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Another
“Moon Clock” was drawn in crops at Hackpen Hill on July 16, 2016, and it
still persists as a “ghost”, next to a new “Moon Clock” which was drawn
in crops on July 8, 2017
An “old”
crop picture from Hackpen Hill on July 16, 2016 was originally
interpreted as “sharks biting”, because it was a companion to another
crop picture nearby on June 23, 2016, which showed “two sharks circling
a Celtic triquetra”. That was a reasonable interpretation, because
several artistic motifs within that “old” crop picture look like
“shark’s teeth” which are “biting down” on something!
Now one year
later, the “old” crop picture still persists as a “ghost”, next to a new
“Moon Clock” picture which was drawn in crops on July 8, 2017. We will
show here how the “old” crop picture may be understood, not only as
“sharks biting”, but also as another kind of “Moon Clock”, so as to
match the “new” crop picture of July 8, 2017 conceptually.
Draw another
large circle of the same size on the left, then extend two lines out
tangent to it
The key to
understanding that “old” crop picture (as a “Moon Clock”) is to realize
that we have to draw another large circle outside of the crop picture
itself, with exactly the same diameter, as the major outer diameter of
the 2016 crop picture. This will then allow us to extend the length of
two “edges” from any “step pyramid” triangle which was drawn inside.
In the slide
below, we have outlined the major outer perimeter of that 2016 crop
picture in “blue” on the right. Then we have drawn another large circle,
which has been outlined in “orange”, outside and on the left. This
“orange” circle has exactly the same diameter as the “blue” circle, and
is tangent to it. We have filled that large “orange” circle with the
image of a “half-shaded Moon”:
Next we can
extend the two outer “edges” of any “step pyramid” triangle, which was
drawn inside, by adding two thin, dashed “orange” lines which lie
precisely tangent to that large “orange” circle on the left.
Re-creating
the triangular geometry of “shadows from our Moon” during a solar
eclipse
These two
“orange” lines re-create, in an approximate sense, the triangular
geometry of a tiny, dot-like “umbral” shadow, which is cast by our Moon
along the surface of the Earth during a total (or annular) solar
eclipse. Please see the upper of two small, red arrows in a slide below:
Another
“black” circle of medium size, which was drawn in crops inside of a
large “blue” circle (which represents the total size of “planet Earth”
during a solar eclipse), may represent our Moon’s somewhat larger
“penumbral” shadow (see
eclipses). Please see the lower of two small, red arrows in a slide
above. The penumbral shadow is much larger than a tiny dot-like umbral
shadow, yet it remains smaller than the total size of Earth itself.
Three
half-lunar cycles until an annular solar eclipse on September 1, 2016
There was an
annular solar eclipse across much of Africa on September 1, 2016, just
three half-lunar cycles (or 47 days) after this “old” crop picture
appeared on July 16, 2017. Those three half-lunar cycles seem to match
three “half-Moon” shapes, which were drawn in crops along the outer
perimeter of the 2016 crop picture. Please see three “half Moon” images
which have been drawn at 120o angles from one another in the
slide above.
Three
half-lunar cycles until a total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017
Regarding
the new “Moon Clock” which was drawn in crops at Hackpen Hill on July 8,
2017, three out of six “half Moon” shapes along its outer perimeter
likewise match three half-lunar cycles (or 44 days), until the next
total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. They also match three
“half-Moon” shapes which persist in the same field, as a three-armed
“ghost” of the 2016 crop picture.
After going
around this new “Moon Clock” for just three of six half-lunar cycles, it
reaches a precise field alignment with the Hackpen Hill “White Horse” on
a hill nearby.
“Sharks
biting” or a “Moon clock”?
A dual
interpretation of this 2016 “ghost” crop picture, as “sharks biting” or
as a “Moon clock”, seems somewhat surprising. Yet “foolish consistency
is the hobgoblin of little minds” (see
A-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-adored).
Indeed, it
can be said without any doubt, that the excellent and inquiring minds of
those unseen crop artists are considerably more flexible, than the minds
of most people living on Earth today. So if they wish to re-interpret
one of their own crop pictures, once it becomes a “ghost”, who would
wish to object?
A clever
motional and geometrical relationship between field locations for the
2017 “Moon Clock” and 2016 “Moon Clock” at Hackpen Hill
When we
study carefully where both “Moon Clocks” from 2017 or 2016 were drawn,
nearby in the same field at Hackpen Hill, we can see that their 2017
“Moon Clock” may be placed into close juxtaposition with a “ghost” of
the 2016 “Moon Clock”, simply by “rolling” it clockwise through 180o,
which would be equivalent in time to three half-lunar cycles or 44 days:
Their 2017
“Moon Clock”, after it has been “rolled forward” by one-half turn in the
field, or by 44 days through time, then lies in the precise geometrical
location which is needed to produce the schematic image of an “eclipse”,
in combination with their 2016 “Moon Clock”. Put in another way, their
2017 “Moon Clock” then occupies the same geometrical location as a
“large “orange” circle, which was just shown in two other slides above.
These two
crop pictures are of identical size, and were drawn slightly offset from
one another in the field, so that one-half turn of clockwise rotation
will bring them together properly (as nearly as can be judged from
aerial photographs). There will be a real solar eclipse, of course, 44
days after July 8 when the new “Moon Clock” appeared.
This
crop-drawn puzzle, spread out over two years of time, was exceedingly
clever! But then they drew the image of a “6 x 6 x 6 Rubik’s Cube” in
almost the same field location on August 26, 2012 (see
hackpen-hill-cropcircle 2012), so we might have expected some
surprises.
Red Collie
(Dr. Horace R. Drew) |
