Post by indigojones on Jul 17, 2020 2:09:26 GMT -5
It is interesting that the first edition had 39 Scrapbooks in it and the revised edition had 40 because 39+40= 79 which is the atomic number for Gold which keeps cropping up.
Both book covers are covered in stars and three of these stars form the constellation of 'Triangulum' meaning 'TRIANGLE' and a definite confirmer to geometry, and this is definitely not confirmation bias on my part. I started out with a triangle, namely a prism shape and when constructing this geometry on the Colorado map you do find 'Triangulum' is formed within it, so finding it in a larger format on the covers of two books is not a coincidence. The geometry on the map leads to 'Adelaide' where there is a large circular 'Cistern' which I believe was Forrest's blaze.
Armed with this knowledge it doesn't take a lot of imagination to visualize the cistern as the Zodiac wheel which consists of 12 constellations.
Scrapbook 188 'Dizzy Dean' provides clues to this idea, firstly he is featured on the cover of 'Time Magazine' which takes us back to the TIME magazine thrown in the trash. The cistern is littered with trash and TIME adds up to 47 the atomic number for Silver. The clues I see in this scrapbook come from Forrest's mention of Dizzy Dean having played for the St. Louis 'CARDINALS' it is this word CARDINALS that is important because within the Zodiac each element has its own CARDINAL sign. CARDINAL means 'of foremost importance'
The cardinal sign of the Water element is CANCER Sign 4. CANCER was the catalyst for Forrest's treasure hunt, it got him thinking about creating the treasure hunt in the first place.
The mention of 10 feet straight up relates to Cancer's opposite cardinal which is Sign 10 CAPRICORN the cardinal of the EARTH element, but if you look up the four element symbols on Google you will see that the element drawn on the Zodiac is in fact 'FIRE' a very good blaze.
This would be stretching it a bit but they are the only two signs that begin with 'C' in the Zodiac, I am thinking 'to cease' here, but it is a bit corny.
I have found that Forrest's scrapbooks do tend to have a few scattered hints in them here and there if you are on the right wavelength to pick them up.The EARTH element is the one that the word TREASURES is written to.
If you draw this EARTH element shape above the element of WATER you will see that you have formed a 'Hexagram', another symbol of magic because the largest glowing star on the cover of 'OUAW' is a 'Pentagram'
I am of the opinion that this all occurs at the end of the solution to Forrest's poem puzzle, and confirms IMO the ending solution lies within the cistern and that this is what the puzzle leads you to and not directly to the chest itself. Clues to that were within whatever was retrieved from the center of the cistern itself. It was designed to protect the true location of a chest of great value.
Forrest was banking on the fact that having come up with the cistern as the likely blaze searchers would doubt it and leave it alone unless they had got the clue to 'TIME' being in the trash and being related to SILVER.
indigo
Both book covers are covered in stars and three of these stars form the constellation of 'Triangulum' meaning 'TRIANGLE' and a definite confirmer to geometry, and this is definitely not confirmation bias on my part. I started out with a triangle, namely a prism shape and when constructing this geometry on the Colorado map you do find 'Triangulum' is formed within it, so finding it in a larger format on the covers of two books is not a coincidence. The geometry on the map leads to 'Adelaide' where there is a large circular 'Cistern' which I believe was Forrest's blaze.
Armed with this knowledge it doesn't take a lot of imagination to visualize the cistern as the Zodiac wheel which consists of 12 constellations.
Scrapbook 188 'Dizzy Dean' provides clues to this idea, firstly he is featured on the cover of 'Time Magazine' which takes us back to the TIME magazine thrown in the trash. The cistern is littered with trash and TIME adds up to 47 the atomic number for Silver. The clues I see in this scrapbook come from Forrest's mention of Dizzy Dean having played for the St. Louis 'CARDINALS' it is this word CARDINALS that is important because within the Zodiac each element has its own CARDINAL sign. CARDINAL means 'of foremost importance'
The cardinal sign of the Water element is CANCER Sign 4. CANCER was the catalyst for Forrest's treasure hunt, it got him thinking about creating the treasure hunt in the first place.
The mention of 10 feet straight up relates to Cancer's opposite cardinal which is Sign 10 CAPRICORN the cardinal of the EARTH element, but if you look up the four element symbols on Google you will see that the element drawn on the Zodiac is in fact 'FIRE' a very good blaze.
This would be stretching it a bit but they are the only two signs that begin with 'C' in the Zodiac, I am thinking 'to cease' here, but it is a bit corny.
I have found that Forrest's scrapbooks do tend to have a few scattered hints in them here and there if you are on the right wavelength to pick them up.The EARTH element is the one that the word TREASURES is written to.
If you draw this EARTH element shape above the element of WATER you will see that you have formed a 'Hexagram', another symbol of magic because the largest glowing star on the cover of 'OUAW' is a 'Pentagram'
I am of the opinion that this all occurs at the end of the solution to Forrest's poem puzzle, and confirms IMO the ending solution lies within the cistern and that this is what the puzzle leads you to and not directly to the chest itself. Clues to that were within whatever was retrieved from the center of the cistern itself. It was designed to protect the true location of a chest of great value.
Forrest was banking on the fact that having come up with the cistern as the likely blaze searchers would doubt it and leave it alone unless they had got the clue to 'TIME' being in the trash and being related to SILVER.
indigo