CROP CIRCLES OF 1992

Silbury Hill 1992: a modern "Rosetta Stone" by which to decode crop language glyphs from the 1990's

In the spring of 1990, dozens of strange language glyphs suddenly and unexpectedly filled the English fields near Wiltshire. At first in May and June, only single-character symbols appeared  But by July or August, a whole series of multi-character symbols had appeared, for example at Alton Barnes on July 12. A few of those single-character symbols are shown below: 

 Even to this day, no one knows what any of them might mean. Before 1990, only a few single-character symbols had appeared, for example a quintuplet known as the Celtic Cross (see below). Then after 1990, other multi-character symbols sometimes appeared, but only sporadically as say at East Field on June 12, 1999.  

None of those strange symbols matched apparently any written script ever used on Earth. Who could have made them, and why? 

Other pictures in later years showed long-forgotten aspects of British megalithic astronomy 

When police detectives wish to solve a important case, usually they hold details of a crime scene back from the public. Then when someone later "confesses", they will more easily be able to sort out the true criminals from a much greater number of publicity-seeking frauds.  

The same holds true for crop pictures. If some of those pictures tell us something that hardly anyone else could know, except for a small group of individuals who possess some special or arcane knowledge, then maybe that small group designed and constructed the pictures in question?  

Early researchers found that new crop pictures would often appear close to ancient megalithic sites in Wiltshire: for example Avebury Ring, Stonehenge, Windmill Hill or Wayland's Smithy. More recently, we have confirmed the correctness and importance of those early observations, by finding that many complex crop pictures from the years 1996 to 2007 show long-forgotten aspects of megalithic astronomy, as practiced in the British Isles 4000 to 5000 years ago.  

Who else could know, except for the original builders of those megalithic sites?  It took great effort just to reconstruct what those crop pictures were trying to tell us. Some show ancient yearly sundials ("Four megalithic sundials"). Others show lunar cycles as kept at Avebury Ring in the distant past ("The 1994 Avebury spiderweb"). Others show lunar phase diagrams ("The Stonehenge code" or "Dual codes for lunar astronomy at Chisledon"). Others show megalithic yearly calendars that have not been in use since 1000 BC ("SETI beneath our feet").  

Occasionaly such astronomical crop pictures even contain geographical or historical information, telling precisely where or when they were made. Most correspond to northern latitudes of 51 to 60 degrees, thereby matching Stonehenge, Avebury or southern Norway. A few correspond to a historical era 4000 to 5000 years ago, when seasons on Earth were of slightly different length than today.  

Legends of out-of-place, high technology as possessed by the megalith builders or Tuatha de' Danaan 

Historical records suggest that the ancient megalith builders or "Tuatha de' Danaan" did indeed live in southern Norway, before they migrated to Ireland and England around 2000 BC. While in Norway, they were regarded as great teachers of science and knowledge.  

When they arrived in Ireland, they supposedly brought with them four out-of-place technological artefacts: the "Spear of Lugh" (an intensely hot weapon), the "Sword of Light" (a cutting laser), "Dagda's Cauldron" (an automated food supply), and the "Stone of Fal" (a device that could measure personal identity).  

Later around 1800 BC, after they lost in battle to invading Milesians from Spain, some of those Tuatha supposedly left through an underground "Gate to the Otherworld" and were never seen again. Might their legendary Gate to the Otherworld be what modern physicists call a spacetime "wormhole"? And by using such a device, could some of them be sending messages far forward in time, which we then perceive as modern crop pictures today?  

Astronomical or calendar symbols from the British Isles 4000 to 5000 years ago 

With those strange ideas in mind, I next re-examined many crop pictures from 1985 to 2005, in order to see whether any of them might show astronomical or calendar symbols from the British Isles 4000 to 5000 years ago? Some of those ancient symbols are shown below (from www.mythicalireland.com/astronomy/astroart/index.html):  

 Two of them (labelled in yellow), namely "four seasons" as a checkered square, and "equinox" as a doubly-joined spiral, were found to match crop pictures from several of the years mentioned. For example at Fort Nelson on June 5, 2004, a doubly-joined spiral appeared that matches the ancient symbol for "equinox": 

Likewise at Winterbourne Stoke on August 12, 1989, a checkered circle appeared which matches the ancient symbol for "four seasons":  

 A few other calendar symbols from the ancient British Isles are also shown below:  

Instead of our modern 12-month yearly calendar, most people in the ancient British Isles followed an 8-part yearly calendar. For example, one learns from Astronomy and Ancient Civilizations that:

"Some ancient calendars followed the lunar phase cycle of 29-30 days, whereas others followed an eight-part division of the solar year into 45-46 days." 

