THE MYSTERIOUS MOTIFS: Part 2

EVOLUTION OF CROP CIRCLES

In this post I wish to consider the 'history of crop circles'.
For my introductory post on them, do see my previous post:

http://kritigangwar.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-mysterious-motifs.html

The documentation of crop circles in more modern times (not considering the ancient texts , drawings and other representations) started in the early 20th century, with a gradual increase in numbers. A marked increase in crop circles was seen in the 1960’s and then in 1990’s. With at least 190 formations documented in 1999 alone!

Since 1980's, these motifs are no longer simply circular and display a great variety. It is interesting to note is that they are always different, meaning, no design is ever repeated and their complexity increases with passing years.

Not just the basic design of the motif, the bending methods have also become more and more sophisticated. Thus, the stems may be bent in opposite directions, perpendicular to each other, or alternatively in radial and circular fashion in a large circular crop circle, for example. This can be seen in "The basket" made in 1996 and then in 2006.

Similarly, often the centre of a motif is emphasised by a bunch of stems that are left standing. This bunch can be simple or sometimes intertwined. Sometimes they may be bent to form a cone shape in the centre.

In a large circle, three very distinct patterns may be seen:
In some, the stems can be flattened and oriented from the centre towards the exterior in very regular waves.
In others, they may be bent in alternative radial and circular patterns in concentric fashion creating circles within the larger circle.
Third pattern that is seen is when stem are laid down radially around a point that is not the geometric centre of the main circle. "Off-centre circle" (Yatesbury - June 2007)

Here is an overview of the evolution:
•1678: mowing devil: early representation of a crop circle.
•Swirled circles became multiple circles
•Multiple circles arranged non randomly
•1978: first quintuplet was seen
•celtic crosses appeared as quintuplets showed outer satellite circles connected via rings
•1990: triple ringer
•1998: seven fold geometry appeared
•1999: nine fold geometry
•2000: eleven fold geometry
•2003: thirteen fold geometry
•Many crop circles these days are essentially 2-D representation of 3-D designs: like tetrahedron (1991)

Here are some interesting links:
http://www.crop-circles.eu/pages/origine_agroglyphes.php?lang=en

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_14.htm

Photo credits:
Christophe Esti val
Daniel Harran
Nick Nicholson
Lucy Pringle
Ulrich
Some photographs have been taken from:
http://youtu.be/BndVb1ucKOA

Next we will try put our heads together and speculate what these crop circles are trying to tell us.

THE MYSTERIOUS MOTIFS

CROP CIRCLES

These aren't just found on crops to call them 'agroglyphs' and often they are more complex to call them 'circles'. Thus the (derogatory ?) umbrella term- Motif

WHAT AND HOW

I was planning to simply write about what new information I have gathered about the crop circles but then I thought it would be better to begin from the beginning.

WHAT ARE THEY

Crop circles/ crop formations are patterns created by the flattening of a crop such as wheat, barley, rye, maize, or rapeseed but can be found in fields, over tree-tops, and in ice and snow. They are a world wide phenomena with around 10000 recorded cases in the past century. Although reporting of these began in the 20th century, many ancient texts/ diagrams suggest their creation by extraterrestrials (as suggested by some Egyptian drawings). Some cryptologists and others suggest that crop circles are depicted in prehistoric stone and wall carvings, such as in the spiral patterns carved in a stone at New Grange in Ireland.

The study of the crop circle phenomena is called Cerealogy, in paranormal circles. Cerealogists commonly refer to these designs as agroglyphs or landscape art.

WHY EXTRATERRESTRIAL

Daniel Harran (Crop-Circles.eu) has given us excellent insight enough to convince any sceptic to believe in the extraterrestrial origin of these.

He talks about the tiny details as seen upon personally visiting these circles: both via naked eye and by examining the soil/plants in the area. But physical and chemical examination isn't all. The energy of the area, water content of the involved plant, the powdery residues found at the site, and even the increased yield by those plants (remember they are carefully bent after softening the stem and not broken) have also been studied with remarkable findings.

Daniel writes:
"Multiple scientific analyses were made which have shown some notable modifications in the biological properties of the cereals in comparison to witness samples taken outside the formation :
node elongations,
water content reduced in these nodes,
perforation or bursting of some nodes,
significantly improved germination power (the sown seeds give stronger plants, and produce themselves more seeds), when the formation appeared in a ripe crop..."

"... physical and chemical modifications of the soils, inside the formations :
amazing growth of the crystalline structure of some constituents of clay in the soil inside the formation, in comparison to witness samples taken outside,
strange deposits of a white powder in the centre of some circular formations in Netherlands. This powder was analysed by a laboratory of the university of Amsterdam, it was made of magnesium hydrocarbonate,
unusual concentration of meteoritic dust (iron oxides). These particles exist in the atmosphere, at a very low concentration. Inside some crop circles, contents were found until several hundreds higher than outside, which shows that these particles were attracted and concentrated by the application of a strong magnetic field when the formation was created."

It was also observed that parallel dowsing sticks amplify the variation of energy when one penetrates and when one leaves a crop formation.

Although a great many crop circles are in fact made by humans ( sometimes for advertising campaigns) they clearly have no associated variations as seen by those made by the extraterrestrials. Also, they often lack the complexity and take a team effort for a significant duration of time to be accomplished.

Thus, despite a few 'so and so conned the world' claims, I know there are a lot of us who now believe that these circles are more than just that.

In the next posts we shall see the evolution of the crop circles and what purposes they might be serving.

Some interesting links: (I am having trouble embedding these)

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_14.htm

http://www.crystalinks.com/croptheories.html