Canonical cipher 4: Z32 vol.3. Spatial attributes of the Z32 map I

 

Canonical cipher 4_Z32 vol_3_Spatial attributes of the Z32 map I

1.                       Introduction

The purpose of this article is to proceed into evaluating the canonical crime scenes based on select action:

1.        Employ Mount Diablo as a meridian, as per the killer’s Z32 map instructions.

2.        Incorporate all crime scenes in a singular topological graph.

3.        Insert the shift of “MAG N” as per the killer’s instructions.

4.        Evaluate the outcome and draw conclusions.

 

2.                       Angular properties of canonical crime scenes: 17 degrees shift

At the beginning of this section, I re-introduce the two Tables from vol.2. Table I features the canonical crime scenes sorted in “chronological order”, along with coordinates, distance in km and miles from South Peak of Mt Diablo and the angle in degrees. The table also provides the respective astrological sign correlated to each crime scene.

Table I. Canonical crime scenes distance and angle from Mt Diablo

 

It is noted that the first two Solano County crime scenes fall into the Aquarius sign angle region [3] (300-330 degrees). The LB crime scene (Napa County) falls into Pisces [4] (330-360 degrees), whereas both “start” and “end” of Stine’s “death route” fall into Sagittarius [5] (240-270 degrees).

If we sort the canonical crime scenes into an “angular order”, starting from Grid North and moving clock-wise from “0”, we get the chain of Figure 1.

Figure 1. Grid-North-clockwise angular sorting of canonical crime scenes

Table II. Canonical crime scenes distance and angle from Mt Diablo – MAG N shift

 

Table II features the canonical crime scenes shifted by 17 degrees clockwise introduction of Magnetic North). It also features the new attributed astrological signs based on the new angle as per the 360 Zodiac Circle. Only LB maintains its original sign. With the introduction of the 17 degrees MAG N shift, all three canonical crime scenes where the victims were couples are aligned into the mutable water sign of Pisces [4]. For the fourth canonical crime, the killer breaks two patterns: the “couples attack” and the “Sabbath time frame”, since Stine’s murder took place after the sundown of Saturday October 11, 1969. Both MAG N and PH shift into Capricorn [6].

    3.        First two canonical crime scenes (Solano County)

The shift from Aquarius to Pisces for the two first canonical crime scenes (Solano County) is a shift from a sign of air (yet a cup bearer) to the mutable sign of water. I am not looking for a “hidden meaning” in the clouds or to provide speculation on the killer’s real or projected “astrological beliefs”. What I am trying to do is (1) include and reference all datasets, whatever they may be and (2) use datasets as piece of codes, where the “celestial” may provide information (or clues) about the “terrestrial” – the killer’s crimes were very much real, tangible, and of this realm.

In this context, the implication here might very well be the waterflooding process used in mining and quarries. The 885 Lake Herman Road Rock Quarry comes in mind, strategically located between the two canonical murder sites and operated, during the canonical timeframe by Syar Industries. I will make further comments on the rock quarry and the said business (and the Syar family) in another article.

The interest in this angle is two-fold: from a historical perspective, the background story of the rock quarry affected both White Sulphur Springs (renamed as Blue Rock Springs) and the Lake Herman Road Reservoir, with water flow manipulation and concerns of mercury poisoning.

From a practical perspective tied to the whereabouts of people in the canonical time-frame, Syar Industries, Inc who operated LHR rock quarry with Harms Industries Inc, leads to the Syar family, and their association with the Faraday family via the Vallejo Sailing Club.

This is information that I have discussed in the December 2024 era of the Zodiac Panel on Jerome’s show, however a fully written report remains to be produced, concerning the social and geographical significance of the Vallejo Sailing club, Lake Chabot, and the BRS liaison.

From The Solano-Napa News Chronicle, Wed, Mar 11, 1970 ·Page 6 [7]:

Figure 1. Newspaper clipping confirming ownership of LHR rock quarry by Syar and Harms Industries, Inc [7]

The history of the rock quarry, however, precedes that of the Syar family construction company (Syar Industries). I mentioned earlier the mercury poisoning. Mercury and sulfur were two prime elements associated with the Sulphur Springs Mountain and the Sulphur Springs Creek. St Johns and Hastings mines were the two key mines operating in the area. By the 1930s, a court order ceased all operations because of environmental concern.

For further information, the reader can investigate several sources and references [8]-[10].

In [8] one reads:

It may come as a surprise to many of you, but one of Solano County’s more successful mining industries was mercury mining. It was done mostly around Sulphur Springs Mountain. The mountain received its name from the White Sulphur Springs, which is now called Blue Rock Springs. Many years ago local residents called a part of the mountain “Hunter’s Hill,” because James and Andrew Hunter owned a ranch in the area and the name is still used.

About 70 million years ago, intense heat and pressure from volcanic action formed an ore called cinnabar, which quicksilver comes from. Quicksilver is found in large quantities in the Sulphur Springs Mountain.

