Tindaya Guanche sacred mountain, Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) and its Ibero-Guanche (Latin) rock inscriptions

Abstract

Tindaya volcano is a sacred Guanche (or Majo)* mountain, Canary Islands, Spain. This mountain was probably a  religious / pilgrimage place for Guanche /Majo  people. Many of its rocks are covered by lineal and figurative motifs with  incised or  picketed (carved) technology the most abundant reported are podomorphs, which in the  Atlantic  European façade usually point towards either the summer solstice sunset or the  sunset yearly arch at these latitudes  (Northwest direction). Podomorphs are generally  admixed with other motifs in the rock panel. Among these motifs are  the so called Ibero-Guanche incised Lineal Megalithic Scripts or pre-Guanche-Iberian signs. These are  similar to those  found in other Canary Islands, Algerian Sahara Desert or Iberia, some of  them scripted in dolmens themselves (5-3,000  years BC). This finding at Tindaya volcano  supports a very early Fuerteventura Island, longer before than Punic or  Roman influence,  if any; podomorphs todays Bronze Age chronology in Iberia supports ancient peopling in  Fuerteventura and other Canary Islands. In the present paper we analyse these incise  Iberian-Guanche (or earlier)  writing and put forward a mainly religious/ funeral meaning  in the context of the Paleolithic/Neolithic widespread  Religion of the Mother. The Saharo-Canarian cultural circle may have been the origin of Eurafrican and  Mediterranean  Lineal scripts, like Runes, Iberian Tartessian, Etruscan, Lepontic, Minoan  Lineal A and others. Particularly Iberian- Guanche scripts and their probable precursor  Linela Megalithic signs also present in Sahara supports that Saharan  people migration  when desertification started about 10,000 BC was origin of this culture.  *Majos= Lanzarote and  Fuerteventura Islands inhabitants.