Mummy BROWN

[Jenny]

Just found this interesting....


In a recent article on MW, I had included 10 interesting facts about mummies...http://mysteriouswritings.com/lost-treasures-mummy-unwrapping-parties-and-10-interesting-facts-of-egyptian-mummies/

The 9th was the following:

9) Artists from the 16th through to the 19th century used to have to mix their own paints and developed a mixture of paint called ‘Mummy Brown’, which was made from ground-up Mummies. The mixture was composed from white pitch and myrrh, mixture with ground mummy to produce a rich brown pigment. The paint was commonly used amongst the Pre-Raphaelite painters such as William Beechey and Martin Drölling. Although the process is no longer used, the actual shade of paint is still called ‘Mummy Brown’ and is now a combination of kaolin, quartz, goethite and hematite, the hematite and goethite.




Forrest was surrounded by art and might be aware of this Mummy Brown.... maybe there is a connection to 'Home of Brown' to mummy Brown-- mummy joe--- cave... put in below a cave perhaps....??

What do you think?

[Jenny]

Here is the link to Scrapbook 92 which talks about Mummy Joe and Mummy Cave:



dalneitzel.com/2014/08/24/mummy_cave/

[goldwatch]

Jenny, you may be on to something there.
My eyes are drawn to this:
"With a small light as my only companion I climbed up and in, and sat on my rock against the back wall. In the lonely silence nothing was moving but the wind that whispered its way through the trees, down the river, and past the cave."

Could that be directions? Forrest has said that the treasure is not in a cave, but that doesn't mean a cave can't be part of the map.
Then again, there's this from Merrium-Webster:

2 : a usually underground chamber for storage
a wine cave
also : the articles stored there

3 : a place providing privacy or seclusion from others
When a friend dragged her out of her cave to go salsa dancing for the first time, the rhythms … stepped into her soul …— Leslie Guttman —
see also man cave
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So, Forrest uses words in unusual ways, and we can expand the meaning of a cave, in my opinion.

[lookinup]

Great subject, Jenny!

I don't believe that Mummy 'Cave' is a cave at all; but is instead a rock shelter/shallow alcove.

I recall reading how Forrest and his family would enjoy "special lunch respites at Mummy Cave when returning to Texas after summer vacations in Yellowstone."

A 'natural' HOB, IMO.

[npsbuilder]

With ff an expert of Indian Culture and I'm still a rookie, home of Brown with B capitalized says to me The Brown Storytellers is what he is referring to. Or to make it a long stretch and ff serving in the Air Force the same time Gen. Brown did could refer to Cheyenne Mountain. He was the brainchild of NORAD.

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Nov 8, 2018 12:54:41 GMT -5 goldwatch said:

Jenny, you may be on to something there.
My eyes are drawn to this:
"With a small light as my only companion I climbed up and in, and sat on my rock against the back wall. In the lonely silence nothing was moving but the wind that whispered its way through the trees, down the river, and past the cave."

Could that be directions? Forrest has said that the treasure is not in a cave, but that doesn't mean a cave can't be part of the map.
Then again, there's this from Merrium-Webster:

2 : a usually underground chamber for storage
a wine cave
also : the articles stored there

3 : a place providing privacy or seclusion from others
When a friend dragged her out of her cave to go salsa dancing for the first time, the rhythms … stepped into her soul …— Leslie Guttman —
see also man cave
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So, Forrest uses words in unusual ways, and we can expand the meaning of a cave, in my opinion.

Kinda makes me think of Brown setting in it's home like a crack in the hill side where heavy loads and water high sits.