Similarly, one learns from the work of Alexander Thom (www.megalithicsites.co.uk/Calendar1.html) that:  

"A solar calendar of 16 months was in use throughout the British Isles from approximately 2000 to 1600 BC. It contained of four months of 22 days, eleven months of 23 days, and one month of 24 days. It was sometimes further subdivided into 32 parts of 11 or 12 days each." (author's note: as shown in crops at Windmill Hill in 2002)  

Silbury Hill 1992: a modern "Rosetta Stone"

So far we have only found isolated symbols from the ancient British Isles that match modern crop pictures; and have not found even one ancient symbol, that matches any of those language glyphs from the summer of 1990.   

Fortunately, and apparently in an attempt to alleviate this problem, the crop artists sent us in 1992 a kind of modern "Rosetta Stone", that would help us to figure everything out. Thus on August 17, 1992, a novel and beautiful crop picture appeared near Silbury Hill that quickly became known as the "Charm Bracelet":  

At its centre we can see the usual, checkered "four seasons" symbol (labelled here in red). Then around its outer perimeter, we can see eight other characteristic symbols, that represent the eight parts of any British megalithic year.  

Four of those (labelled in white) are just the summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice or spring equinox.  

Four others (labelled in blue) represent "cross quarter days", namely Beltaine, Lughnasadh, Samhain or Imbolc, that lie between any solstice and its nearest equinox. All show a graphical style that closely resembles those crop language glyphs from the summer of 1990.  

A contemporary version of the same eight-part yearly calendar has become popular in recent years among Celtic culture enthusiasts:  

Pictures like this may be found all over the web, as the descendants of those tall, blond megalith builders who now live in faraway places like California or Australia try to rediscover their ancient roots. Our modern cultural symbol for "midsummer" seems clear enough as a bright Sun. But could we easily explain why a decorated fir tree symbolizes "Yule", or why a pumpkin represents "Samhain"?  

Ancient symbols for each solstice or equinox  

Now back to that eight-part calendar in crops. When we divide any solar year into eight nearly-equal parts, then its astronomy becomes as follows:  

Thus any eight-part year may divided first into four nearly-equal parts, that will be centered on a summer solstice, autumn equinox, winter solstice or spring equinox respectively (labelled with red squares). Based purely on astronomy, one might then expect any cultural symbol for "summer solstice" to be a "bright full Sun", while any cultural symbol for "winter solstice" would be a "dim crescent Sun" as shown above.  

Indeed, that was what the crop artists drew at Silbury Hill in 1992. Their calendar symbol for "summer solstice" (left) was a "bright full Sun" surrounded by three smaller circles, that could plausibly be meant to represent the Moon. Likewise, their calendar symbol for "winter solstice" (right) was a "dim crescent Sun":  

We can also see a close match of both summer and winter solstice symbols as drawn in crops in 1992, to rock carvings made at Knowth in Ireland 5000 years ago. The ancient rock symbol there for "summer solstice" is a bit hard to see due to its extreme age: but look carefully for a thin circular line, with three small circles (labelled with red squares) on its outer perimeter. The ancient rock symbol for "winter solstice" was just a "dim crescent Sun".  

Next we may compare that crop symbol for "summer solstice" as drawn at Silbury Hill in 1992, with other crop language glyphs from earlier years; only to find that it matches well the "Celtic Cross" pictures found at Beckhampton on August 3, 1988, Warminster in July of 1990, and Morgan's Hill on May 28, 1990:  

They were showing us the same thing, over and over again, but we didn't understand! What about calendar symbols for any equinox? As shown below, their crop symbol for "spring equinox" (right) was just a "green leaf" printed from the air, above a field water trough:  

Likewise, their symbol for "autumn equinox" (left) could represent some kind of ripe autumn fruit, say an apple. Yet it also matches an overall plan for Newgrange which was built during the same era. Could Newgrange have been designed to match certain symbols from the eight-part megalithic calendar?  

