The Aztec-Mayan Calendar Meets Modern Computers by C. Lewis

The Aztec-Mayan Calendar Meets Modern Computers
by C. Lewis

Our current "Aztec-Mayan century" will end on December 21, 2012 or digitally 2012.973. It began 52 years ago in late 1960 or 1960.973. The Mayans assigned 52 years to their "century", because they used both 365-day and 260-day calendars. After 52 years, the two calendars would coincide. Thus 52 x 365 = 73 x 260 = 18,980 days, or 18,993 with leap years. Their ancient but sophisticated calendar was immortalized in 1479 AD by an Aztec king, who commissioned a huge rock carving known as the "Sunstone" (Figure 1), today a major cultural symbol of Mexico.

Figure 1

The "crop artists", whomever they might be, have recently based a series of increasingly complex pictures on that ancient Sunstone motif. For example in 2004, they drew in the fields near Silbury Hill a spectacular Sunstone picture which made BBC news, and which contained many elements of the original Mayan time-counting system (Figure 2).

Their message-in-pictures told us that "we have only 52 / 6 = 8.67 years left until the End of the Fourth Sun in late 2012" (CCC website last year). More specifically, it said that the current Mayan century had 1 / 6 part remaining on a calendar date of 2012.973 - (52 / 6) = 2004.306, which corresponds to late March 2004, four months before the pattern appeared.

Now yet another amazing Mayan crop picture appeared on August 9, 2005 near Wayland's Smithy: again based on the ancient Sunstone motif, but with certain novel variations (Figure 3).

Figure 3

First and foremost, the new 2005 Mayan picture shows two different calendar dates in binary-hexadecimal format, which is a modern computer code although of universal appeal (see two diagrams below).

One coded date is "13-10-7-10-13", while the other is "14-5-11-5-14". Two broad arrows tell us in which direction left-right to read the binary code. Sixteen (2 x 8) fine lines tell us to read it in base-16, hexadecimal format. Since both series of five numbers are redundant, one might reasonably guess that the underlying calendar dates could be composed of just three numbers each as "13-10-7" or "14-5-11". Such three-digit dates might then represent fractional parts of our current Mayan century: where "0-0-0" would be its start, and "16-0-0" its end. Mayan Long Count uses five digits, which is perhaps why the crop artist drew his (or her) dates in that way.

The first calendar date "13-10-7" seems to be just our current date for the 2005 crop season. Thus 13 + 10/16 + 7/256 = 13.6523 out of 16.0000 for a complete Mayan century, or fractionally 0.8533 = (44.370 / 52.000), giving 44.370 years from its start in 1960.973 to yield 2005.343. The difference between this year's date 2005.343 and last year's date 2004.306 is just 1.037, or one year and 13 days.

The second calendar date of "14-5-11" yields a similar calculation of 14 + 5/16 + 11/256 = 14.3555 out of 16.0000 for a complete Mayan century, or fractionally 0.8972 = (46.655 / 52.000), giving 46.655 years from its start in 1960.973 to yield 2007.628. What could this mean? Evidently the crop artist considers a near-future date of 229 days into the year 2007 (mid-August) to be very important, for reasons about which we can only speculate at present.

Finally, the crop artist drew a "Fourth Sun" at the very centre of that Mayan 2005 picture in the form of a 15% crescent: because he or she wished to confirm that "our current Mayan century is now 85% complete", in good accord with the binary-hexadecimal value of 0.8533.

Best wishes, C. Lewis ("Out of the Silent Planet", 1939)

Notes: There is a nagging 13-day sloppiness somewhere in my math that I cannot pinpoint. Did the crop artist make a mistake, and not account correctly for leap years? Hence that is why we cannot say on what day exactly in mid-August 2007 something will happen. Any hexadecimal date of three digits should be accurate to within 4 days, relevant to a full Mayan century.

The crop artists apparently switched this year to binary-hexadecimal format, so they could provide us with calendar dates more accurately. Indeed, they seem to have kept the option of making a similar formation next year: just by changing the "13-10-7" date by plus-one year, and by making the crescent Sun a bit smaller.

Woolstone Hill, another crop formation made after Wayland's Smithy, in the neighbouring field, seems again to show a "Fourth Sun" at its centre, but this time as a six-pointed star. It also shows "16 boxes" around that central Sun, which are presumably the 16 hexadecimal parts of our current Mayan century, described above.

Now in that new Woolstone Hill pattern, the first 15 boxes follow a regular pattern of 90-degree-rotation between neighbouring boxes, until the very last or sixteenth box is reached; then the pattern "breaks".

This would seem to imply that the final hexadecimal "box" of our current Mayan century, namely mid-2009 to late 2012, will be different from all the rest.

C. Lewis

MORE NOTES

The Silbury Mayan 2004 finale said in simple graphical terms: "There are only 52 / 6 years remaining until the End of the Fourth Sun in late 2012". The ancient Mayans used 52 years as their "century", proceeding in our case from late 1960 to late 2012.

