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[konamouse]

Shall I let The (new) Oracle know?

[pancito]

/delurk

Awesome, Jacks.

[Jacks]

LOL @ Pancito, and thanks

I don't see why not, konamouse. Go ahead if you would like I emailed Bobbie to let her know we got it, but that's the only person I've told.

[konamouse]

I'll have to do it tonight (no access to MySpace from work).

[konamouse]

Sorry for the double post. There was an email waiting for me when I got home.

[Jacks]

Email From Bobbie

[WolfHawk]

Not sure how much of this needs to be spoilered. Not that I can figure out how to spoiler the image!! Mod help please?
[edit - no reason to spoiler this, the puzzle has been solved on the previous page and Jacks already posted an image above; however, any way you can link to a smaller version of this image? - kona]

This map shows the latitude and longitude Jacks translated. She does say it's "near al Amarah."

The map of the area is here:

You all take a look, I'm not having much luck finding anything on it.

I did find a reference to a Gazelle Lake but it isn't in that area. There is an Egyptian story about a pharaoh meeting with his men at a Gazelle Lake to prepare for battle. This may or may not be relevant, though.

Reference book 1

Reference book 2

Sorry for the long URLs.
[edit - fixed the urls with imbedding - kona]

[konamouse]

[WolfHawk]

Sorry, I forgot to say that I spent a couple of hours with the map last night and couldn't even find the area Jacks found. I thought there might be something else.

[Jacks]

I'll post the pic of the area where that little lake is. It's due west of the arrow looking lake. I found what I think is the human figure and Hopi rabbit with no ears lakes, and the gazelle head looking lake is just SW of the rabbit looking lake. The lakes are in the Al Amarah area.

It's the only thing I have found that is remotely close to what they are looking for. I'm going to send the pics to Bobbie as well.

Edit: Sorry about the red text, I didn't realize it was that hard to read until after I had finished it.

[konamouse]

Kronos480BC LJ post

[WolfHawk]

Gak! Please tell me the lesbians ride in to save her from his harlequin romance prose!!!!!!

[degravedi]

I just wanted to pop by to say that I've been working on this too, but really haven't been making any progress. It doesn't help that depending on which level of zoom you're on in Google Maps, some of the images are from rainy season and some are from dry, changing the shapes of the lakes.

I did want to say "WAY TO GO JACKS!" for the puzzle solve. And I definitely think that the Gazelle lake looks like a gazelle, just laying down with it's head turned back. Kinda like this: link

[Jacks]

Thanks

I have scoured that whole area trying to find something that seemed a little more fitting, but that lake is still the closest thing I can find to a gazelle. I sent both pics to Bobbie and am waiting to hear something back from her. I was hoping that since she mentioned the "human figure" and "Hopi rabbit" shaped lakes that the gazelle lake would be in the same vicinity.

[Prophecy]

I've had a look at the maps and found this lake near Al Amarah that looks kinda like a gazelle.