Mercury from the area was used heavily in the Comstock milling plants to aid recovering gold and silver.

Mercury from the area was used heavily in the Comstock milling plants to aid recovering gold and silver.

John Neate, an Englishman from Benicia, first discovered quicksilver on Sulphur Springs Mountain in 1852. But his discovery led to no known mining on the mountain itself.

In 1863, Neate discovered cinnabar on Brownlie Ranch, about a half mile east of the springs. He kept the discovery secret until 1868 because of squatter problems with the Suscol Rancho.

When the land claims finally were settled, Neate arranged with John Brownlie to mine for cinnabar on a profit-sharing basis. Unfortunately, they had little success due to inexperience. Then in 1869, William Baron and Company, owners of the New Idria, Chapman and New Almaden Quicksilver Mines, offered to take over the site and were refused.

A second offer was accepted, and at the end of 1870 they dug two tunnels and one shaft, eventually proving the ore was worth mining. Before 1873, when the mine was closed, it produced quicksilver worth $30,000. There has been no known mining at the Brownlie Ranch since the mine was closed.

About the St Johns mine [8]:

A mining company, The St. John’s Quicksilver Mining Company, was incorporated on April 28, 1873. The directors were Neate, E.J. Wilson, S.G. Hilborn, S.C. Fowler and J.W. Batcheller.

In 1874, 60 men were employed at the mine. By 1880, the mine yielded 11,530 flasks of quicksilver. One flask held 70 pounds of mercury.

The mine was valued at between $200,000 and $300,000 just before it closed in 1880. Neate had borrowed $40,000 from Felton to build a furnace, but it failed to process the ore properly. Neate could not settle his debt, so the property was sold.

Neate went to London, hoping to raise money to resume mining at the St. John Mine, but he failed. He ended his days selling a pamphlet of poetry he wrote throughout California.

The St. John Mine was reopened in 1899 and continued producing quicksilver until 1909, then closed down again.

The mine reopened in 1914 and was operated with three principal ore-bearing areas. The main shaft reached a depth of 600 feet. In September 1917 the cost of producing each flask of quicksilver was

$15 more than it had been in September 1916, and 33 percent more than in 1914. The increase was due to the rise in cost of materials and labor, and to lower labor efficiency. By 1923 the mine closed due to failing profits.

The total production of St. John’s Mine by the end of 1917 was 16,483 flasks of quicksilver. The high point of production was in 1875, when 2,100 flasks were produced. From 1904 to 1908 and 1914 to 1919 the mine produced 500 flasks annually. At the time the mine closed in 1923, it extended over 713 acres.

A small amount of quicksilver was mined at St. John’s Mine during World War II. The mine is now flooded.

About Hastings mine [8]:

One other mine of note that had some success was the Hastings Quicksilver Mine, located two miles southeast of St. John’s Mine on the opposite side of the mountain from Blue Rock Springs. It operated sporadically until 1930. A tunnel was dug into the mountain more than 900 feet deep, cutting a vein of cinnabar more than 30 feet wide. The tunnel was extended into the source of Blue Rock Springs, diverting water through the tunnel into Lake Herman. The diversion of water away from Blue Rock Springs caused shrubs and more than 500 trees to die. A court order in 1930 ordered the mine closed and the entrance blocked. The spring water then reverted back to its original outlet at Blue Rock.

Moreover in [9] there is further information concerning water pollution as well as the involvement of the Borges family in the mining business:

Two more mercury mines were located on the south slope of Sulphur Springs Mountain, on Tony Borges’ ranchland along Lake Herman Road. There was mining activity at that site in the mid-1960s. Other quicksilver mines were dug on an 816-foot-high hill above Blue Rock Springs Park and close to Columbus Parkway just north of the park. It’s not clear who developed those mines.

A federal Department of Mineral Resources report states that all the mines on Sulphur Springs Mountain produced more than 17,000 flasks of mercury, most of it from the St. John site, and there’s potential for more mining “under favorable economic conditions.”

However, a 2009 California Regional Water Quality Control Board report raised concerns about the old St. John mine, noting that there were mine tailings, some with high mercury concentrations, on the steep hillside that weren’t adequately protected against erosion. The agency’s main concern was the potential for mercury pollution getting into Rindler Creek, which runs off the mountain, and eventually reaching Vallejo’s Lake Chabot next to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. The report also mentions the Hastings Mine site, but says there’s a low risk of any mercury waste getting into a creek that drains into Lake Herman.

In [10] the reader can have further information about the correlation of ranch families and the areas where mining was introduced. Moreover, I encourage all interested parties to read the comprehensive mapping of people, locations, and operations concerning both the overall layout and the canonical timeframe-related outliers of Lake Harman Road area that esteemed and diligent researcher GorillaTrain has provided in [11]. This is analytical, detailed work which sums up a great deal of deep-dive research that GT has performed and indeed continues to provide, as a significant contribution to the community and the case itself.

