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on June 5, 2016 at 10:45:03 am
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General notes on Image 3
- This is the image for January and the immigration reference is to England.
- This image is thought to be linked to Verse 11 and to a hunt in one of two areas on the northern end of Roanoke Island, NC: the Elizabethan Gardens or the Waterside Theatre. Both possibilities are located within the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and are run by private, nonprofit groups, rather than the National Park Service.
- Please note: The guidelines for The Secret specifically rule out any possibility that a casque could be buried in "any public or private flower bed." That would rule out all of the maintained flower beds at the Elizabethan Gardens, so please do not do any digging there. We don't want to create problems for the gardeners who maintain that beautiful space. There is also no chance that the casque is buried in any of the undisturbed and archaeologically-significant areas of the historic site, so please do not dig there either. The casque will only be buried in a place where there has already been a great deal of digging and where further digging will not create a problem.
Specific Observations
Please record your notes about this image in the list below. Use the letter/number grid to identify the point on the image that you're describing. To keep things organized, 1) please start each observation with a letter/number combo (in bold), and 2) add new observations in the right place on the list to keep everything alphabetized.
- A3-E8 - The arch is nearly identical to the one at the entrance of the Elizabethan gardens.
- E5 - Some people have suggested that the faceplate of the helmet resembles the face of a horse and may be a hint toward the town of Nags Head, directly across the water from Roanoke Island.
- G1 - The thumb and forefinger of the knight's right hand appear to be spread apart to measure something. The fact that this hand extends outside the margin of the picture might suggest that we are supposed to apply that measurement to some other image.
- G2 - The strange hook hanging from the knight's right wrist could be a scythe or it could represent Cape Cod. It could also be a match for the blade of a halberd on display in the Visitor Center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site.
- H5 - The jewel is a garnet, the birth stone for January.
- H7 - This bell is very similar to the one on display outside the Paul Revere House in Boston.
- H8 - The crack in the wall may be in the shape of Roanoke Island (see below).
- H9 & I2 - Two skeleton keys are hanging from the suit of armor.
- I10 - The pocket watch hanging from the chain shows a time of 1:00, indicating the month of January.
- J3 - The flower is a white carnation, the birth flower for January. It is also similar to the flowering dogwood, the north Carolina flower
- J8 - This bell is very similar to a Japanese temple bell on display in the Back Bay Fens of Boston.
- K1-2 - The wall may show the number 54.
- K5 - The cylindrical pedestal under the suit of armor resembles the pedestal under the statue of Virginia Dare at the Elizabethan Gardens.
- L2 - There appears to be a Christian cross carved into the stonework, similar to the cross in the lion's mane in Image 2. If the symbol is connected to the play The Lost Colony, performed at the Waterside Theatre, this might be a reference to the cross used in the baptism scenes. Alternatively, it might refer to the mast and yardarms that move behind the stage as props to represent ships coming and going.
- M8 & M9 - The spoon in the lower right corner represents Pear Pad Road, which runs to the northwest corner of the Fort Raleigh National Historic site. The sphere on the spoon represents a traffic circle, while the object hanging from the spoon is the "pad" (or flattened stem) of a prickly pear cactus (see below).
- O7-P9 - The wall may show the number 56
Other Notes
- This figure in the suit of armor may be a representation of the Red Cross Knight, a character is The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.
- The pose of the armor in this picture may be related in some way to a scene in The Lost Colony when a Native American sits on top of a pole with his arms outstretched:
(Photo by Snassek on Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.)
- The armor shown here may be related in some way to the armor on display in the visitors center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. The armor and the crossed halberds can be seen in the background of this picture:
(Photo by Jasperdo on Flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.)
- The three bells hanging from the armor appear to be a reference to Albert Quentin Bell who designed the Waterside Theatre at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. The Waterside Theatre is where The Lost Colony is performed during the summer months. The theatre is still described as "The House that Skipper Bell Built" and there has been a memorial plaque with Albert Bell's name at the back of the theatre since 1967.
- This image has many geometrical connections to Image 11. The two may be connected in some way.
- This is the only image where the contents extend outside the margin.
- These words appear on the Fort Raleigh historical marker:
On this site, in July – August, 1585 (O.S.), colonists, sent out from England by Sir Walter Raleigh, built a fort, called by them “The New Fort in Virginia." These colonists were the first settlers of the English race in America. They returned to England in July, 1586, with Sir Francis Drake. Near this place was born, on the 18th of August, 1587, Virginia Dare, the first child of English Parents born in America – daughter of Ananias Dare and Eleanor White, his wife, members of another band of colonists sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587. On Sunday, August 20, 1587, Virginia Dare was baptised. Manteo, the friendly Chief of the Hatteras Indians had been baptised on the Sunday preceding. These baptisms are the first known celebrations of a Christian Sacrament in the territory of the thirteen original United States.”
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Latitude / Longitude Hints
There appears to be a "36" formed by the cracks in the wall at the lower right corner of the window.
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There appears to be a "75" formed by the patterns of the cracks in the lower right corner.
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The northern half of Roanoke Island stretches from approximately 35.89°N, 75.64°W to 35.94°N, 75.73°W. The rounding doesn't really make sense, but the coordinates are very close to the numbers in the picture.
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Questions, questions, questions...
- If the bells are a reference to Albert Quentin Bell, what is the symbolism of the keys?
- If the knight is measuring something with his right hand, does that distance match up to anything else?
- Does anyone have a close-up picture of the halberd on display in the Visitor Center at the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site?
- What are the meanings of the bubbles and the statue?
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