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One of the few
remaining crop pictures left to be solved from the summer of 2007 is
Stanton Bridge of July 14. It seemed to show a schematic version of
our Sun surrounded by nine planets. Many of us thought initially
that those could be the nine different planets of our Solar System,
with another small unidentified planet lying outside:
But when I tried
to decode the astronomical information shown there in terms of a
"nine planet plus Sun" hypothesis, I found no plausible
solutions, at any time in our past or our future.
A more
systematic starting-point for decoding that picture might come from
measuring the angle between its two largest circles, almost
certainly meant to represent the two giant planets Jupiter and
Saturn. That crop-based angle of 145 degrees happens to match
well the true angular separation of Jupiter and Saturn on the
upcoming date of a Venus-Sun transit on June 6, 2012. Could that be
what they are trying to say?
Stanton St. Bernard of August 12, 2007
One other crop
picture from the summer of 2007, namely Stanton St. Bernard on
August 12, told us symbolically that "as of August 18, 2007, there
will be only six Venus-Sun conjunctions left until transit in 2012":
Venus-Sun
conjunctions may be of two kinds: "inferior" where Venus comes
between Earth and the Sun, or "superior" where our Sun comes between
Venus and the Earth. Hence there will be three conjunctions of an
inferior kind between now and June 6, 2012, plus three conjunctions
of a superior kind. When added together, those two numbers give six.
Many cultures in
ancient central America used astronomical cycles of Venus as a basis
for their daily calendar. By showing a Mayan "six" at Stanton St.
Bernard, the crop artists made sure that we would associate their
Sun-Venus calendar with native cultures from ancient central America
(see my previous essays on this website).
Stanton Bridge of July 14, 2007
Now with
those ideas in mind, if we look again at that crop picture from
Stanton Bridge (see above), we can see that two small planets (one
lying outside the main circle, and another lying on top of it) line
up precisely with a three-pointed star at its centre.
Could those
three symbols be meant to represent "Earth" (outside), "Venus" (on
the line) and "Sun" (at its centre), in their
correct geometrical relationships for a Venus-Sun inferior
conjunction on June 6, 2012, when Venus will transit the face of our
Sun? If true, what could its other six medium to small-sized circles
be meant to represent?
Having already
assigned symbols to Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Earth and Sun, the only
two remaining plausible candidates might be Moon and Mars. Could
each of the three symbols shown there for "Moon" (medium-sized
circles) or "Mars" (small-sized circles) indicate certain sky
locations of those heavenly objects, on the next three dates
of inferior conjunction between Venus and our Sun? These
general hypotheses are summarized in Table 1 below.
Table 1. Venus-Sun conjunctions between
2007 and end of their calendar in 2013
|
Calendar date
(time 0000) |
Date of closest R.A.
Venus-Sun |
Type of Venus-Sun
conjunction |
Stanton Bridge of July
14 |
Stanton St. Bernard of
August 12 |
|
August 18, 2007 |
|
inferior |
0 |
0 |
|
June 9, 2008 |
|
superior |
|
1 |
|
March 27, 2009 |
March 24, 2009 |
inferior |
1 |
2 |
|
January 11, 2010 |
|
superior |
|
3 |
|
October 29, 2010 |
October 27, 2010 |
inferior |
2 |
4 |
|
August 16, 2011 |
|
superior |
|
5 |
|
June 6, 2012 |
June 5, 2012 |
inferior (transit) |
3 |
6 |
|
March 28, 2013 |
|
superior
(end of calendar) |
|
|
One other crop picture with similar logic appeared in 1995. It
showed five different R.A. values for Mars over the years
1995-2003, on the dates of five superior conjunctions of Venus
with our Sun, in order to mark a close approach between Earth
and Mars ( www.swirlednews.com/article.asp?artID=659).
Now in order to test that "Moon-Mars" hypothesis more accurately, I
used an astronomical almanac from Jodrell Bank ( www.jb.man.ac.uk/almanac) in
two ways. First, I determined on which days Venus and the Sun would
show their smallest differences of sky separation in R.A. or Right
Ascension, as seen in an imaginary plane relative to Earth's
equator. I thereby found three dates of March 24, 2009, October 27,
2010 or June 5, 2012 (column two above) that differ only
slightly from the Sun-centred dates (column one).
Next, I used that same astronomical almanac to find R.A. values for
the Moon and Mars on those three days of minimum separation in R.A. Such
data are listed in Tables A, B, C below. An abbreviation "Dec"
stands for "Declination", which is a standard partner to R.A. in
astronomical coordinates.
Table A.
