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Digital Graphic Rendering - Silbury Hill Crop Circle
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Digital Graphic Rendering - Silbury Hill Crop Circle
August 2004 - Silbury Hill, England - Crop Formation
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This is an digital graphic rendering of a recent crop circle at Silbury Hill in Great
Britain which I found particularly striking, and very mysterious. Crop circles in
general have become amazing artistic inspirations over the years.
A rendering, in this case, is an artistic expression of the contents of a photograph.
The design of the formation is both intricate and beautiful and the challenge of
recreating this crop circle was too much to resist.
Renderings from photographs are possible in a vector format only where contrast
and lighting are such that all details of the image are clearly defined. Other forms of
rendering a photo exist through using various plug-in filters in software packages
such a PhotoShop ... however resolution and therefore enlargement capability are
restricted.
The advantage of a vector rendering, such as the example on this page, is that the
finished image can be scaled almost limitlessly without loss of clarity.
ALIEN ARTISTS?
Image: Nick Nicholson ©2004
The Rendering
More Renderings
The “DOOMSDAY” Crop Circle?
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 Crop Circle Connector DVD
CIRCLECHASERS (2004).
The Calendar Clock
The 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.
by C. Lewis
C. Lewis Article Reprinted from www.cropcircleconnector.com
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