The
hidden and remarkable secret of a crop picture which appeared
near Ridgeway on June 26, 2014: a field image of the Hyades star
cluster in constellation Taurus, accompanied by the nearby
landscape image of a “labyrinth”, and also by the numbers “3”
and “0”
A
crop picture which appeared at Ridgeway on June 26, 2014 has
remained enigmatic and poorly understood for the past three
days. Finally by comparing images of the specific landscape near
this crop picture, with known star maps of the night sky, we
have arrived at a much clearer understanding of what it was
trying to say.
On
the night of June 25-26, 2014, our Moon was moving through the
constellation Taurus, past several bright stars of the Hyades
star cluster including Aldebaran. A new crop picture was then
drawn on that night close to the centre of large “Z-shaped”
pattern in the farm landscape, which has been marked with three
dashed blue lines below:
This
“Z shape” as created by several farmer’s fields matches a “Z
shape” of stars in the Hyades cluster, plus some of its
surrounding stars, in Earth’s night sky. Please see an inset of
real stars from our night sky in the slide above! A small yellow
arrow marks where the bright orange star Aldebaran should
located in the landscape, according to this “star map”. We can
see in that field location a small, round landscape feature as
marked with a yellow arrow
Three large, yellow circles were added to suggest how three
nearby large, round groups of trees match three other bright
orange stars from the upper part of the Hyades cluster.
On
the right, a humorous-looking “bird” or “fish” looks up at those
“stars” with two “black, beady eyes”. A long thin line which
runs through its “beak” lines up with part of the stellar sky
map.
Now
when we study the new crop picture in even closer detail, we
find that it was drawn close to the centre of a “Z shaped” set
of crop tramlines, which again match well (on a small scale)
that stellar Z-shaped configuration from the night sky above:
A
large open circle as drawn in crops (on the left) was meant to
represent the bright, orange star Aldebaran. Three small circles
which were drawn in crops (on the right) were intended to match
a triangular set of less bright, blue stars which lie just to
the right of Aldebaran in Earth’s night sky.
The
crop artist has drawn only four stars from a more
numerous stellar array. Might he be trying to suggest a date
four days later on June (26 + 4) = 30? Or could his choice of
pattern mean something else? Three small crop “stars” have been
grouped into a triangle of “3”, while one large crop “star” by
itself might represent “0”.
All
of these stars from the Hyades cluster reside in a constellation
known as “Taurus the Bull”. That constellation was
given its name 3000 years ago in ancient Crete, because it
resembles the bull-like shape of a “Minotaur” which was known
there in popular culture. The residents of ancient Crete even
put an image of that “Minotaur” on some of their coins around
500 BC.
How
might Taurus the Bull and a legendary Minotaur relate to the new
crop picture at Ridgeway? Well, if we look just a little further
away in the landscape from where that crop picture was drawn, we
can see a square “labyrinth” shape, similar to the real
labyrinth which was once used to house (or imprison) a Minotaur
in ancient Crete:
What
a complex and amazing set of symbols!
To
recap, we can see on a small scale a “Z shape” in crop
tramlines. This matches the Hyades star cluster and its
surrounding stars in Earth’s sky. At the centre of that small “Z
shape”, we can see four “stars” from the Hyades which were drawn
explicitly in crops (Aldebaran and three others). Those four
stars were grouped to suggest the numbers “3” and “0”.
On a
somewhat larger scale, we can see that same “Z shape” repeated
once again across several fields. Here a large round shape in
the landscape marks the analogous location of bright star
Aldebaran.
On a
very large scale, we can see how three round groups of trees
suggest three bright, orange stars from the upper part of the
Hyades star cluster. They also suggest a number series such as
“1-2-3 > 4”. Several rectangular buildings in field below (not
shown here) are likewise grouped as “2-3-4”.
A
square “labyrinth” shape lies just below that “Hyades star map”
in the landscape, from the constellation Taurus. Is someone
planning to enter a metaphorical “labyrinth” soon to slay a
“minotaur”? Four other “labyrinth” images have appeared so far
in crops this summer: on June 1 at Hod Hill, on June 8 in
Serbia, on June 12 in France, or on June 17 at Badbury (if we
count its “rings”)
Finally on the right we can see a large “bird” or ”fish”, who
seems to be watching all of this in amusement with two “black,
beady eyes”. We can also see other landscape symbols whose
meanings are not yet well understood. Perhaps the final
interpretation of this crop picture still lies in our future? We
wait with keen anticipation to see what happens next!
Red
Collie
(Dr. Horace R. Drew)
P,S,
During the summer of 2013, those same large, round groups of
trees were used on August 13 to create a “star map in the
landscape”, which predicted the precise location of Nova
Delphini within a “summer triangle” of stars one day later on
August 14 (see
www.cropcirclearchives.co.uk/archives/2013/hackpenhill4/articles.html).