City of the Sun Multi-cache
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Quick find for geocachers that are passing through the area on vacation. This cache is located at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. There is a parking lot near the Interpretive Center. The Museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The coordinates will take you to the first stage of the cache. The log book is in the third container. Bring a pen. The containers are others and a film canister. Please return caches as you found them. The terrain is a flat and a mowed lawn. Ground can be uneven. You do not need to step into any gardens to find a cache. Bug spray is suggested. This geocache is placed on Historic Preservation Agency managed property with permission. Do not place the following items in the Geocache: food items, inappropriate, offensive, or hazardous materials. It is the visitors responsibility to orient themselves with policies and rules pertaining to this Agency managed site. Cachers must yield the right of way to site staff and visitors. The site preserves a prehistoric Indian city which had a population of @20,000 people. The people built three types of mounds: Flat-top mounds for structures and homes of the leaders; round-top mounds for burials of elite; and ridge-top mounds for marker mounds. The leaders were believed to be descendants of the Sun(Great Spirit). They built large open plazas for ceremonies, games and markets. The center of the city was surrounded by a wall. A sun calendar was used to mark the seasonal sun rises. They used cedar trees for these marker posts. Cedar was used to build ceremonial items.
Additional Hints
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Pnpur 1: Or pnershy. Jngpu bhg sbe funec cbvagf.
Pnpur 2: Ybbx arne n fnperq gerr bs gur Vaqvnaf.
Pnpur 3: Jnyx gbjneqf gur ubzr bs gur Fha.