The Tindaya Mountain is a small peak that barely reaches 500 metres above sea level. It is ochre in colour, with barren slopes, and is home to one of the most disturbing archaeological mysteries on the island of Fuerteventura. The island's people always looked to above when they needed to communicate with the supernatural forces that ruled their world. According to José Carlos Cabrera, in his book 'Fuerteventura y los majoreros', for the ancient inhabitants of the islands, the mountains "possessed a sacred glory, providing sanctuaries where the ancient majoreros celebrated their rituals and invoked their gods through offerings and sacrifices". 

Tindaya still conserves this supernatural magic that has survived to this day through witchcraft and rituals. However, the mountain's relationship with the supernatural is much older. Scattered over the sides and summit of the mountain, there are up to 213 etchings in the form of human feet, a discovery which has caught the attention of researchers. These engravings are distributed over 57 panels and 29 blocks of loose stone that has fallen from indeterminate sites. The podomorfos (in reference to the shape of the human foot) are found predominately on small precipices and particularly on the mountain's summit where the largest sets of engravings have been discovered. They are simple in form, the most common being rectangular or oval in shape, with small incisions indicating the toes. Others, in lesser quantities, are more abstract and are limited to small rectangles, ovals and quadrilateral shapes that are generally around 20 centimetres long. All the etchings have been made through hitting the surface of the rock with a sharp stone and are between 0.5 to 1.5 centimetres deep.  

No agreement has yet been reached in terms of what they were used for. Cabrera believes these footprints in the stone directly relate to worshipping rituals performed by the island's ancient ancestors. In the words of the Canarian archaeologist, the feet represent "the marks left by the ancestors of their passing". If this is the case, Tindaya would then be the island's ancient centre of worship of the dead, a place connecting the world of the living with that of the dead.

Other researchers, however, disagree. A recent study by Juan Antonio Belmonte from the prestigious Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Canarian Institute of Astrophysics, IAC), states that the podomorfos on Fuerteventura have a more practical function, though one still relating to a heavenly god and control of the environment. Belmonte's study finds that the large majority of the podomorfos on the Tindaya Mountain face  west and southwest, towards the direction of the sunset during the winter solstice. On clear days, this position coincides with the points that offer views of the island of Gran Canaria and Teide in Tenerife. Belmonte also highlights the fact that, during winter, it is a south-westerly direction that provides views of Venus, a star that has traditionally been associated with the rain. Tindaya could therefore be an elite lookout post to observe the layout of the stars and anticipate the arrival of the rains, a vitally important resource on an island like Fuerteventura.