Ancient symbols for cross-quarter days  

Now onto the heart of this essay, which concerns a close resemblance between those four cross-quarter-day symbols, shown in crops at Silbury in 1992, and crop language glyphs from the summer of 1990. We cannot know for sure what each cross-quarter-day symbol represents, but can make reasonable guesses:  

 Starting at lower left in the picture above, one may begin the dark side of any year on a full Moon in early winter or Samhain (as is still practiced today by adherents of that calendar). Hence a large, round, open circle has been connected using a thin line to another small, white, closed circle, in order to represent "full Moon".  

Proceeding to lower right, one may continue any year in early spring or Imbolc by planting seeds in the fields for that year's harvest. Hence a large, round, filled circle has been connected using a thin line to a "trident plus small ball", in order to represent "the planting of seeds".  

Next proceeding to upper right, one may further continue any year in early summer or Beltaine, by nurturing those seedlings to grow up into young, erect, single-stemmed plants. Hence a large, round, open circle has been connected using a thin line to "two sideways lines", in order to represent "young erect plants".  

Finally proceeding to upper left, one may conclude any year in early autumn or Lughnasadh (named after Lugh of the Tuatha de' Danaan), by harvesting all of those plants that have grown up into a mature, fully-branched form. Hence a large, round, filled circle has been connected using a thin line to "two highly branched lines",  in order to represent mature plants or "harvest".  

Most single-character symbols consist of a lower "connecting" part plus an upper "symbolic" part 

Now let us compare directly those cross-quarter-day symbols from Silbury 1992 with several crop language glyphs from the summer of 1990, as well as with a famous crop picture from Stonehenge in 1996:  

Along the top of this diagram we can see four cross-quarter-day symbols standing for Samhain (full Moon), Imbolc (plant seeds), Beltaine (young plants), or Lughnasadh (branched mature plants). Then along the bottom we can see three crop language glyphs from 1990, plus another crop picture from Stonehenge 1996. A close similarity of style seems evident in all cases!  

Considering first those language glyphs from 1990, each single symbol seems to contain two parts: a lower "connecting" part plus an upper "symbolic" part. When any two single symbols (left) are joined into several two-character symbols (center), then each lower connecting part may become "encircled" by an adjoining symbolic part, so that it no longer remains featureless. At the same time, two small double lines which often appear on either side of those single symbols may sometimes be omitted; which suggests that they represent some kind of grammar rather than anything symbolic. Other single-character symbols (not shown) may contain just one part rather than two. 

These tentative conclusions are based on a preliminary study of 40 different language glyphs, too extensive to show here. They are meant only to represent preliminary observations that suggest a formal system of grammar, rather than any proper theory of linguistics.  

We seem to be dealing here with a syllabic language such as Sumerian cuneiform or Egyptian hieroglyphics, where each symbol represents a discrete syllable such as "ta-lo-mi" for the word "Ptolemy". Alternatively, in an alphabetic language such as English or French, each symbol would represent a discrete sound such as "t-a-l-o-m-i".  

Now for a syllabic language, there may be as many as 100 unique symbols, as the product of five vowels and twenty consonants. Not easy to understand, unless you know what all of those symbols mean. We need a more complete Rosetta Stone!  

In the eight-part yearly calendar shown at Silbury in 1992, all quarter-day symbols were drawn with their lower "connecting" parts attached to a long, thin, circular line which represents one complete solar year. Thus the interpretation of their upper "symbolic" parts became especially straightforward, because no two single-character symbols were joined to one another in an overlapping fashion.  

Finally on the lower right-hand side of the diagram shown above, we can see a complex set of single symbols that have been joined by means of their lower "connecting" parts" into a long spiral, while their upper "symbolic" parts protrude above or below. That long spiral was meant to represent the 29.5-day phase cycle of our Moon, and has been interpreted elsewhere ("The Stonehenge Code"). 

Did the Tuatha de' Danaan have a wormhole?  

In the near future, when we attempt to decode more of these crop language glyphs from the summer of 1990, we will probably be addressing an archaeological problem rather than an alien one. Such symbols apparently come from a long-forgotten language which was in use 4000 to 5000 years ago in the British Isles, and perhaps Scandinavia; but today all we can find are tiny remnants of it that were carved into rocks, or incorporated into old calendar systems.