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Mayan 'apocalypse' crop circle appears at Silbury Hill
telegraph ^ | 08 Jul 2009

Posted on 07/11/2009 6:05:15 PM PDT by dennisw

A 350ft crop circle of an ancient Mayan symbol, said to be a sign of an impending apocalypse, has appeared next to Silbury Hill in Wiltshire.

The giant pattern - thought to represent a traditional Mayan head-dress - appeared next to the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe last week.

Members of the crop circle community believe the mystic symbol is a signal of the end of the 5,126-year Mayan 'Long Count' calendar on December 21, 2012.

Karen Alexander, a crop circle enthusiast, said: "This is one of the most interesting crop circles I have ever seen. It is definitely a Mayan symbol and we are sure it is linked to the Mayan calendar, which ends in 2012.

"It appears to be a warning about the world coming to an end when the calendar does. For the ancient Maya, reaching the end of a cycle was a momentous event, so we are taking this crop circle very seriously as an indicator of a possibly huge event in 2012."

Last month a 400-foot crop circle depicting a phoenix rising from the flames appeared in a barley field in Yatesbury near Devizes, Wiltshire.

Crop circle theorists believe the patterns are created by UFOs during nocturnal visits, or caused by natural phenomena such as unusual forms of lightning striking the earth.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Religion; Science; UFO's
KEYWORDS: apocalypse; belongsinreligion; belongsinweirdstuff; cropcircle; endtimes; england; greatbritain; mayan; nonscience; ohsomysteriouso; silburyhill; thisisnotscience; unitedkingdom; wiltshire
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To: mnehring

Why don’t you email them and see if they are taking credit?


21 posted on 07/11/2009 6:23:43 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: dennisw

See the group in post #16, they have a pretty scientific and advanced system going to make these.


22 posted on 07/11/2009 6:24:13 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: mnehring

Well, at least we Yanks have better duck blinds (thanks to the farmers who let us put pit and coffin blinds on their land).

One autumn, I went “wildfowling” (the Brit name for waterfowl hunting) in the UK and we didn’t have squat to hind behind.


23 posted on 07/11/2009 6:24:16 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: Hound of the Baskervilles

But how do you make something so intricate on foot at night?? I know you can make a circle with a string from a central point but this hummingbird is complicated.


24 posted on 07/11/2009 6:24:26 PM PDT by omega4179 (Anti Obamaphile)
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To: dennisw

It doesn’t line up with the parallel lines in the fields. It’s a prank.


25 posted on 07/11/2009 6:25:56 PM PDT by rfp1234
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To: Ken522

The Brits seem to be getting all, or most, of the interesting UFO sightings, also. Why? The Shadow knows.........


26 posted on 07/11/2009 6:27:03 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: hinckley buzzard

Exceedingly artistically creative schoolboys, I’d say.


27 posted on 07/11/2009 6:28:22 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: omega4179
Such things are done by a whole team of people working from a master blueprint.

"Initially I was quite willing to believe that many of the circles were of non-human origin [be it a plasma vortex or some type of paranormal entity], and I was initially skeptical of Doug and Dave's 1991 confession in Today newspaper. But events such as the Crop Circle Making competition of 1992 initiated by Rupert Sheldrake, and Jim Schnabel's book Round in Circles helped convince me that it was indeed possible to create complex man made formations overnight. The main catalyst for me was meeting Rod. We decided to formalise a group committing the necessary time, money and energy that allowed us to see just how far we could push the envelope in terms of the scale and complexity of the formations we created. The possibility of creating an artifact that may well be interpreted as being of non-human origin was an intriguing proposition."

28 posted on 07/11/2009 6:29:58 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: null and void

As portrayed in Mayan symbolic art, one presumes.


29 posted on 07/11/2009 6:30:29 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: mnehring

YOU NEED to check out their site. They make crap and they do it during daylight hours

Drill down and look at the photos-—>> http://www.circlemakers.org/exhibit_a.html

I don’t see them taking credit for anything really nice and large


30 posted on 07/11/2009 6:33:14 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: Ken522
Why do the Brits get all the good crop circles? Rarely do any appear in the USA ...

Sarah

31 posted on 07/11/2009 6:34:03 PM PDT by Bi-ped Carbon Unit (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: jakerobins

32 posted on 07/11/2009 6:34:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
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To: dennisw

That’s wierd. My kids and I are watching El Dorado as we speak.


33 posted on 07/11/2009 6:35:33 PM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out)
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To: dennisw; mikrofon; martin_fierro; JoeProBono

Mayan Anglo clue?


34 posted on 07/11/2009 6:36:39 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (I Know Why the Staged Burst Stinks.)
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To: dennisw

Actually, I thought a few of those examples were nearly as artistic and/ or difficult to make as the new Mayan one. Not quite, but in the same league.


35 posted on 07/11/2009 6:38:21 PM PDT by john in springfield (One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe such things.No ordinary man could be such a fool.)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Absolutely............
36 posted on 07/11/2009 6:38:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin ("A new Dark Ages made all the more terrible and prolonged by the sinister powers of science.")
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To: Charles Henrickson

37 posted on 07/11/2009 6:41:07 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: john in springfield
Actually, I thought a few of those examples were nearly as artistic and/ or difficult to make as the new Mayan one. Not quite, but in the same league.

MADE DURING DAYTIME!
I thought they were dumb and crude especially the question mark
Anyways I can't find them taking credit for any crop circle on the scale of this Mayan one
I have them down as hitchhiking parasites and publicity hounds

38 posted on 07/11/2009 6:45:01 PM PDT by dennisw (Free Republic is an island in a sea of zombies)
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To: dennisw

Why isn’t the surrounding field around the impression ever trampled or damaged. How do these ‘hippies’ get in there to do this? A flying carpet or something?

I’m not saying all this phenomena is unexplainable, but some sure get my attention.


39 posted on 07/11/2009 7:14:23 PM PDT by smellmygunpowder
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To: Elsiejay
Yeah, but it still looks a lot more like a turkey than a humming bird.


40 posted on 07/11/2009 7:19:19 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 172 of our national holiday from reality.)
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