The head of the A is better alignment than the body, hope this helps. Maybe when the A has a head, the way the head is looking is the line.
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Hola Perro,
This ain’t just an A frame with a head. Are you ready to deal with a “dragon lizard”? This is an ancient symbol complete with body, body posture, well defined head with facial mimic, with eyes and a mouth that is chewing on something. (Later, it was replaced by the snake swallowing an egg, and later then replaced again by the snake swallowing any animal/thing to represent “different” other meanings on site)
Your site is genuine and appears untouched for a long-long time, except by you. The sentinels missed this one (or they could not make heads and tails out of it) being way before their time and scope. This is also NOT a Jesuit site, as it predates their arrival in Tierra Alta, by hundreds of years. They were actually searching for sites like these and they were able to “read” the ancient language and symbols and later have adapted and incorporated in their own lingo-code with diverse variations, according to the Christian faith. Later, they were motivated to re-adjust their codices to other meanings, because different other groups were following in their tail. (Other early T. hunters, adventurers, king’s men, and all other European desperados of their time, including pirates in some locations) These late characters, they all knew about the basic symbolic and in time, they used it themselves in different contexts to suit them.
Thus, what we have to-day, is an amalgam of different codes with similar meanings which is neither clear nor direct and not common to all, or homogeneous.
We have the very early pre-Columbian period, then after is the ante-Jesuit and post-Jesuit, and then the modern period which includes our “friendly” sentinels, KGC and others.
The main challenge to modern day TH is to figure out the time period of such. This requires mammoth amount of time in the field and massive research and comparative trial and error of each particular site, unless you really get lucky on you first shot. (This too may happen, as it happened to others)
Your Lizard is covered with lingo and early symbols on both shoulders, middle of the chest and possibly down to the ground level and bellow, but is obstructed by the vegetation at chest level. Another disadvantage is the light on it which casts half shadow. (probably midday sun) Best if taken 5-5:30 pm or when it casts uniform shadow and still enough light. (depending on season}
On ITS right shoulder, which is left as you look at it (frontal view) it starts with Dalet which means door/gate. It is a Hebrew letter descending from paleo hebrew and Aramaic which all descend from Phoenician. Crazy no? Believe or not, I have seen it in the field so many times and at first I didn’t know what to make of it. Later, after serious research, it came to me…..that I’m not crazy and I’m NOT seeing things, like reading tea leaves. This was about 15 years ago. Not much internet back then.
It gets better….You have a middle-east type SHOE pointing left. The shoe symbol was replaced later by the Spaniards with the Spanish boot (knee high) You guess it….look/go left. Left towards the pile of boulders covered by your initials. (I bet those boulders have more information on them)
The third is your ever present Turtle, complete with head, body, three legs and tail . The head is pointed/looking at the dalet and the left front foot is underneath the body/shell. You may very well read it as: “something hidden on the left”. At this stage we don’t know anything about front or back at all. We’ll see about that later.
Next, sitting right on the turtle’s tail, you have a skull looking straight at you with both eyes, very well defined and luminous. (as in buried)
There are two more symbols after that, which I can’t make out (in this light). After those two, it stops before the middle of the chest and start again on the opposite shoulder. The dragon’s left shoulder (frontal right for you) is in full sun light and is unreadable. Different picture is needed with equal shade.
The middle of the chest has three lines visible with naked eye. Two of them are parallel and one is shorter. I can’t make sense of that, because the rest of it lays lower behind the plants. There are also some very fine hair line symbols above the lines that include a small heart standing over a diamond with a Y and a V on the side. These last fine symbols are only visible using a magnifying glass. There is a blur in the picture at that point that stops me from speculating on the meaning, because these are the most common signs with a lot of meanings. The correct meaning depends on the ENTIRE and complete scribe. Only then you can identify the origin of the character and language and possible time period.
However, the full meaning of the scribe, must be read from right to left as any other mosaic text including all languages mentioned before.
It appears to be a direct reference onto those hidden boulders behind your DTTH. I think you got your hands full but, you should filter all this information, check it again in the field and then make your assumptions for your next move. More detailed and frontal pictures would be a good start. You may also take a 4x magnifying glass loupe and look closely at your pictures zoomed at max. You’ll see what I’m talking about. Chances are you‘ll find repetition of same symbols elsewhere on your site, in different size.
I have yet to see any Christian Cross or any other Christian symbol, but my view angle is limited. IF there is one, …that is a game changer. Then you must apply Sandy’s technique that is for more recent sites.
That will be your next task in the field to establish (roughly) the time period. Remember: the early Jesuit Cross looked like the Templar Cross with equal arms also known as The Jerusalem Cross. The current POPE is wearing one just like that and is the first Jesuit Pope of non-european origin. The regular Catholic Cross should look more like the Kino Cross that came about later. Regardless of shape, the Cross should be well defined as Cross, not just a crisscross of lines that may bear a different meaning in context.
There is much more to say about another symbol (calcinations) that I think I saw in one of your pictures, but that is another subject, very complex to explain, (because it’s ancient alchemy) and I have taken enough time and space here. This is Sandy’s thread after all.
