Thank You Rangler for clearing that up. Why did you keep stuff out of your explanation, and why do you believe some enterprising mine owner would not mark something of value with a different sign? Im not saying your wrong, Im saying you have come to some conclusions that dont fit.
Yes I do believe there was a band of Spanish that went along the trail and put marks and symbols on rocks. This band of folks consisted of learned and skilled craftsman probably accompanied the kings men. Im sure the secrets were many. The Spanish were cruel masters and Im sure they held a healthy contempt for the king, just not openly. The ones that did died.
Now Im dealing with rogues as the Spanish left America for the war. Things were done hastily. You can call it cloud reading but some of the stuff I see was done in a hurry. You are saying Mary would not be painted on a rock or made into a statue? These catholic folks here where I live put her on everything. You say the full bodied men, soldiers, priest do not exist? Well I will disagree there.
I have used your approach many years Rangler. It gives some organization to the signs. But I have yet to find a place that I could just read one sign and then go to another and get a direction and distance. Most of the direction and distance was regulated by drill holes, or another example, the height of a head of a monument. Laying it out the way you did will get folks on a trail eventually.
After walking about 30 miles of trail full of signs. Going from site to site. Finding things that may be period like musket balls and old cartridges. Along the way identifying not only hundreds of signs, but studying the earth and rocks for mineral. Its easy to see why you would say some of the things you do. I just got off a 100 mile plus trip yesterday so Im a little bushed.
The trail(s) are marked very well to and from Mexico City. One thing I have learned is to line up things with Sante Fe and Mexico City. The planet Venus also played a role in how they built things. But I dont see this is your rules posted above. I dont see how to identify a trail or the use of far signs. I see now mention of duality of the signs having more than one meaning. I have seen the same set of signs send you two different directions and both places had a area of importance. You call this the p word. When you insult folks, you get it back.
But something catches your eye, and then you explore. Solitary signs by themselves are almost never used. But I have them. Folks dont say "x" marks the spot, but I got those too. I find mary on a lot of sights here, I can tell you pancho villa or billy the kid didnt put her there. I talk with guys from Oklahoma who have the same signs too.
The only thing I can think why you post the way you do is your on a expeditionary trail and they did things fast and moved on. My signs may not fit your rules Rangler, but the (original) land owners had the placed marked in ways you dont accept for a reason. Im going to find out why.
I looked under a low overhand the other day. I found a weird piece of corn on cob that had been there a while. Funny thing is Im 30 miles from town, and corn hasnt been grown there in a very long time, Id say never been grown there. Id say Im close, the large squirrels here have found something.
Another sign you dont hear folks talk about, is what the Indians did after the Spanish left. You dont here folks talk about trees either, certain types of trees are slow growing, and contain sign. Also I think the Jesuit did thing different than the Franscicans, and then the Spanish, then the mexicans, who all enslaved and forced the Indians to dig it.
Its pretty much agreed the Spanish was here a few hundred years. Im sure they way of doing things also had changed to, and that meant the way the signs were made changed also. Im looking for forged tools, or the steel like tools that some have claimed to found. I like rule number 8, going from one sign to the next seeing the new sign. Yes there is info to get off the sign, but signs are used with other signs. That does not seem to be a popular theory but I tell you I line the signs up all the time. There was a reason for it.
You correct me anytime Rangler. But like you I am set in my ways. I hope that anyone new can use what we are sharing here. I have probably stood on a couple small fortunes already. Finding it and getting it out of the ground it two totally different things.
I forget what brought me here, but this one is cool.
