The coordinates are not real. They are the coordinates for Featherstonhaugh lake. This lake has a maximum depth of approximately 8’ DO NOT LOOK HERE FOR THE CACHE!
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 eighth cache made like this, joining Khonshu, Bast, Isis, Wepwawet, Sobek, Bes, and Osiris. If I complete this cycle then I will have another 16 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. This cache’s symbols are derived from Mark Millmore’s. You may have to do some information gathering to figure out the real-life picture’s hieroglyphic equivalent! For more information about Mark Millmore and his book, hieroglyphics, etc. you can go to: Hieroglyphs
Geb
(Keb, Seb) Egyptian earth god. Son of Shu and Tefnut. Brother and consort of the sky god Nut. Father of Osiris, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys. Geb was generally depicted lying on his back, often wearing the crown of Lower Egypt, with the naked body of Nut arched above him. In this context, he was often shown with an erect penis pointing upward toward Nut. Sometimes, however, the air god Shu was shown standing on the body of Geb, supporting Nut and perhaps separating her from Geb. His skin was often green, indicative of his role as a god of fertility and vegetation. The goose was his sacred animal and his symbol in Egyptian hieroglyphics. Geb was also said to imprison the souls of the dead, preventing them from passing on to the afterlife. The laughter of Geb was said to cause earthquakes.
Nut
(Neuth, Nuit) Egyptian goddess of the sky and of the heavens. Daughter of the air god Shu and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture, in the Heliopolitan genealogy. She was typically depicted as a woman with her elongated and naked body arching above Shu and the earth god Geb to form the heavens. Sometimes she appeared in the form of a cow whose body froms the sky and heavens. Nut was the barrier separating the forces of chaos from the ordered cosmos in this world. Her fingers and toes were believed to touch the four cardinal points or directions. The sun god Re was said to enter her mouth after setting in the evening and travel through her body during the night to be reborn from her vagina each morning. Nut was also a goddess of the dead, and the pharaoh was said to enter her body after death, from which he would later be resurrected. Her principal sanctuary was at Heliopolis.
Taken from ~ http://socsci.colorado.edu/LAB/GODS/ (link no longer valid) ~ Geb and Nut are usually depicted together, as stated above, so I thought it only fair to keep them matched up for this cache. This cache is a two-part mystery multi cache. One part for Geb and one part for Nut.
Here is your information to decipher:
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