Basic signs and symbols you have found

[gorgias]

Re: Mine Shrines

I'm making my way slowly but surely through this post. But I have to ask, does anyone have a picture of a mine shrine or saints. All I've seen are the ones from Turtles Lead to Treasure. I'd like to see these more close up, and in color.

Gorgias

 

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[desertmoons]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

Could be a palm ..goldguru... there is another circular thing on left cornet of that monument. Little head at the bottom you are right od!

G... never found a confirmed shrine as mentioned here on tnet. But ...just maybe a shrine is indicated by a tiny carving of a man kneeling and praying on it. Somewhere on the shrine.

 

[Old Dog]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

As many will tell you Gorgias,
Turtles don't always lead to treasure,
I have posted at least one that points to a waterhole.

I have never seen a shrine as you describe one either.
But I haven't seen everything either,

The only shrines I have seen were roadside shrines in Mexico.
I have not found a confirmed shrine near a treasure yard anywhere.

 

[Springfield]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

... The only shrines I have seen were roadside shrines in Mexico.
I have not found a confirmed shrine near a treasure yard anywhere.

Every underground mine worked by Hispanics in the Southwest (thousands of them, all the way up to the 1970's when small mining died) had a Catholic shrine not far from the adit/shaft. The miners (the good Catholics anyway) prayed for deliverance prior to their shift and sometimes gave thanks after the shift ended. The structures were sometimes merely a rock with a cross (often three crosses) scratched into it, but for longer-working mines, rock structures with a santo were often constructed. Up Ouray way in the 70's, I saw one that was a half a bathtub set up with plastic flowers and a santo. When the mine shut down, the shrine was usually removed, although you may still find the old rock structures here and there. Same story all over Mexico.

 

[hadji009]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

end of mules nose forms a heart.

 

[Old Dog]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

Kim and Hadj,
That face on the bottom corner should be the directional.

 

[hadji009]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

this looks like it could be a animal head of some kind. brent

 

[emtrescue]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

Been a while since I posted (Hi everybody!!!! ) - I am a good lurker though anyway, Here's food for thought. What happens when you look a this "dude" sideways? Or do you do that anytime?

 

[Old Dog]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

An Ancient !!
Nice catch EMT.

Very cool, an awesome example of the destruction the Spanish did to the ancient monuments.

What do you think about that Kim?

 

[desertmoons]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

oh good heavens above!

Am flabbergasted but sure agree!

Explains the slope very nicely!

I do rotate pics sometimes..but will be doing that a lot more. And that bent necked gal you see out there on the trail will be me!


emtrescue thank you!!!! Please post away!

 

[Old Dog]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

What has me a little taken back and almost embarrassed...
I totally missed it. looking for other things.

LOL (blush)

 

[desertmoons]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

Aw let me share my humble pie.... lol
Here is some other stuff that ..sure does not look Spanish to me..orginally.
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[hadji009]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

if so what happens to the well hung donkey and the head on bottom? and nice that they tipped over and stayed together.

 

[Old Dog]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

if so what happens to the well hung donkey and the head on bottom? and nice that they tipped over and stayed together.

Many of the ancient monuments were either destroyed by the Spanish or modified to suit them. Or both.

The Spanish marks are still there and their meaning doesn't change, just because they are on a modified monument

 

[okey dokey]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

looks like a 6 to me.

okey dokey

 

[panthr]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

Been a while since I posted (Hi everybody!!!! ) - I am a good lurker though anyway, Here's food for thought. What happens when you look a this "dude" sideways? Or do you do that anytime?

Sorry all for the late post but this is really interesting. I don't know where this was taken, but if you note the sloping forehead. This is a well known practice among certain ancient cultures called head binding/skull shaping/cranial modification etc... What is interesting is that the ancient American cultures that did this were far to the south of the US most notably the Mayan civilization of central America, and the Inca and Nacza cultures of Peru. I am going to try to attach a picture of a skull found in Peru that exhibits this cranial modification.

 

[Old Dog]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

Where was this skeleton found

I'm noy sure it came from the lower US.
Maybe farther south. ??

 

[goldguru]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

Your ref to the pic above for modification took place in the Womb..
all features of that shull were birth defects.

Im no DR but there Is No Intrusion represented there

 

[Old Dog]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

I am aware that some civilizations in South and central America,
used to bind the head of an infant in order to achieve this effect.

A lot of pre-Columbian graves that have been excavated show the same effects

 

[desertmoons]

Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found

hadji/okey etc.....thanks.

I "think" the Flathead indians up north that practiced modification too. Strangely I seem to recall this tribe was looked down upon by other tribes for some reason.

A lot more on that rock than i ever imagined