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Mdog, Iāve got to confess, or point out about measuring...
I have made a few tools for measurements made by Spanish, Jesuits and possibly KGC,
I have adopted Dr Bronsonās theory
( working early Spanish and Jesuits and Franciscans .. back and forth.
They were officially returned for not thriving as they were supposed to.
I have lost track of which one was the first. But any way you can make a
Spanish 1vara tape from a piece of copy paper!!
Simply fold it in half from top to bottom, then repeat the same process with the top and bottom piece. Mark the seams...
Each of the quartered pieces is 4 Spanish dedos (finger widths) , four of those create a š„§ pie, and three of the pies š„§ equals one vara! Just that simple!
If you cut the paper into three equal widths and tape them together, end to end, and you have a one vara ruler.
I admit that this is short, by .0762ā
If I remember, pretty insignificant in the short run but human error can eat that margin. After all That is about the thickness of my thumb nail.
I have a cloth tape that I carry on a one vara long walking stick with a 60 vara marked on it, and it is wound up on an old fly fishing reel , and also the white cord on my hat is vara tape for an add on!!
The only advantage that I have tried to apply is a ratio from the 48 dedos to a vara.
IE.. a five dedo line in the carving would become a five vara measurement from the proper point.
Keep in mind that Dr Bronson has done his research on the east coast of Florida, where the earliest landings were dated by the missions that were built there.
His work may only apply to the eastern part of the U. S.
If I were working on something like the ones that you are working on, I would be using those tools. The farther west you go the less accurate this method may be...
Even at that I simply donāt understand the the importance of most of the signs.
I had many that needed the Spanish signs measured before the end of the mountain exploded and the bluff fell to the valley below...
I would like to see what you think about them.
On the heart shaped carving,( some say that you use it like a bow and arrow, while others think that you use it like the point. )
The notch may indicate some kind of an opening..?.
I guess we will need to do both ways to figure it out.
You asked about the defining marker that made me believe that Free Masons were involved. We believed that due to the multitude of carved signs and monuments, that it was probably true, but the one that really set the lock on the belief, was this one.
The āAll seeing eye š ā.
And the radiant circle above the eye with the beams going out in all different directions.
And the lightning bolt (that looks like a stairway going down to the left of the circle.)
Itās a bit fuzzy because it is cut out of the full picture looking down the hallway. I didnāt see it in the picture for about six months! And that is what made us go back to find it again and properly document all of that area.
There are several other carvings that I cut out of the hallway to make them easier to spot.
Faces and one upper body, holding a large book with a cross ā¦ļø on it. And the face of that man with two more faces, just beyond it, all looking downward at the same place. The stone in the entrance floor. Most likely to be a grave.
Same fuzzy look, due to the cut and paste method of separating them.
You can go back to the original photo to see them once you see them separately.
These and the billboard at the top need a lot more studying and this is just the beginning of the images inside the āroom ā beyond.
These are what keeps my mind on fire.
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Iām still learning. And it has taken its toll.
I hope that I have made since here, I started this post last night and woke up with it in mid sentence, to be finished.
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