We Found The Great Spiral Stone of The Unicornis Manuscripts!

I am not sure of how many years I worked on The Unicornis Manuscripts, but we finally solved and discovered the location of the Great Stone!  This stone marked the spot of the buried silver bound Spiral Horn by displaying a spiral blaze on it!  The poem which led us (my family and I) there is as follows:

 

The Prophecy of the True Horn

Across the voids of Time
Did these words come to me.

Into darkness will I fade,
Into a night that Man has made,
But through that gloom shall gleam the Sun
When I am lost, and again am won.

Release! Release! I call to thee
In New Lands across the sea:
Let another, on narrow pathways, come to me.

Furthest and Highest,
Yet not beyond reach.
Choose thou well a path that will teach
How the Sunken is raised
And Emptiness is filled
And a wandering heart
Can finally be stilled.

Seek the Great Stone!  Mark it well, with a sign,
That the one who shall follow Shall see it is mine,
And, seeing, shall ponder and certainly know
As the Ancients have writ: “As Above, so Below.”

And I shall guard the Source of Greatness;
Waiting by a teardrop
From neither joy nor sorrow born,
In silver bound, beneath the ground,
I am the Spiral Horn.

There is a sense of loss when a mystery is finally solved.  Maybe that is why I don’t feel at all disappointed in saying, ‘but we did not find the Silver Horn’.  That part of the search remains a mystery, and one of which I don’t mind or can’t affect.  In a note Michael Green sent me, he says, “And remember the real treasure is not the horn but the Mysterium Tremendum it forever is pointing at”.  I will have to agree.  It seems the Spiral Horn wanted to take on a story of its own.  Below is mine.  I may have solved the riddle, found the Great Stone, but am left to always ponder the Mysterium Tremendum. I’m great with this ending.

The hike to the spot is not any simple stroll on a flat meandering trail.  It involves hiking miles into the mountains with high elevation climbs and descents.  ‘Furthest and Highest’ certainly describes it.  Over the summer, I had begun to focus on the poem line of; “And I shall guard the Source of Greatness” to find a solution.  Because I felt there were connections to Proverbs throughout The Unicornis Manuscripts, I felt this poem line could refer to verse 4:23 of Proverbs and hold a great clue:

“Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.”

The ‘Source of Greatness’ that is said guarded in the poem could be seen as the ‘heart’, and then also a ‘Wellspring’; and so I focused my search area on ‘high mountain lakes or ponds’; water sources.  From the postscript in the 2008 edition of The Unicornis Manuscripts (first published in 1983), we also knew it was buried beside a body of water.  When other parts of the poem would elegantly link up to spots I had found, we felt it was worth a hike to see if any marked Great Stone was nearby.

The chance the precise area of the Horn would be covered by water was an issue we knew we had to consider too.  Soon after Michael Green buried the horn in 1983, he returned to the site and saw beavers had built a dam at the outflow.  This raised the level of the pond and caused the Great Stone, which marked the spot, to be surrounded by water.  The Silver Horn was therefore buried not only in the ground, but was then completely underwater as well.   Even still, we were hopeful in being able to at least find the Spiral Stone and know the location of the Horn if we solved the riddle. (we could dive for the horn later if wanted-lol)

Feeling we solved the riddle, we hiked to the spot. On our first visit to this location we saw the Great Stone marked with the spiral and were able to confirm it was definitely the correct place of the buried Silver Horn (images of matching stones (the one Michael took in 1985 and then ours just recently) are shown below). The area was no longer covered by water.  The beavers had since moved on and only remnants of their homes remained.  On this initial visit, however, we were not prepared or able to fully confirm whether the Horn was still there.  A few quick pokes and prods were not enough.

We planned for a later return so we could thoroughly check and be confident of the end result.

On this next visit, we began very early in the morning and walked the first 4 or 5 miles in the dark.  Our plans were to hike half in the dark and then the last few miles after sunrise and arrive at the spot shortly after.  This we did, and so we had the spot all to ourselves to find the Spiral Horn or feel confident in saying, ‘it’s missing.’

Obviously, since the headline of this article is not, ‘We found the Silver Horn!’, we feel the Horn is missing from its original location.  Because the site was underwater (and from the following images you will notice just how deep it was underwater), we play with the possibility that the Horn could have washed out when the water receded and be still there some where.  However unlikely this would seem, we are not one to say ‘that’s impossible!’   What’s also not impossible is someone else found it and just never informed Green of it.

This is why I am not prepared to give the exact location away.  If I had found the Horn, I would, but for those who still might hold hope it could be there and want to try and solve the riddle and look, I must leave it to them.  For me, the hunt for the Silver Horn is over, but not the continued search for Truth found in the mystery of the Unicorn or the Quest.  There is something about finding the Stone, and not the Horn.  I am not sure what it is, but feel it was meant to be.

I would also like to add it was a great experience and one I will use towards all future hunts.  There was a deciding moment that caused me to discover the location of where the Horn once rested.  It was letting go of a preconceived notion.  Up until the point of directing attention to ‘mountain waters’, I had held on to the idea that the horn must be hidden in an ‘relatively easy accessible’ place.  The actual site of the Horn is definitely not this.   I had actually considered the correct spot previously in my searching, but because of the distance from ‘civilization’, I dismissed it. I told my husband, ‘no way did he hide it there!’  When I decided to let the poem lead me, a circumstance happened, and confirmed the spot.  This lesson I will take forth and remember more clearly when working on the Forrest Fenn hunt and others; I will forget where I think it should be and just let the poem tell me where it is!  Something which many of us know is hard to do.

My family and I (those who could go) loved the hike to the Spiral Stone. It was full of adventure.  One of our most favorite parts (or maybe least favorite) was one we called the wipe-out zone. It was a section of trail (about 20-30 feet wide) which crossed over about a 3 foot deep marsh.  We had to cross it while walking on floating, moving, logs.  Lol. Balance was key.  My husband was the first to go, and when he stepped on the first log (feet getting soaking wet but keeping his balance), he just turned to me, and gave me a glance I won’t forget (it was one of ‘I must love you, because this is insane!).  The second time we went, this part was drained or something and had lost all its charm.  Lol.  It was a simple walk across logs.  I am not sure if we were let down or not.

It is true we did not find the buried Silver Horn, but we had found and learned other things that will help us to realize other treasures in the future.  To this we toast, “let the Quests forever keep on!”

I wish you the best of luck with whatever you seek.

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The Spiral Stone:

The side two images show the Spiral Stone that Michael Green sent me last spring, flipped.  As noticed, this was taken when the water of the Lake beside the stone was raised by the beaver dam (around 1985).  This has since changed. The beaver dam is gone.  The stone on the right is marked to show the most prominent characteristics of the stone.  These features, of course, can be seen on the image we took just recently, shown below.  When we first saw the stone, it was a lot larger than we were expecting!

It is amazing to see how high the water was at one time! (Ignore the colored stars; I was going to label the characteristics, but I think you can get the point without me doing so…lol)

My husband and I by the Spiral Stone

Our son by a rock carin.  In the book, this was considered a ‘sign of the Unicorn’