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Post by TheCoyWonder on Sept 30, 2019 22:31:33 GMT -5
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Post by goldenchild on Sept 30, 2019 23:13:57 GMT -5
Upon the path to the lost city of gold
Is a jewel bright and pure
Hidden ‘neath the crystal waters
Flowing swift and sure
To find the gem that is hidden inside this mystic land
You must first locate where life began
And men stand hand in hand
Then southward gaze on glowing lights
Guarded by beasts of ancient time
Concatenate the primaries
And only keep the primes
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Post by efanton on Oct 1, 2019 7:26:49 GMT -5
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Post by goldenchild on Oct 1, 2019 9:09:31 GMT -5
Right off the bat Coronado's expedition comes to mind. He traveled up from Mexico along the Arizona/New Mexico border and eventually into Kansas. They were looking for Cíbola and the other 7 cities of gold. They mostly lie in New Mexico. Maybe we are meant to dig thru the natives creation legends are f that area and maybe find a Petroglyph with man hand in hand. Then look south towards a big city in the distance? How numbers will come out of that...I have no clue.
Also side note, there is a town of Eden in Arizona. Just north west of swift water pass and artesia. Could be a possible lead too.
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Post by efanton on Oct 1, 2019 9:26:05 GMT -5
lol, you beat me to it. Seven Cities of Gold en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Cities_of_GoldThe Seven Cities of Gold, also known as the Seven Cities of Cibola, is a myth that was popular in the 16th century. It is also featured in several works of popular culture. According to legend, the seven cities of gold could be found throughout the pueblos of the New Mexico Territory.[1] The cities were Hawikuh, Halona, Matsaki, Quivira, Kiakima, Cibola, and Kwakina. While there have always been mentions of a seventh city, no evidence of a site has been found.[2] Next step I guess is to read up on the myths of the Indian tribes in South West USA |
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Post by efanton on Oct 1, 2019 9:29:18 GMT -5
In the Stephen King book The Stand, Trashcan Man is instructed by Randall Flagg to meet him in Cibola, which is later revealed to be Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, city of gold?
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Post by captnkush on Oct 1, 2019 11:29:52 GMT -5
National treasure "book of secrets" city of gold was mt Rushmore.
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Post by captnkush on Oct 1, 2019 11:48:23 GMT -5
Also there is a el Dorado in Arkansas and Texas and possibly a couple other states as well. This riddle is super cool.it sounds on the surface that you go from the amazon to Africa but its all in the u.s..i like it .just the way it reads sounds like a adventure.
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Post by goldenchild on Oct 1, 2019 12:33:08 GMT -5
Ya I love these kinds of hunts. More inline to what a real treasure hunt feels like. Going over maps, researching random towns and sites and learning a lot of history as you go. This is much more my cup of tea than code breaking.
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Post by captnkush on Oct 1, 2019 12:37:14 GMT -5
Totally agree
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Post by goldenchild on Oct 1, 2019 14:44:41 GMT -5
so what’s up captnkush....time to spill the beans! What did you find on the website you stumbled onto that was for this hunt??? I’m sure I’m not the only curious one! Don’t make me hack your browsing history to find out! Jk |
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Post by captnkush on Oct 1, 2019 16:54:20 GMT -5
Wish i could but lukas said he'd chop my fingers off .lol as far as my history goes its pretty much all been deleted .(too much looking for x marks the spot).anyway happy hunting all . Im waiting till this one is over b4 i join patreon. Just in case it can be argued that something i saw gives me a unfair advantage. (Wich for the record i dont believe it does).im still happy to help with the riddle and any thoughts i have about it ill happily post. Good luck all
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Post by efanton on Oct 3, 2019 15:38:21 GMT -5
Could this be a reference to the Carlsbad Caverns That's the place they found the huge gypsum crystals originally under water before the caves were drained. They are in New Mexico too. Carlsbad Caverns |
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Post by goldenchild on Oct 3, 2019 22:33:50 GMT -5
So I’ve been searching kind of broadly on maps looking for cities, springs mountains etc. that could have meaning towards the clues. But I got to thinking today of why he was so specific when he said we have to utilize google maps specifically when there are several online maps that could be utilized the same way. Why not google earth? What makes google maps different? Then it dawned on me...their street view. You can zoom all the way down and spin around and read store signs, billboards and the like. What if some or all of these clues are meant to be found while in street view at a particular location, like on the strip in Las Vegas. I had thought that the Luxor might be a fit because of its constant glowing light that you can see far off in the desert, and the likely hood of two ancient beast statues guarding it (there’s not). And I mainly wanted to test google street view out to see what kind of info I could actually pull out from the surrounding environment. I could have hand copied every hieroglyph off of their obelisk easily. After seeing that I’m leaning towards the final clues are going to be found in street view. But like I’ve said before...I’m wrong more than I’m right when it comes to treasure hunting!
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Post by efanton on Oct 4, 2019 4:35:51 GMT -5
So I’ve been searching kind of broadly on maps looking for cities, springs mountains etc. that could have meaning towards the clues. But I got to thinking today of why he was so specific when he said we have to utilize google maps specifically when there are several online maps that could be utilized the same way. Why not google earth? What makes google maps different? Then it dawned on me...their street view. You can zoom all the way down and spin around and read store signs, billboards and the like. What if some or all of these clues are meant to be found while in street view at a particular location, like on the strip in Las Vegas. I had thought that the Luxor might be a fit because of its constant glowing light that you can see far off in the desert, and the likely hood of two ancient beast statues guarding it (there’s not). And I mainly wanted to test google street view out to see what kind of info I could actually pull out from the surrounding environment. I could have hand copied every hieroglyph off of their obelisk easily. After seeing that I’m leaning towards the final clues are going to be found in street view. But like I’ve said before...I’m wrong more than I’m right when it comes to treasure hunting! I was posting something very very similar to this about 3am local time when we lost power here in Ireland where I live. In case you didnt know we are getting hit by the tail end of a hurricane at the moment. Nothing as serious as what the USA gets but trees and power lines are down in some parts of the country. Anyway I too was thinking why Lukas insisted on google maps and not Bing, MapQuest or one of the other vendors. Like you I came to the conclusion it could be the street view, but it could also be GPS coordinates. Think about it if I asked you to give my the coordinate of that Luxor hotel in Las Vegas, well that hotel is pretty big, could you give the the coordinate to say the merest 10 meters? The hotel is far bigger than 10 square metres, (100 square metres even), so its quite possible that the reason is that we are expected by Lukas to pick up the GPS position from a google map placemarker so that any GPS position would be consistent for everyone taking part in the hunt. sound like a mathematically instruction for us to perform. If it was regarding a GPS position then the accuracy, or more importantly consistency, of the locations used by everyone involved would be crucial in order that we arrive at the same result as Lukas. It strike me that we are looking for 3 locations, each location a result of each stanza. If we then take the exact GPS positions as given by google maps, and manipulate them, (possibly taking the Northing and Westing to the nearest minute), then stripping the prime numbers from each and combining them, that would give us a final coordinate that should lead to either a google map marker, or as you point out a position from which we must use google street view |
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