Guarino Guarini: Dome of San Lorenzo,

Turin, 1668-1687

The design is almost exactly like my drawing of the eight faces in interlocking rings.

Comparing the photo of the dome to my drawing, strangely, the arching beams suggested circles that enclosed windows that were shaped somewhat like faces.

Notice that a similar type of star is formed by the interlocked circles in the first two links above (the eight faces in interlocking rings and the Dome of Turin).

After I drew the interlocking ring diagram, I recalled that I saw another shape in a dream the previous month. It was a circle with curved lines into the center. A voice spoke in the dream, saying that this represented a closed aperture, like that on a camera. This was refering to how wheatstalks in some crop circles laid down in a somewhat similar pattern

Compare this dream drawing to the glyph from the James Churchward Book of MU which Dee wrote about on The Most Important Crop Circle from 1999.

While visiting relatives in October 1990, showed my niece the two depictions on pages 56 and 57 of the book Myths -

The text explained

One of the most fascinating phenomena in the field of mythology is the similarity between widespread religious and mystical experiences. Such similarities extend not only to modes of thinking and believing but also to modes of pictorial representation. A startling comparison is offered by the two illustrations on this page: a Buddhist mandala (left) embodying the teaching of the Guhyasamaja Tantra, and a Navaho sand painting (right) entitled People of the Myth."

I showed my niece, in the book, the similarity of the Navaho sand painting to the Buddhist mandala. After a moment, she shouted, "Look! There's one of your chits!" She pointed to the center of the Buddhist mandala, referring to the flower-like shape. I took one of my chits off of the ring, which I carried with me all the time, and placed it over the mandala. It was an exact fit!

See how similar it is to this Buddhist Mandala:

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In July of that same 1990 I had a dream of an electrical splice box. There were two electrical cables on each side. The wires inside the splice box were disconnected, but had numbers on them.

I knew the meaning . . . it symbolized that people are not connected, but they could be connected easily, because the wires had numbers indicating which wires were supposed to be connected together.

When I found the Joseph Campbell book in the library some weeks later, I also found the book about mythology titled Myths. It includes the writings of a number of authors. The editor of the book is Alexander Eliot. I was startled later, when I reviewed my notes and saw my drawing of the splice box again. I realized then, that it was quite similar to a depiction in the Myths book. I found the depiction again, and compared it to my dream. It was the Navaho sand painting with two people, apparently a male and female couple, on each side of a square shape -

In October, 1990, I awoke from another dream with the idea to "hook up the wires" of the splice box. I knew it was meant to be a geometric pattern, based on the dream and the Navaho sand painting. I experimented with a number of shapes, by drawing eight stick figures around a square, two on each side -

I "connected the wires, by drawing lines between the feet of the people, and simplified it into a regular eight-pointed star -

This seemed to connect my various dreams and experiences together.

This is the Navaho Sand Painting from - People of the Myth

Here is another example: Navaho Sand Painting - 8 People around Square

Nine Chits in the Diamond Arrangement from Humanity on the Pollen Path Part 4

I got the idea for the arrangement from this depiction in the book, "Myths" -

Several years later , about 1994, I learned about Gematria (ancient number systems)  where words have number meanings and numbers have word meanings, I discovered that 9 x 128 = 1152 and 1152 means 'Witness'.

Code of the Ancients

Ancient Numerology

Tantric Yantra

See the 16 goddesses around the edge of the Tantric Yantra

In Part 3 of Humanity on the Pollen Path, I explained the coincidence of this symbol:

Sri Yantra from The Tantric Way

Here you see the eight and the sixteen like the crop glyph above.

Here is another depiction of the same symbol:

Sri Yantra (standard design)

This was, of course, the symbol that appeared grooved into the Oregon lake bed in 1990, that was so "coincidental" to my drawing:

Oregon`s sri yantra. A gift of the Circlemakers

One meanings of the Sri Yantra is that it represents creation from the central single point, outward. Another meaning is the path inward to the source in nine steps that correspond to the chakra levels. In this sense, the sixteen-petal and eight-petal lotus flowers represent the second and third chakras.

