Cult of Dan Brown: The "Kryptos" Statue

I thought, to stimulate conversation on this belived element of the next robert langdon book, I thought I would post some information on the statue, including the 3 currently solved codes, the 4th one still unsolved, even by the CIA who has people who spend time on Kryptos during their free time.

the first three codes were solved a while back, and they feature very intriuding, vague, and for me, alluring mysterys.

Solution 1:
BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF :IQLUSION

Solution 2:
IT WAS TOTALLY INVISIBLE HOWS THAT POSSIBLE ? THEY USED THE EARTHS MAGNETIC FIELD X THE INFORMATION WAS GATHERED AND TRANSMITTED UNDERGRUUND TO AN UNKNOWN LOCATION X DOES LANGLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS ? THEY SHOULD ITS BURIED OUT THERE SOMEWHERE X WHO KNOWS THE EXACT LOCATION ? ONLY WW THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO

Solution 3:
SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY THE REMAINS OF PASSAGE DEBRIS THAT ENCUMBERED THE LOWER PART OF THE DOORWAY WAS REMOVED WITH TREMBLING HANDS I MADE A TINY BREACH IN THE UPPER LEFT HAND CORNER AND THEN WIDENING THE HOLE A LITTLE I INSERTED THE CANDLE AND PEERED IN THE HOT AIR ESCAPING FROM THE CHAMBER CAUSED THE FLAME TO FLICKER BUT PRESENTLY DETAILS OF THE ROOM WITHIN EMERGED FROM THE MIST X CAN YOU SEE ANYTHING Q (?)

X's seem to have been used as spaces, in some way inplace of periods. we learned more about this when it was revealed that sanborn, the artist who made the sculpture omited a X for astethic reasons.

according to wikipedia *where the above is from* the 3rd is a reference to howard carter opening king tuts tomb. A strangely random thing, but we were told that to solve the statue completely, you had to solve a riddle in a riddle that cant be solved until all four clues are decrypted.

we know dan brown is a very creative person, and with three of the clues decrypted, I feel certain we can expect that dan brown, if kryptos those feature, will include a fictional clue 4, which may very well help our hero understand what conspiracy is happening.

i have heard a theory that once all four codes are solved, it forms the first riddle that has to be decyrpted by the four clues in some fashion. then, that riddle has to be solve, revealing another riddle. it all seems really complicated to me, but I really think it might make for a great read.

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