Silbury Hill (2), nr Beckhampton, Wiltshire. Reported 2nd August.

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Updated Friday 13th  August 2004

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The DOOMSDAY Crop Circle?

(The Farmer is charging just £1 to see it)

This Amazing  Crop Circle features an Ancient Egypt mosaic in the centre and symbols from the Mayan Calendar around the rim. The Calendar predicted the end of the world in 2012, will be feature in the New Crop Circle Connector DVD CIRCLECHASERS 2004  out in October.  The Current Best Crop Circle DVD of 2003 is OUT IN THE FIELDS 2003 is available  now.


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 Image Nick Nicholson Copyright 2004


SILBURY HILL - PHASE 2, August 3, 2004

Image Roiland Beljon Copyright 2004

Diagram Bertold Zugelder Copyright 2004

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Image Steve Alexander Copyright 2004


Silbury Hill Design and Aztec God, Xochipilli

© 2004 by Linda Moulton Howe


Phase 2 of Silbury Hill design on August 3, 2004.
Aerial photograph © 2004 by Roiland Beljon.


Phase 1 of Silbury Hill design first reported on August 2, 2004.
Digital Video Image © 2004 by Andreas Feliziani and Cropcircleconnector.com.  
 

August 4, 2004 Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, England - Whoever, or whatever, is responsible for the August 2 to 3, 2004, crop formation at Silbury Hill, the design in its border is a mirror image of a rare statue of the Aztec God, Xochipilli, The Prince of Flowers, Maizes, Love, Games, Beauty, Song and Dance. Xochi means 'flower,' while pilli means either prince or child. In the mid-1800's, a 16th century Aztec statue of Xochipilli was unearthed on the side of the volcano Popocatapetl near Tlamanalco, Mexico. The statue is of a single figure seated upon a temple-like base.
 


Xochipilli statue photograph, Mysteries of the Ancient Americas
© 1986 Pegasus/Reader's Digest.

Both the statue and the base upon which it sits are covered in carvings of sacred and psychoactive flowers including mushrooms (Psilocybe aztecorum), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), morning glory (Turbina corymbosa), sinicuichi (Heimia salicifolia), possibly cacahuaxochitl (Quararibea funebris), and one unidentified flower. The figure itself sits crosslegged on the base, head tilted up, eyes open, jaw tensed, with his mouth half open. The statue is currently housed in the Museo Nacional de Anthropologia of Mexico.
 
The ancient Aztec statue's repeating base design of 90-degree mazes back-to-back is similar to, but curving in the opposite direction of, the August 3, 2004, border at Silbury Hill.
 


Above:
Carved base of the 16th century Aztec statue of Xochipilli.
Below: Border in second phase of the Silbury Hill wheat formation reported on August 3, 2004.
Blow-up from aerial photograph © 2004 by Roiland Beljon.

June 3, 2001 - Variation On The Aztec Motif?
 


Wakerly Woods, Barrowden, Northamptonshire, reported June 3, 2001.
Aerial photograph © 2001 by Nick Nicholson.

Cycles of Time, in Life and Death
In Mysteries of the Ancient Americas, the book states: "To the Aztec, as to all ancient Mesoamerican peoples, time proceeded not linearly, but in cycles. ... Just as the world was created, destroyed and recreated time and again, so smaller units of time repeated themselves. ...If life was impermanent for the Aztec, so, in the last analysis, was death. Life contained the inevitability of death, but death held within it the certainty of rebirth. For the Aztec, as for other native American peoples, death meant passage from earthly life to another existence on a different plane in a multi-level universe. For some, it also meant even the possibility of return to earth, though in a different form."
 
Also see: http://www.erowid.org/entheogens/xochi/xochi.shtml

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Images Verity Bullock Copyright 2004

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Historically, the Aztec name for the huge basaltic monolith is Cuauhxicalli Eagle Bowl, but it is universally known as the Aztec Calendar or Sun Stone. It was during the reign of the 6th Aztec monarch in 1479 that this stone was carved and dedicated to the principal Aztec deity: the sun. The stone has both mythological and astronomical significance. It weighs almost 25 tons, has a diameter of just under 12 feet, and a thickness of 3 feet.

 

The Mexicans, as all other Meso-Americans, believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the world. The "Calendar Stone" in the Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology) in Mexico City depicts in its central panel the date 4 Ollin (movement), on which they anticipated that their current world would be destroyed by earthquake, and within it the dates of previous holocausts: 4 Tiger, 4 Wind, 4 Rain, and 4 Water. .

Every 52 years the tonalpohualli and the xiuhpohualli calendars would align. This marked what was known as a Mesoamerican "century."

Tonatiuh's Face is the face of the sun, Lord of Heaven, around which takes place all daily and periodic phenomena.

 First Ring from Center. Four Ollin representing the Earthquake Epoch or Sun. The four epochs represented inside the square portions of this symbol correspond to the four previous epochs also called suns.

Second Ring - The second ring from the center is composed of 20 named days contained in one month, also used for naming years. Each year starts on one of four of these 20 days.

The Calendar date '4 Ollin' will be in 2012. Actually I made a mistake, in that only 19 fine lines show up for each inner clock-hand, not 20 (couldn't see from early photos)!  

   Hence the inner calendar actually reads (6 + 6).19.19 = 12.19.19 rather than 12.20.20 = 13.0.0 as for any full Sun of 5200 years. That is like writing "999" just before "1000", and means (like on the outer dial) that the end of the Fourth Sun is near: but only one year and not 8.67?  

   Alternatively, something important might be scheduled to happen next year (at the end of 2005), then something again in December 2012? A lot of intellectual content for a fake! Some additional physical or testimonial evidence is perhaps needed.  


