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Wayland's Smithy 2006 and the Mayan Long Count An amazing crop picture appeared at Wayland's Smithy on July 8, 2006 which was notable in several respects. First, it showed a highly talented use of three-dimensional perspective, for a drawing made from ordinary field crops. Secondly, it provoked much speculation about its deeper meaning: whether "rays from space", "skyscrapers", or "the two World Trade Towers"? Yet despite worldwide publicity on BBC News, no one has yet provided any clear, convincing explanation of what it was meant to say.
Here I would
like to suggest that Wayland's Smithy 2006 may have been intended
to illustrate a long-term astronomical
cycle within our galaxy, that could have provided an
original justification long ago, for setting up the famous Mayan
"Long Count" calendar.
That strange
calendar does not coincide with any planetary or lunar cycles as seen from
Earth (say of Venus, Mars, Jupiter or the Moon), as do all
other Mayan calendars. Instead it concerns itself solely with a supposed
"periodic destruction and re-creation of our planet" once every 5125 years.
Could such a historical anomaly have any real physical basis, in terms of a
long-term astronomical cycle outside of our Solar System, that affects the
entire galaxy?
Rays
from the galactic centre
To begin, let
us note first that the very
centre of our galaxy near Sgr A* contains a compact ring of 12
stellar sources (as shown by a circle of "red crosses" in the photograph
below), which loosely resemble a ring of 12 "star-like edges" found at the
centre of Wayland's Smithy 2006:
Next, looking at the entire crop picture, we can see that three sets of "four square rays" emerge from its 12-fold symmetric centre. The "square-ness" of each ray is apparently intended to signify an intensity-distance relationship from astronomy, where any ray-like emission gets weaker in intensity by 1 / d-squared as it proceeds to greater distance d from a source (also called the "inverse square law"):
One can
also see that, for any given length
of ray, three different rays
emerge in three different directions from
the star-like centre as (x1, y1, z1) or (x2, y2, z2) or
(x3, y3, z3) or (x4, y4, z4). These
are apparently meant to represent the three
x-y-z axes of normal
Euclidean space, when rotated to
different extents about the centre:
A
precise ratio of lengths
Now let us examine the relative lengths of rays within any set of four. Such rays appear on first inspection to be approximately of length 5, 4, 3 and 2, or equivalently 25, 20, 15 and 10. In each case, a putative short ray "5" is not shown, because it would lie under the longest "25":
To be more precise,
I measured the lengths of those
rays in two
sets least affected by perspective,
and found 97, 81, 57, 37 mm for one
set, or 93, 68, 51, 41 mm for the other.
Taking the average, one obtains 95, 75, 54 and 39
mm, while for a perfect ratio 25 / 20 / 15 / 10 / 5, one
would expect 95 / 76 / 57 / 38 / 19 mm. Pretty close!
What could all
of this mean? Why should the crop artists draw a periodic series of
astronomical rays emerging from the galactic centre, in three spatial
directions x-y-z, and of relative distance 25 / 20 / 15 / 10 / 5
from a central source?
Do
we have a periodically active galactic centre which emits energetic rays
once every 5000 years?
Here is one plausible explanation: Earth and Sun lie 26,000 light-years from the galactic centre while, according to the ancient Mayan calendar, five historical epochs or "Suns" total 5 x 5125 = 25,625 years. Now for astronomical rays travelling through space at speed c (light, gravity or neutrinos), those two numbers become essentially the same!
And so we see
in that crop picture, along each possible spatial direction x, y or
z, five emitted rays that are located 25,000, 20,000, 15,000 or
10,000 light-years from the centre (5,000 was not shown). Those are
precisely the intervals of space and time that one would expect for a series
of five "Suns" in the Mayan Long Count calendar:
Wayland's
Smithy 2006 therefore seems to imply
that our galactic centre emits "lots of rays" once every 5,000 years,
due to some long-term periodicity of orbits there (say for two nearby black
holes). Such a long-term periodicity, if true, would provide a
direct astronomical explanation for the otherwise
inscrutable Mayan "Long Count"
calendar; which was set up sometime in the distant past, to make mankind
"remember" a long 5125-year period between suddenly destructive events on
Earth.
The last of
those events supposedly happened in 3114 BC ("flood'), while the next is
scheduled for December 2012 AD ("earthquake"). A glaciologist from Ohio
State, Lonnie Thompson, has recently shown by radio-isotopic dating that
there was indeed "sudden climate change" on Earth around 3114 BC, with huge
excess rainfall near the Equator.
But we should
not go to excess and think apocalyptically here, just because of some
ancient Mayan calendar from the mists of history, that happens to
be illustrated in a crop picture from Wiltshire! Even if the last "end of a
Mayan Sun" had big effects on Earth climate or geology, there is no reason
to believe that every such event will be equally energetic or severe.
Another hidden code in the same picture
Now we seem to
understand the basic principles that underlie Wayland's Smithy 2006. But one
final question remains: supposing that the "longest" astronomical ray
shown there ("25") is scheduled to
reach Earth in 2012 AD, why are those crop
artists showing it to us now, six years earlier?
It may be hard
to see from photographs shown so far, but a "grid"
of extra mini-circles appears within
the white-square-end
of each "long"
ray in Wayland's Smithy 2006, three times
in total. Each of those grids contains approximately 7 x 8 = 56
mini-circles, and was presumably meant to tell "time
left" until that longest ray reaches Earth
(since no grids appear at the ends of any other rays):
If we interpret
that subtly coded message to mean "56 weeks", then
could some small
part of the longest
ray (scheduled in total for
2012 AD) reach Earth around August 6, 2007, given
that the crop picture
appeared on July 8, 2006? Or
could the code mean something else?
As our
best-known example from the past, a 26 x 30 grid found at Etchilhampton in
1997 clearly meant "26 x 30 = 780 weeks or 15 years", from its date of
formation in 1997 to the end of our current Mayan Long Count in 2012:
Three other related crop pictures from 2005 or 2006
One year
earlier on July 10, 2005, another "centre of the galaxy exploding" picture
appeared at Lane End Down (also called "the mace"). There an outward wave
was shown to be expanding spherically along three spatial axes x-y-z,
in both directions positive and negative.
Slightly
less than one year before on August 9, 2005, a different picture in the
same field (Wayland's Smithy)
showed a "Mayan Sunstone", and used a
52-year Mayan calendar to provide
several dates in binary-hexadecimal
format. One of those was interpreted as
August 13-16, 2007 (see above).
One month
later on August 15, 2006, a spectacular "gravity wave" picture appeared at
Etchilhampton Hill (also called "Lamat"). Its possible relation to the
ray-like crop picture discussed above seems obvious.
The deep, logical consistency of all four crop pictures from Lane End Down (July 2005), Wayland's Smithy (August 2005), Wayland's Smithy (July 2006) and Etchilhampton (August 2006) argues for the design and field-implementation of these highly intellectual messages by advanced scientists of some kind, and not by any known human fakers.
Red Collie
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