Sixteen prior Maya Temple puzzles discussed Maya culture. You now read vegisimal numbers and you learned their month was twenty days.
The beautiful eyes of the Maya I’ve met remind me of a favorite SciFi story. When Bradbury was thirty, he published “Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed,” about a family that escaped Earth’s nuclear wars. Ray Bradbury died June 5, 2012.
I began reading Science Fiction in Junior High School, after devouring all of the Mythology books. I ate “The Martian Chronicles” by Bradbury around age 14, as my introduction to the genre, marveling that it was a fifth copyright published in 1950. I was insatiable after that. Bradbury imagined colonies on Mars, when satellites were more than five years in his future. Third planet visitors morph into Martians, including golden eye color.
Meeting a Mexican in 1993, without hesitating when I asked his heritage, he said “Mayan”. He had golden eyes and dark skin. With population over six million at the beginning of 2000, these modern Mayans are proud to have managed their separate heritage in their third world country. I’ve wondered if their heritage might be from another world. Who can say whether life on this singular Earth seven centuries ago was planted by an advanced civilization?
Earthlings took five decades from June twentieth, nineteen sixty nine’s “One small step for a man…” to achieve the technology for “Curiosity” to land and explore the surface of Mars.
You probably noticed that none of the prior sixteen Maya Temple puzzles provided hints with white text. There are no hints here either.
Remember to write down the Maya number symbols found in the log book, or on the lid, that is needed to determine the coordinates of the final cache of this series. After conversion, ten are labeled N and are each a four-digit number. Ten are labeled W and are each a three-digit number. The final cache of this series, A New Era, provides the final numbers and instructions how to add to the prior twenty to determine its coordinates.
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Congratulations, and an honorary extra star of difficulty, go to CP Grower and to Tobias & Petronella who solved this cache without hints.