, trying to figure it out from
the painting, and mildly wonder if there is another
possibility, another
picture that BP or JJP might have
meant to also be instructive... remember page 137
of the book?;
12treasures.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/the-secret-144-scaled.jpgFood for thought.
(P.S. Let's hope the casque is still buried there,
and that no parksman ever changed the dirt - if so,
they may have regarded the casque as some kind of
voodoo artifact and discarded it in fright!
P.P.S. As far as that theory of the recurring '14'
goes, well I'm neutral - we do know, however, that
in this area in the early 2000's and possibly at the
time of BP's visit, there were fourteen circular 'jars'
{six were situated sitting in the water, as seen here};
historicaerials.com/location/29.962839033141965/-90.068568661809/2006/20Cheers)