I mentioned a symbol that is somewhat similar to the Sri Yantra in Part 3 of Humanity on the Pollen Path:

Kali Yantra

Notice that these yantras have an eight-petal lotus, similar to the new crop circle formation above.

Also notice that the yantras have a sixteen-petal lotus outside of the eight-petal lotus flower, and that the crop formation follows this arrangement.

The Bythorn Mandala crop circle formation of 1993 was quite similar to the Kali Yantra:

Bythorn Mandala Crop Circle Formation

However, this pattern had a ten-petal lotus flower. I believe that these are related to the chakras of the body which I wrote about in my article on Crop Formations as Chakras

I found that eight-pointed stars are a related symbol. These are examples from my notebooks:

8 Hearts forming the 8-pointed Star

8 People Forming Hearts

8-Pointed Star

These were based on my dream of the splice box.

8-Pointed Star from The Sacred Symbols of Mu

8-Pointed Star (2) from The Sacred Symbols of Mu

8-Pointed Star (3) from The Sacred Symbols of Mu

According to James Churchward in "The Sacred Symbols of Mu", the eight-pointed star, or eight-rayed Sun, was Mu's symbol on her the Royal Escutcheon. He states on page 123: "The name in the Motherland of the Sun as the celestial orb was - Kin. In Egypt the name was - Horus. In Greece - Apollo and in Babylonia - Belmarduk."

It was quite coincidental when I found this computer printout:

Mandelbrot Star

It is a portion of the computer-generated Mandelbrot Set, which also appeared as a crop formation in 1991:

Mandelbrot Set Formation "They are obviously not man-made — they are far too symmetrical for that." — Cambridge Weekly News,        15 August 1991

Out from the main glyph is a small eight foot circle. In the mathematics of a computer generated mandelbrot set, you will see that the point out from the tip becomes an 8 pointed star: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/julia/explorer.html  This is a clickable program from which the following 8 pointed star was generated.

"The Sacred Symbols of Mu" has many other eight-fold glyphs, including a flower-like design (figure 15), that is like the eight-petal flower of the new crop formation. Churchward gives the meaning : "Fig. 15 shows the earth's Forces passing out of her body into the atmosphere (they are thus drawn out by their affinitive Forces carried in the Sun's rays). Earthly Forces like elements become exhausted, and when exhausted the Sun's affinitive Forces have no further attraction or control over them. The Central Magnet then proceeds to draw them back into the great frictional line where they are regenerated and again sent to perform the duties required of them by nature. I may say further that this example of the workings and origin of earthly Forces may also apply to all revolving bodies throughout the universe, and thus show that a single Divine system is controlling the Universe."

Figure 15	Figure 22	Figure 23	Figure 9

"Figure 22 is a rare symbol. It is found in Hindu writings of about 4000 to 5000 years ago. This figure symbolizes the Sun sending forth his rays throughout his System (the solar). They are shown as being of two varieties - dark and invisible because of their intensity, and light, which are apparent to vision. The rays are in the form of Forces, as shown by the Force symbol. Again they are curved, pointing to the east and thereby telling us that they are working from west to east and forming a circle. As they are taking a circular route all rays coming from the Sun would not strike the earth in a straight line from the sun but in a curve.  This shows that our prehistoric Americans were further advanced in science than we are today. Do our present scientists appreciate this fact? Does this not show that we are thousands of years behind in our knowledge of science, based on theory alone? Personally, I think so. "

Figure 23 on page 227 is an eight-pointed star formed by two overlapping squares. It is another symbol of the Sun.

Figure 9 is more universally found among ancient writings.

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The same type of star appeared as a crop formation this month:

8-fold star, Silbury Hill (2), nr Avebury, Wiltshire 11th June.

http://cropcircleconnector.com/2000/silbury2/silbury2000b.html

Silbury Hill (2), nr Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 11th June.

GPS Reference SU09326892

Reconstruction of the Silbury 2000 crop glyph.

EIGHT-FOLD STAR

One of two formations that appeared June 11th near Silbury Hill in Barley. Over 200 feet in diameter. It had several little tufts with swirls around them, distributed randomly (?) in the Star.

