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The Secret (a treasure hunt) / Verse 04
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Verse 04

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General notes on Verse 4

  • This verse was linked to Image 4 and was used to dig up the casque in Cleveland, Ohio in 2004.
  • The casque was buried in Cleveland's Greek Garden, which is one of the 30 or so gardens that make up the Cleveland Cultural Gardens in Rockefeller Park.  The address for the Greek Garden is 1000 East Boulevard.  (Garden map)
  • The proposed solution for this casque is given on the Image 4 Verse 4 Solution page.

 

 

Lines Interpretation(s)

Beneath two countries

 

This line isn't clear.  There are several other cultural gardens to the north of the Greek one, so "beneath" doesn't mean south on the map.  The line may simply be saying that the casque was buried in one country (the U.S.) but in a garden intended to showcase another country (Greece).

 

As the road curves

 

This line also doesn't have a clear explanation.  East Boulevard, where the garden is located, curves continuously.  There are no straight sections.  Parkgate Avenue makes a horseshoe bend nearby, but that road passes between the Italian and Slovak gardens.  This clue doesn't seem to provide much information.

 

In a rectangular plot

Beneath the tenth stone

From right to left

Beneath the ninth row from the top

Of the wall including small bricks

   These are explicit directions to follow up the hill to the back of the wall in the Grecian Garden, where there is a sunken planter at the location specified by the verse.

 

The instructions are remarkably specific about where to dig. However, could be interpreted differently depending on whether the viewer was facing toward or away from the wall, thus pointing to opposite ends of the planter. 

Seven steps up you can hop

From the bottom level

 

 

Socrates, Pindar, Apelles

 

The names of many luminaries of ancient Greece are chiseled into the Pylon Monument.
Free speech, couplet, birch This refers, respectively, to Socrates (died for free speech), Pindar (a poet), and Apelles (a painter; "birch brush").

To find casque's destination

Seek the columns

For the search.

  The entrance to the Grecian Garden is marked by two columns that appear in Image 4.

The columns link Verse 4 with Image 4.

 

 

Other Notes:

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Comments (3)

Lori Sobota said

at 5:44 pm on Mar 3, 2018

"Beneath two countries" -- I think this might mean when you're on MLK drive travelling North, you can look up and see both Italian and Greek cultural gardens on the hillside high above you. Right at that point, you proceed "As the road curves", meaning you're meant not to continue on MLK, but to circle around right, follow the curve clockwise and up the hill at it turns off of MLK onto East Blvd, continue following the curve all the way to the first clue in the Italian Cultural gardens, which is that fountain (the Centaur is holding in the image). There is also a statue in the Italian Garden that has a face that looks like the Centaur, but I did not see any Centaur there or anywhere nearby. The next thing you see are those distinct columns (the two gardens are only about 100 feet from each other), walk forward and you then see the rectangular wall with the names carved in it. Then you have to walk around the back of the wall and down some steps, and then back up the "seven steps" and there is the planter, that you need to "hop" up to. From there you would follow the instructions "In a rectangular plot ...."

Lori Sobota said

at 5:52 pm on Mar 3, 2018

This makes me wonder if this was meant to honor both Greek and Italian immigrants, since he incorporated so many elements of both gardens into the image. Especially, if it is true that the head of the centaur is from an Italian statue. Sadly, I did note that there was a lot of damage and vandalism in the Italian garden =\

Makes me wonder if there could have been a Centaur in the Greek garden at some point.

Fandango said

at 11:43 am on Jun 2, 2022

I think people in general overcomplicate the whole puzzle. The centaur originates from Greek mythology and is a simple nod to the Greek garden. The face of the statue similar to one in the Italian garden. Press is trying to get us to see the view between the columns and hence into smoking gun visuals.

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