Re: Basic Spanish signs and symbols you have found
Good afternoon my friends, sorry for the late post.
A) all old Spanish mines had a small niche of some kind at the entrance with an
image of a particular Saint, Generally the Virgin de Guadalupe with a perpetually burning candle.
They always made the sign of the cross upon entering and leaving.
Most of these images are long gone, but you generally can still find the Smoke blackened niche near the actual portal easily.
B) The habit of binding the skull to form it into an elongated shape, i.e., flattened forehead, was also practiced in Central / south Sonora next to the Chihuahua border.
I recovered a skull with a bit of skin and hair from a burial cave in that region of a young woman about 22, that had had two children. It had been radically reformed to the point that the forehead was almost not noticeable.
I believe that it eventually ended up in a university museum.
Don Jose de La Mancha
