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[georgecraigmanning]

Updated theory of image 12/verse 10

Looking at image 12...
The arched shape of image 12 matches the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge tower.
Colored dots sure do resemble the Massimo Vignelli designed NYC Subway Map of the 1970’s. The colored dots representing each train line are spot on. Parks on the map were dark grey squares (same color as image 12’s clock/Ft Hamilton Triangle Park) and the water surrounding the land was tan (same color as image 12’s squares with seagull-eagle & Lady Liberty’s head). Notice the square panels on the map?
This map was the number one souvenir for everyone in the world that visited NYC.
Eagle-seagull’s head is spot on match for Art-Deco eagles on top of Ellis Island Ferry Building. The original name of Ellis Island was Gull Island (explaining the body of a gull) after the birds that were its only inhabitants.
Reddish rectangle framed in light gray looks very much like the entrance to the Fort Hamilton Library. In 1980 the door was reddish with a limestone door surround.
I don’t believe the onion domes are Ellis Island, because Ellis island has four. Russian Orthodox churches have three (as in image 12), five or in one case I know of, twelve onion domes. I believe image 12’s church is linked to Russian immigration, but more importantly, Brooklyn’s long standing nickname... ‘The Borough of Churches’.
I believe the water/waves represent the exact neighborhood of Brooklyn, Bay Ridge.
The three strange, almost egg-shaped water droplets below the lady’s robe are a great match to the two lights on each side of the entrance of the Fort Hamilton Library, and the ornate street light in the center near the curb. The faceted jewel is the prize.
Finally if you INVERT the lady in the robe, you get a V. The V matches a support to the library’s gate and I believe the location of the casque.
So...Lady Liberty, Ellis Island...Immigration. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge...We’re in NY. Colored dots/NYC Subway Map... we’re in NYC. Orthodox church...We’re in the borough of Brooklyn. Water/waves...We’re in the neighborhood of Bay Ridge.
Reading verse 10...
-In the shadow of the grey giant...
The grey giant is the Verrazzano Bridge.
-Find the arm that extends over the slender path...
The arm is the Verrazzano Bridge deck and the slender path is The Narrows.
-In summer you’ll often hear a whirring sound cars abound...
Helicopter tours? Roadway of bridge is actually 12 feet lower in summer due to thermal expansion and the traffic causes a whirring sound below.
Below is Fort Hamilton, literally in the shadow of the bridge.
-Although the sign nearby speaks of indies native...
The sign nearby is the sign at Fort Hamilton Triangle Park, several blocks away.
Hamilton was a British West Indies Native.
-The natives still speak of him of hard word in 3 vols...
The natives are Native New Yorkers.
Hard word...more later.
3 vols...more later.
-Take twice as many east steps as the hour or more...
The images clock shows 11 o’clock, so I walk 22 west steps(The crosswalk from Ft Hamilton Triangle to Ft Hamilton Library is exactly 22 steps). Perhaps this is where INVERT comes in...West, because I believe images 1 and 12 may be sister/mirror images (east coast-west coast, VZ Bridge-GG Bridge, NYC-SF, immigration). Keep in mind that in the Chicago and Cleveland finds, the ‘out of order hypothesis’ and the ‘reverse/backwards hypothesis’ were used in the find.
-From the middle of one branch of the V look down and see simple roots in rhapsodic mans soil...
Branch...more later.
Upon walking my 22 steps, I’m facing a 4 foot tall iron V. The V is a support to a gate. The gate surrounds the Fort Hamilton Library.
There’s an interesting placard in the vestibule of the library ...
In the 1890’s Mrs. Gelstin of Shore road, with a capital of faith and 5 dollars, donated a collection of books to open the Fort Hamilton Free Library...
Simple roots.
In 1901 it became a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, and in 1905 with a 1.6 million dollar gift from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, moves to its present building. The Fort Hamilton Library became one of Brooklyn’s first Carnegie Libraries.
Carnegie is probably best known for Carnegie Hall, one of the most prestigious venues in the world of music...
Rhapsodic man’s soil.
-Or gaze north toward the isle of B...
Gazing north is Bedloe’s Island, renamed Liberty Island in 1956.
In the Travel/ Discovery Chanel episode, Preiss’s daughters were asked:”Is there any doubt in your mind that one of the boxes are here (NYC)?” They replied: “So he did say in a very fatherly way”: “Where would daddy bury a treasure?”...Library.
Hard word...Library.
3 vols...Library!
Branch...Library!
The Native New Yorkers still speak of Hamilton of hard word in 3 Vols...
Fort(1) Hamilton(2) Library(3)!
Perhaps the capitalization of the V serves as a visual marker too.
The center of woman’s robe has the image of a lion, which is the symbol of a library to every New Yorker I know.
Perhaps the lion’s face is a nod to Patience and Fortitude, the twin lions outside the New York Public Library and NYC mascots (thanks Gail).
Co-authors Sean Kelly & Ted Mann are from Montreal, believed to be a casque location. John Jude Palencar was born 20 min away from the Cleveland find. Byron Preiss was born in Brooklyn.
So, V marks the spot!