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If any of you guys are out stomping through the boonies in search of clues to this "map", here's something to keep an eye open for. The eye, on the map, could indicate a hole carved out of a rock formation or created by stacking rocks. The eye is at the summer solstice spot on the star chart and one of the rays of the sun goes to the eye. The hole could be in a spot where you can stand on the west side of the hole and site through it, on the summer solstice, and see the sun come up over the horizon. A lot of people have mentioned hoyos in the treasure signs forums so, if you find a hoyo at a site you're looking at, you can check it out with a sun calculator to see if you can see the sun through it on the summer solstice.
SunCalc - sun position, sunlight phases, sunrise, sunset, dusk and dawn times calculator
PatrickD is letting me post a picture he contributed to sandy1's thread in the Treasure Marks/Signs forum. Here is his picture of a rock formation he found in the Sangre de Christos.
The profile is facing north so the carved out eye shape would be going through the rock from east to west or west to east. If you look close at the eye shaped hole, there seems to be a dark spot at the front of the eye that could suggest that the hole was carved at a slant from southwest to northeast or northeast to southwest. Patrick told me that there were footholds carved on the south side of the rock for easy access.
Here's another picture of a similar formation hundreds of miles away close to the Mississippi River.
This is at the end of a rock formation that points north, north is to the left. The hole is shaped like an eye but with a flat bottom. On the west side are foot and finger holds carved in the rock for easy access to site through the hole. The hole is carved at a slant and when you site through it from the west side, you are looking to the northeast at the top of a hill about half a mile away. At the summer solstice, you can site through the hole and watch the sun rise over the hill. Behind this place, to the west a hundred feet away, are the last three signs of a cache setup with two large open holes.
So, these are two similar setups that may or may not be related to the LUE map. It could be that the LUE map shows some type of template to be used at related sites. Maybe the eye shaped hole is a signature of some type. Anyway, this is something to look for when out in the field. I'd like to know if anybody else has pictures of similar formations. And, as always, these holes might or might not be LUE related. Use it if you can.