Differences of R.A. or Dec for a Sun-Venus inferior conjunction (1)
on March 27, 2009
|
March |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
|
S-V
Δ
RA |
-14 min |
-9 |
-3 |
+3 |
+8 |
|
S-V
Δ
Dec |
-10 46 deg |
-10 09 |
-9 27 |
-8 47 |
-8 04 |
|
Moon RA |
21 27 |
22 13
|
22 58 |
23 44 |
0 31 |
|
Mars RA |
22 33 |
22 36 |
22 39 |
22 42 |
22 45 |
Table B.
Differences of R.A. or Dec for a Sun-Venus inferior conjunction (2)
on October 29, 2010
|
October |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
|
S-V
Δ
RA |
-10 min |
-4 |
+2 |
+8 |
+15 |
|
S-V
Δ
Dec |
-7 45 deg |
-7 04 |
-6 23 |
-5 40 |
-4 57 |
|
Moon RA |
4 19 |
5 17 |
6 15 |
7 13 |
8 09 |
|
Mars RA |
15 44 |
15 47 |
15 50 |
15 53 |
15 56 |
Table C.
Differences of R.A. or Dec for a Sun-Venus inferior conjunction (3)
on June 6, 2012
|
June |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
|
S-V Δ
RA |
-13 min |
-6 |
0 |
+6 |
+13 |
|
S-V Δ
Dec |
-1 00 deg |
-0 35 |
-0 11 |
+0 13 |
+0 36 |
|
Moon RA |
16 21 |
17 27 |
18 32 |
19 33 |
20 30 |
|
Mars RA |
11 10 |
11 12 |
11 13 |
11 15 |
11 16 |
Finally, when we
apply such true astronomical values of R.A. for the Moon or Mars to
Stanton Bridge of July 14, we find an excellent fit: to two
of its three medium-sized circles ("Moon"), and to all three of its
small-sized circles ("Mars").
The only anomaly
appears to be for "Moon-1". That particular circle ought to match a
calculated R.A. of 2258 on March 24, 2009. Hence it should lie very
close to "Mars-1" at 2239. Instead it was drawn slightly behind
"Mars-1", closer to 2213 (March 23) than to 2258 (March 24).
Could that be
a slight error in their astronomical almanac, extrapolated over
thousands of years in time? Or are they using a slightly different
coordinate system from ours?
The
unexpected calendrical significance of August 18, 2007
Having decoded
Stanton Bridge, we can see now that at least five crop pictures from the
summer of 2007 (Stanton Bridge of July 14, Stanton St. Bernard of August
12, Sugar Hill of August 1, West Overton of August 17, and North Down of
August 19) unexpectedly emphasized a calendar date of August 18, 2007.
That particular
day happened to coincide with a Venus-Sun inferior conjunction, but had
no other apparent significance.
A sixth crop
picture from East Field may have also referred to August 18 as "six days
past a new Moon on August 13", but we cannot be sure yet of its
interpretation.
Was that huge
pictorial effort meant simply to teach us about their Sun-Venus
calendar? If so, then their
ancient psychology must be very different from ours! Most humans
today watch TV or surf the web, whereas those crop artists seemingly
spent much of their time looking at the night sky, or building stone
astronomical observatories.
Field
orientations of Stanton Bridge from July 14 and Stanton St. Bernard from
August 12
Just when we begin to
feel overwhelmed by the high intellect of our crop artist friends, still
there is more to come. Both Stanton Bridge of July 14 and Stanton St.
Bernard of August 12 were drawn in their respective fields, so that each
picture would point on the horizon to where Venus or the Moon would rise
at sunset on August 18, 2007:
In other words,
moonrise on August 18 showed an azimuth of 230-240 degrees, and was
marked by the field orientation of Stanton St. Bernard. Venus-rise on
August 18 lined up with the setting Sun at an azimuth of 290-300
degrees, and was marked by the field orientation of Stanton Bridge.
Another astronomical event seems to be scheduled for November 21, 2007
One famous crop
picture from 2005 (at Wayland's Smithy on August 9) suggested
that another significant astronomical event might happen on November 21,
2007, but I seem unable to guess what it might be.
Wayland's Smithy
was drawn in the style of an Aztec-Mayan Sunstone, and provided two
dates in binary-hexadecimal format, using their Sun-Venus calendar.
The
difference between those two dates "14-5-11" or "13-10-7" equals
"0-11-4" in base-16. In the context of their Sun-Venus calendar, such a
difference corresponds to 0.04395 fraction of 18,980 days, or 834 (plus
or minus two) days after August 9, 2005
Red
Collie
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