In late March 2004, exactly 1 / 6 of that final 52-year time-period was left, hence the crop drawing: a final "box" symbolic of 52 years was subdivided with 6 small fine lines, while a central "clock hand" pointed at the last 1 / 6 line before the end of our current Mayan century.

Now the Wayland's Smithy 2005 formation also chose as its basic time unit, "one Mayan century" or 52 years, extending from late 1960 to late 2012. And it showed a central crescent Sun to indicate that only 15% is remaining (a bit less than last year). More importantly, it showed two calendar dates in modern computer format, namely binary-hexadecimal or base-16. One of these was "13-10-7", while the other was "14-5-11".

If you learn how to read binary-hexadecimal, where "15-15-15" is like 9-9-9 in our base-10 system, while "16-0-0" is like 10-0-0, you will see right away that "13-10-7" gives a calendar date very close to 1 year after the same date in late March supplied by the 2004 Silbury drawing.

Whereas "14-5-11" gives a date two years from now in mid-August 2007, or 229 days into the year 2007.

Finally, the new Woolstone Hill 2005 drawing, laid out next to W.S. in a neighbouring field, shows a central six-pointed star surrounded by 16 boxes, each containing 8 line segments of varying length.

In the context of Wayland's Smithy, we can imagine that the central six-pointed star represents our own Fourth Sun which is about to end (cf. 1997 drawing of a similar kind, saying "26 x 30 weeks left until 2012"). Then its surrounding 16 "boxes" would represent the 16 hexadecimal parts of our 52-year Mayan century, beginning in late 1960 and ending in late 2012, each lasting for 3.25 years.

Finally, if you look at those 16 "boxes" carefully, say by focusing on the shortest line within any box, you will see that each box rotates in general by 90 degrees relative to its neighbour. Thus a numerical pattern of the kind 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16 is created; yet that pattern "breaks" on the last box to read: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-15!

The schematic drawing of Woolstone Hill by B.Z. on your website does not show these important details correctly, and might be amended perhaps?

So Woolstone Hill seems to mean: "everything will go according to past pattern in our current Mayan century, until the last 1 / 16 part (mid-2009 to late-2012) when the course of events change".

In summary, all three crop patterns---some of the most intricate ever created---seem to focus on the near-future date of late 2012 as a significant time indeed. According to Mayan legend, it will be the time of a great worldwide earthquake, also prophesized in other ancient cultures including Judaism, Christianity or the Muslim faith.

The last predicted Mayan date, supposedly a great flood in 3114 B.C., was recently evidenced by ice cores on Kilimanjaro, and quick-frozen animals or plants worldwide (Europe, Siberia or Peru).

The crop artists have further warned us of two other dates preceding 2012: namely mid-August 2007; and all times after mid-summer 2009. One might guess that those could feature precursor earthquakes, similar to Sumatra of December 2004?

How could any advanced intelligence know about earthquakes far in advance? Well, there is a somewhat heretical theory in astronomy known as the "galactic superwave theory", which argues that our Milky Way (like other spiral galaxies) may periodically emit x-rays or gravity waves from its black-hole centre (quantum emissions from a binary black hole) once every 5120 years.

The mace-like crop drawing of earlier this year may perhaps illustrate such a theory in greater detail. It seems to show a central "mace-like" ball exploding in six spatial directions +x, -x, +y, -y, +z, -z, where an emitted spherical wave, travelling outward at light-speed c, has already reached some star systems, but has not yet reached others. A similar "expanding wave" was illustrated also at Serpent Mound in the USA three years ago.

Therefore, if a "galactic superwave" is really headed for Earth from the galactic centre, at close to light speed c, then advanced intelligences from elsewhere could only know about it, if they can travel faster than light speed c themselves!

Just like a man in a speedboat, who sees a tsunami headed for some tropical island: he goes there as fast as he can to warn the natives, but they refuse to listen! And they probably would kill him if he stepped ashore to talk in person.

In summary, my modest suggestion (like Jonathon Swift) is that all of the "crop people" including Mark and his friends, Linda and her friends, and any others of quality and intelligence, get together in person or on the web to discuss these new ideas openly and freely, until most reasonable people understand them; then proceed to communicate them carefully to the public while remaining as reputable as possible?

Before the next date of mid-August 2007 is reached? After that date, of course, many people will start to believe, so long as it is publicly recorded beforehand. Which may well be the crop-artists' intent?

"Much pain but still time." They seem to be doing everything they can to talk to us: even making a copy of Carl Sagan's message, and sending it back to us! Maybe they did at first send radio signals to the SETI program, but such messages were censored? So now they are making crop pictures instead?

I hope all of you can forget past differences, and work amicably towards a greater understanding of these amazing messages, in accord with the crop artist's wishes.

C. Lewis