Re: The "Peralta" Stone Maps --- On Their Own
More Discrepancies in the Heart Stone
In addition to the curious differences, mentioned in posts above, there are a couple of things which stand out concerning the
alignment of the Heart Stone and the Trail Map which holds it.
I have edited CJ's Stone Maps photos, to place the Heart Stone into the top Trail Map, as shown in post #4, above. As can be seen,
almost everything at the edge of the Heart Stone aligns with the corresponding carvings at the Heart's edge of the Trail Map---
However, there are a few things that don't. The first category is of possible non-continuation from the Trail Map onto the Heart---
The two circles in the upper right might be discrepancies, or they might have been merely the endings of those particular lines.
But what really stands out is the creek which suddenly
stops at the edge of the Heart. In addition to appearing to be unusual, the drawing of this map which appears in the McGees' article, has the creek continuing on into the Heart Stone. If that drawing is just an error, how would they know
exactly what to draw there? All the other depictions, on the Trail Map at least, are very close to accurate, and shows that special care was taken to represent everything accurately. So would they just draw a squiggly line in there, without checking it for exact position, as they apparently did with all the other carving on the Trail Map?
The third category has only one item. That is a continuation of a line, from the Trail Map to the Heart Stone, in which both sides obviously
do not align---
It seems apparent that, whoever made these Stone Maps, and for whatever reason, had done a lot of research, and had put a lot of thought, time, energy, and talent, into planning and making them. With all that planning, would they have made such an error?
Or is there another Heart Map somewhere, on which everything
does align properly?
---And on which the line from the Trail Map forms something entirely different on
that Heart Stone, that what is depicted on the Heart Stone in the above image?