In page 3, GorillaTrain offers information on the said mines [11]:

Draining slopes and natural springs from the mountain provide Sulphur Springs Creek its natural flow. The Lake Herman watershed includes Sulphur Springs Creek, its primary source of freshwater, constantly replenishing from the northwest and southwest side of the lake where the creek meets. Historic Location of Hastings Mine Elevated levels of mercury in the water at Lake Herman can be attributed to mining activities that took place in the early half of the 20th century. Specifically the St. John's mine on Sulphur Springs Mountain, and the Hastings mine located roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Lake Herman Road adjacent to Sulphur Springs Creek.     

The Sulphur Springs (Sky Valley) School was originally built one mile west of Lake Herman in 1870. In 1880, the school was physically moved one mile east and was located just inside the gates of what is modern-day Lake Herman Recreation Area at 7 Lake Herman Road. The historic one-room schoolhouse was purchased and then moved across the yard by Frank Dotta in 1934; he turned the school building itself into a garage and the two smaller buildings were used as a tool shed and filter house - used for filtering lake water.

Figure 2. The Solano-Napa News Chronicle Mon, May 06, 1968 ·Page 5 [12]

GorillaTrain’s work features greatly helpful material for understanding the specifics of each location with Google Maps screenshots and coordinates. This is a highly recommended article.

It has also been suggested that Basalt Rock Company was involved in the area. I have retrieved this newspaper clipping from May 1968 and include it here (Figure 2) [12].

The sign of Aquarius is a sign of air where the cup-bearer offers water. Air combined with water, air that controls water.

While sulfur was also mined at the Sulphur Bank Mine, the primary concern in these mines is the presence of mercury and related compounds, including hydrogen sulfide gas released from decaying pyrite. This gas, also known as "stinkdamp," is toxic and can be dangerous in mining environments. This gas is a concern in both mercury and sulfur mines. 

From Wikipedia [13]:

Hydrogen sulfide is toxic to humans and most other animals by inhibiting cellular respiration in a manner similar to hydrogen cyanide. When it is inhaled or its salts are ingested in high amounts, damage to organs occurs rapidly with symptoms ranging from breathing difficulties to convulsions and death.

Figure 3. Hydrogen sulfide [13]

It is very interesting how H2S “reflects” two elements of hydrogen over the Sulfur element. Sulfur is symbolized by S and has an atomic number of 16. This reflects the Sun-rune in the Elder Futhark [14]. H reflects the 10^th Elder Futhark rune, standing for need/distress.

Figure 4. S-16 reference index substitution and transposition scheme

Figure 5. Summary of space-time shift-transposition scheme for Solano County canonical crime scenes

Figures 4 and 5 display the transposition schemes related to the spatial attributes of Z32 and more particularly the space-domain shift of 17 degrees and its impact on the time-domain, namely the “historical transposition” from the background of Sulphur Springs mountain, the mines, the contamination of surrounding water-related areas with LHR being historically first, commissioned by the Benicia Water Company to Herman Schussler, and Blue Rock Springs being inaugurated in the late 30s as the municipal golf course area and club (Figure 5).

Parallel to that, the reference-index (S,16) as shown in Figure 4, introduces the Sun Rune (astrology) and by consequence, the Sun Torch Bind Rune, expressed via the CS miss-spelling in both Z408 and Z340, also present in the symbol series (ciphertext) of Z32. This also leads to the consideration of the Sun symbol used in astronomy (Table III) [15], also present in Z408, Z340 and Z32. It should also be noted that the S-reference index stands for Saturn. I will make the case that Saturn is introduced in the Z32 riddle. But more importantly, the shift from Sulfur to Sun in both astrological and astronomical outliers, with the Sun Torch omnipresent in the Z32 as well, opens the way for the critical issue I raised since vol1: the Sun Bomb.

Table III. Astronomical symbols of planets and associated days and metals [15]

 

SDS

July 20, 2025

References

1.        https://earth.google.com/static/multi-threaded/versions/10.83.0.1/index.html

2.        https://www.google.com/maps

3.        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(astrology)

4.        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces_(astrology)

5.        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_(astrology)

6.        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_(astrology)

7.        https://www.newspapers.com/image/1035601745/

8.        https://www.solanoarticles.com/history/index.php/weblog/more/quicksilver_dominated_solano_mining/

9.        https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2018/03/30/solano-chronicles-vallejo-had-its-own-quicksilver-mining-district/

10.    https://www.solanoarticles.com/history/index.php/weblog2/print/ranch_towns_in_two_areas/

11.    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zTk8tV82W94tu8qsRpRiwo8N4pmCA9XJ

12.    https://www.newspapers.com/image/1035633616/

13.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide

14.    Edred Thorsson, Runelore: a handbook of esoteric runology, Weiser Books, 1987.

15.    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_symbols