The Hole

## Biography

The Hole is a location on the Abbott's property in Wabang, Amelia County, Wyoming. Its physical properties include being a large hole, filled with what appears to be floating sand - which can be clocked as a reference to the sand in an hourglass or, alternatively, 'The Sands of Time'.

### Instances of Appearance and Disappearance

The hole can close up and reappear in different places. This assumption is supported by Royal's jump in time. When Royal is there in the mid 1800s and jumps into the hole, there is no fencing or any type of barrier to give a visual of how the land is divided up. We know that the Tillersons outdate the arrival of the Abbotts on the land by about 6 years - 1872:1878. Luke also seems to be digging in a different spot, searching for something of value, but still around the Abbott's land.

The appearing and/or disappearing of the hole might be able to be attributed to the emotions of biological creatures in its proximity. The hole opens up when the Bison are being hunted (when the fear sensors in their brains would be activated) and makes way for them to travel ahead into the future, where Luke has been digging on the other side, hoping to find oil or something else of value. The hole also opens after Royal kills his father in the 1800s and closes up after Perry jumps in, after feeling guilty for implicating his family in Trevor's murder.

These instances of disappearing and reappearing must've had to predate the colonization of Wyoming by Spain and Mexico in Wyoming, seeing as Tipis were only starting to be used 4,000 years ago, during the Middle Archaic Period. Tipis originated in the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies of North America, and seeing as the word 'Wyoming' has many interpretations by many Native American Tribes, the characterization of plains and prairies seem to be a relevant descriptor to the land. Meaning, it's safe to say that where (or *when*) Joy ends up jumping through time, she would be there around 4,000 or less, years ago.

Throughout the series, it's implied that the hole's existence is actually the work of another - Kronos, a God, some type of higher being. Though mostly heavily by Autumn - whose beliefs tied to the 'higher being' theory could then again be marked up as apart of her past with an unnamed cult - it is still a plausible one.

### Products of the Land

The stone and other products of the land have seen to cause temporary (and not so temporary,) time-jumping. Example, when Billy smashes his father, Wayne's rock and snorts it, he sees assumably the future, which leads him to join Autumn's two person party, devoted to spread the gospel about the land and its foundations. Royal also sees the future when he sticks his arm into the sands of the chasm, when he's pushed in by Autumn and travels two years ahead in time, and again, when he crushes Autumn's necklace - which contained some of the stone frozen in amber - ingests it, and sees himself die in Cecilia's arm, Autumn watching behind them.

The charm, the rock encased in amber fluid could've been given to Autumn when she still went by Amy (spoilers if you haven't finished the series already, but Autumn turns out to be the grown up version of Amy). It could've been giving to her, by Rebecca, her mother, which could be some insight into her disappearance 9 months before the shows first episode, around the same time Wayne's worker finds one of the rocks and gives it to him. Her being taken at the Rodeo when Rebecca reappears in Episode 8: The West, and her comments about 'needing to hide' from someone could be where Autumn/Amy's reference to the unnamed cult in Episode 2: The Land, starts up.