Image Busty Taylor Copyright 2004


Look Again! 

I couldn't disagree more with the comments posted on your website by Andreas Muller about the Silbury Hill formation of 2nd August. Having visited this formation, whilst it was clear the crop was damaged in places, I could see nothing that specifically showed definitive signs of human circle making. The lay was wonderfully flowing inside the circle, not at all 'mechanical' as has been suggested. It certainly did not look heavily stomped! 

I don't know what the discs were that were found, but I find it hard to believe that anyone faking a circle would leave such damning evidence behind, it would rather give the game away, who would it fool? I doubt after going to all the considerable trouble of making a design of such scale they would spoil it at the last minute by not counting up all their markers!  

Assuming the discs are markers as Andreas says, I might be able to see the use of such markers when working in the daytime, but then again what would be the point at night? I doubt you would even be able to see them very well in the dark. Which makes me more than a little suspicious about their presence. It seems to me that the wetness between these discs could as easily be condensation as anything more sinister, it has been very hot and humid over the last few days.  

There has been a lot of negativity going around this year about hoaxing, no one wants to get caught out. But I hope you will publish my email on your page because I think that people should hear another point of view for balance. With respect (to Andreas Muller), It would be a shame if this important formation is simply written off on the basis of a little paranoia and the publication of only one point of view. I agree we should all be cautious and open to all possibilities, but this is different than writing something off categorically as a definitive hoax.

 
Keep up the good work!
 
Rachel Rice.

This new formation was discovered on August 2, on top of the field opposite Silbury Hill. As the aerial shows, it features the same kind of wings as the previous Milk Hill and Tan Hill formation but now in a kind of mix with a Vesica Pisces and this years Koch & Kyborg Experiment below Woodborough Hill. The formation is placed on a spot that is not visible from the passing road nor from the Silbury Hill car park. 

Beside a few better parts, the inside shows a rough executed, very heavily flattened and mechanical lay – portraying all sorts of evidence for human stomping activity. Finally just before we went out of the formation those conclusions got even more confirmed by the discovery of three white marking-plates numbered 2, 4 and 6 (See photos). Those are known to be used by several hoaxers (just as by “Team Satan/The Circlemakers” and are shown on several of their photos documenting commissioned formations) to point out and mark specific geometric positions in a nocturnal field. All three were placed on top of each other and when we took them apart they were watery wet in-between, showing more or less that they were not placed here just short time before we came in (at about 3:30pm) but already very likely during the night.

 
This formation shows not only the geometrical similarity to the previously mention Tan and Milk Hill formations but also in ground quality.
 
Andreas Muller

The Calendar Clock

The new Silbury crop-picture takes 'crop messages' to a new level! Anyone can see that it encodes some kind of important message, relevant to ancient Mayan-Aztec prophecy.

   So I spent several days learning Mayan-Aztec calendar systems, and now believe that the interpretation is unique and straightforward. It seems to be just a large "calendar clock", with time shown in four different units (analogous to days, hours, minutes or seconds) along the outside, plus a 'moving clock mechanism' in the center.

  Both 'inner hands' tell us that we lie precisely (52 / 6) = 8.67 years from the end of the 'Fourth Sun' in 2012.9, where 2004.6 (August) + 8.67 = 2012.9 (almost). The same picture would have had to be drawn in February 2004.2 to be perfectly accurate (no crops were growing then).

  Aztecs and Mayans used three different calendar systems with 260, 360 or 365 days per year, but the crop-artist for simplicity drew everything in 360-day 'years'.

Outer dial of the clock: 4 shaded areas represent 5200 years each, and symbolize four previous or current "Suns", just as for the Calendar Stone in Mexico.
10 outer boxes per Sun (over any 90 degree quadrant, with boxes 1 and 2 always shaded) represent 520 years each.
10 inner boxes per Sun (again over any 90 degree quadrant) represent 52 years each (the most fundamental Mayan unit of time covered 52 years, as the convergence of 365 and 260-day calendars).
Finally, because we lie so close to 2012.9, the crop-artist added a feature not present in Mayan-Aztec culture: he/she divided the two inner-boxes closest to any shaded region into finer divisions of (52 / 6) = 8.67 years, by means of (2 x 3) =6 fine-lines.

Now both "hands of the clock" point precisely to the last fine line before any shaded region, meaning that we lie today "8.67 years from the end of the Fourth Sun".

Inner hands of the clock: two 'bundles' of 20 fine lines tell us that we are working in Mayan-Aztec mathematics. For most historical dates or 'long count', the Mayans or Aztecs used powers of 20: for example 20 days per month, 20 years, 20 x 20 years, 20 x 20 x 20 years.
Thus within any 'Sun' of 5200 years (as shown four times on the outer dial), we find 13 x 20 x 20 = 5200 years calculated in another way, and sometimes represented as 13.0.0.
Looking again at the inner hands, we see however only (2 x 6) = 12 thick curves above and below: signifying 12.0.0, and indicating that 13.0.0 is near.

Summary: Two different Mayan-Aztec calendar schemes are encoded in the diagram, leaving no possibility for error.
The outer dial counts time as 52 x 10 x 10 =5200, and uses a set of six fine lines near any shaded area for greater accuracy, namely 52 / 6 = 8.67.
The inner hands count time as 12 x 20 x 20 or 12.0.0, since 13 x 20 x 20 = 13.0.0 = 5200 has not yet been reached.
Because the information provided in both parts is redundant, we can be sure that the interpretation is correct. In other words, "the end of the Fourth Sun is near and on schedule".  An incredibly clever scheme of pictorial mathematics.

C. Lewis


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The farmer was harvesting and stopping to avoid the circle!


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