Oddrock,
wow, love the dialog,
you commented...( oh and no one is offended by honest questions about understanding or trying to understand the very complex nature of these codes)
As far as hoyo or hoya they would appear to mean almost the same thing. The first is a noun, the second is a feminine noun. (I think) A hole, pit, excavation, a burial, a grave, or an inequality or uneven surface. ( like a pot-hole in the road)
Neither spelling would appear to represent a hole through a rock.
I am not trying to toot my own horn here, however is was yours truly that introduced both of those words in to this forum.
Hoyo..is Spanish for Hole. It is used as the ultimate confirmation mark. If you have a hoyo you need no other piece of data to absolutely be satisfied that you have an Alpha Monument. Without the hoyo you need more stringent accumulation of glyphs or marks to confirm the same.
Hoya, was introduced here last year when I was working on a very layed set of Alphas, my first time finding several Alphas in the same localized area....each Alpha used different times of the day-to reveal their shadow signs...to keep the monuments from being forever entangled, the second alpha was near a water course, and the mountain came right down to the riververy near the flood plain, no way to make a hoyo that would not be pushed downriver during the 100 and 200 year floods. So they used a Hoya cut into bedrock.,.which means depression in the rock. Like a dish or bowl...or as you so astutely stated "a pothole" lol
The alpha hoyo was not necessarily used to 'look' thru, some are but the normal use is the OUTLINE of the hoyo....it contains data.
The ground hoyo, also coined last year, are at the Omega monument...this one IS sometimes designed to look thru. But again it was confirmation of Omega site. (see the Mushroom ground hoyo at the beginning of my signs 101 thread. Thus the confusion of this sign by some.
The word is Pareidolia.. the random geoglyphs of mother nature that form familiar lines, shapes and appearances of things we recognize . Realize that the codemakers KNEW of this concept! That should make you understand why confirmation is the mantra that you hear me repeat , until I know some of tired of hearing it...but how else can I save you from making some huge wastes of time?
About the backward 7, sometimes that is used just to conceal the sign from unauthorized eyes..notice the small heart pointer, that is used to show the direction. This has the earmarks of a campsite on the trail to the Omega or the Mine, because of the cavities* and the heart sign.. Usually the heart sign is not used as a trail marker..it is a treasure sign. This 7 is probably means a campsite very near this overnight stash spot...
* these cavities are way to small to hold much more than some personal effects? It looks more like a minature mock up of an omega monument..the heart rock is too small to be used as a real sign..it could easily be kick out of place by animals or people..or even a small flood of water.
Without seeing cavity completely from this angle it 'could' be a hoya shaped like a diamond or a mushroom. So keep that in mind the next time you go to the site.
I hope this clears up the hoyo, hoya thingie..!
rangler
ps with some exceptions the only rocks you flip over are the buried or half buried ones that you have been directed to.....and most of these maps are carved right on top....that is how disguised they are...You can kill a site if you move the wrong rock!