Appendix. Further interesting details of the new crop picture at
Windmill Hill on July 26, 2011: on the field or in terms of
Mayan calendars
Several field details from Windmill Hill seem quite consistent
with the Mayan calendar interpretations noted above. For
example, when we look carefully at a series of circles “1 to 14”
along its outer edge, we can see a standing ring of crop in
circle “14”. That could be intended to mark
July 26, 2011 as its date of formation by 14 = (10 + 4)
= 12.19.18.10.4 in the Long Count:
Elsewhere in the same crop picture, we can see a series of
13 circles which help to mark a date of
13.0.0.0.0 in the Long Count, equal to December
23, 2012. This is the same scheme of correspondence used
in most calendar conversion programs (see
www.pauahtun.org), as well as the end-date favored by Mayan
scholar Linda Schele (see
www.famsi.org). An end-date for the Long Count as shown in
crops at Avebury Manor in 2008 was likewise December 23, 2012.
Now what about the Tzolkin? We learned from this new crop
picture at Windmill Hill that 12.19.18.14.18 in the Long Count
equals October 28, 2011 in our modern calendar,
and also equals 13 Ahau in the Tzolkin, because it
marks the end of same 260-day calendar cycle. Calleman proposes
an identical date of October 28, 2011 equal to 13 Ahau for an
end to the current Tzolkin calendar (see
www.calleman.com ).
Don Alejandro, the Mayan elder, speaks of a date 13 Ahau close
to the end of the 12th baktun for when “men of
wisdom” will return to Earth (see
watch).
Yet when we use calendar conversion programs on the web, we
often find that those programs give a date in the Tzolkin for
October 28, 2011 of 11 Etznab (two days earlier) rather than 13
Ahau. This cannot be correct, even if we are used to accepting
the results of computer programs on blind faith! The simplest
way to resolve this dilemma would be to suggest that the Mayan
Tzolkin calendar may have begun two days before the Long Count,
on August 11 rather than August 13 in 3114 BC:
Likewise the current Tzolkin calendar may end two days before
the Long Count, on December 21 rather than December 23 in 2012
AD. In that case, October 28, 2011 from our modern calendar will
equal 12.19.18.14.18 in the Long Count, and also will equal 13
Ahau in the Tzolkin, as suggested by the new crop picture at
Windmill Hill.
