The coordinates are not real. They are the coordinates for the parking lot of the Greenport Town Park. The kids can come and play or take the hike with you on your quest to find the small container for Isis. I saw signs that said, “No Dogs” but I do not know if that is for the whole park or just the area that the kids play. Take Fido at your own discretion.
My friend/co-worker of some 16 years first suggested hieroglyphics for use in a cache and that is where the craze started. Blame him, blame Doobie, the man nick-named as such since his real name is “Michael McDonald”, famed singer of the Doobie Brothers.
To do this cache, you will first have to decode the text written in Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Do not fret, I will even give you a site that will help you. It is simple substitution after that. This is the fifth cache made like this, joining Khonshu, Bast, Anubis, and Wepwawet. If I complete this cycle then I will have quite a few more caches! Yikes! I better get busy!!
To help you out a bit, I will even give you a link to help you decipher what you see below. The symbols used were used by permission of Mark Millmore. You can find out more information about him and his book, hieroglyphics, etc. at: Hieroglyphs
I have placed periods between words to help you out a bit. Also, some letters are not represented in hieroglyphs so I had to take certain liberties with some words. If it looks funny, then this is the reason. If you have any questions/problems/comments, then please email me.
Isis (Aset, Eset) "Throne". Egyptian mother goddess. Daughter of Geb and Nut according to the Heliopolitan genealogy. Sister and wife of Osiris. Mother of Horus. She was depicted in human form, crowned either by a throne or by cow horns enclosing a sun disk. A vulture was also sometimes incorporated in her crown. She is sometimes depicted as a kite above the mummified body of Osiris. As the personification of the throne, she was an important source of the pharaoh's power. Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but the most important sanctuaries were at Giza and at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta. Isis later had an importan cult in the Greco-Roman world, with sanctuaries at Delos and Pompeii. Her Latin epithet was Stella Maris, or "star of the sea". It was Isis who retrieved and reassembled the body of Osiris after his murder and dismemberment by Seth. In this connection she took on the role of a goddess of the dead and of funeral rites. Isis impregnated herself from the corpse and subsequently gave birth to Horus. She gave birth in secrecy at Khemmis in the Nile delta and hid the child from Seth in the papyrus swamps. Horus later defeated Seth and became the first ruler of a united Egypt. Isis, as mother of Horus, was by extension regarded as the mother and protectress of the pharaohs. The relationship between Isis and Horus may also have influenced the Christian conception of the relationship between Mary and the infant Jesus Christ. The depiction of the seated holding or suckling the child Horus is certainly reminiscent of the iconography of Mary and Jesus.
Taken from ~ http://socsci.colorado.edu/LAB/GODS/ (link no longer valid)~
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