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 ...
Why don’t you email them and see if they are taking credit?
See the group in post #16, they have a pretty scientific and advanced system going to make these.
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.
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.
It doesn’t line up with the parallel lines in the fields. It’s a prank.
The Brits seem to be getting all, or most, of the interesting UFO sightings, also. Why? The Shadow knows.........
Exceedingly artistically creative schoolboys, I’d say.
"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."
As portrayed in Mayan symbolic art, one presumes.
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
That’s wierd. My kids and I are watching El Dorado as we speak.
Mayan Anglo clue?
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
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.
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