The first formation (looking from Silbury Hill) is an eight pointed star created almost integrally out of downed crop which is surrounded by four concentric rings that give the formation a very orbital look. The outer ring gives us an overall diameter of 230ft. The interior of the rather impressive star has a number of small standing tufts with sunburst style sprays of barley radiating out from the base.

(A person mentioned that in one of John Michell's books, the 8-pointed star is the emblem of Joseph of Arimathea. You know of him bringing the holy grail to Glastonbury).

Known as the Knights Hospitalers, the order became, with Knights Templars, one of the most important military-political orders in the Holy Land.   The knights adopted a black outergarment decorated with a white eight-pointed star or cross -- an emblem later to be known as a maltese cross. While the Knights Templar were formally disbanded in 1314, the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem conquered the island of Rhodes from the Seljuk Turks in 1309 and transferred their headquarters there -- Christian control in the Holy Land being supplanted by Moslems. Full brother knights wore white mantles, lesser brothers wore brown or black colored mantles. In the year 1146 the Pope decreed that they were to wear the eight-pointed star, the Cross Pattee upon the left breast of their mantles.

In 1994 the overlapped boxes type design was part of another crop formation. It was superimposed over an eye-like shape.

The All Seeing Eye

The Crop Circle Connection To The Creator And The Stars?

Churchward also included this symbol on page 67 of his book. He explained that the glyph represented "the eight Roads to Heaven" to the ancient Egyptians. The symbol is formed by a simple square that represents the earth, overlapped by another square that is aligned with the Cardinal points.

The overlapped boxes are also depicted on page 16 of "Sufi, Expressions of the Mystic Quest". It is part of several related symbols that represent "The Breath of the Compassionate." The symbols represent how the Creator creates the Universe in every moment, in a symbolic inward and outward breath.

FORM EXPANSION CONTRACTION THE BREATH OF THE COMPASSIONATE

You can see why the new crop formation is significant. It seems to connect with many symbols. There is some consistency to the meanings. The symbols are related to consciousness and creation.

The Teaching of the Spherical Breathing

With only 7 days before the flood comes, God instructs Noah to load the ark with seven pairs of clean animals and birds and a pair of unclean animals. After doing this Noah, his wife and his three sons and their wives, that is eight people are to enter the ark.

Noah means "rest" or "comfort," he was born to carry out the Tradition. In 2 Peter 2:5 "And spared not the world, but saved Noah, the eighth person a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly." Noah, had always walked with God, Genesis 6:9 "These are the generations of Noah; Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God." By way of Noah the Jehovah Elohim was giving the Tradition a second chance.

The waters of the flood destroyed all life except in Noah's "Ark." The Tradition here shows a closed vessel or container (tebah), referred to as an Ark laden with genetic material. Noah, his wife, three sons, their wives, a total of eight persons plus two of every living thing (specifically seven male and female of every clean beast and fowls). The eighth day, eighth person and eight souls saved, the number eight is very symbolic in relation to this age.

http://mazzaroth.com/ChapterThree/GenesisDayEightGemini.htm

This testimony from an unwilling witness shows again the identity between the ancient religions as to their secret doctrine. The Gayatri metre, for example, consists of thrice eight syllables, and is considered the most sacred of metres. It is the metre of Agni, the fire-god, and becomes at times the emblem of Brahma himself, the chief creator, and "fashioner of man" in his own image. Now Pythagoras says that "The number eight, or the Octad, is the first cube, that is to say, squared in all senses, as a die, proceeding from its base two, or even number; so is man four-square or perfect." Of course few, except the Pythagoreans and kabalists, can fully comprehend this idea; but the illustration will assist in pointing out the close kinship of the numerals with the Vedic Mantras. The chief problems of every theology lie concealed beneath this imagery of fire and the varying rhythm of its flames. The burning bush of the Bible, the Zoroastrian and other sacred fires, Plato's universal soul, and the Rosicrucian doctrines of both soul and body of man being evolved out of fire, the reasoning and immortal element which permeates all things, and which, according to Herakleitus, Hippocrates, and Parmenides, is God, have all the same meaning.

http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu2-09a.htm  Scroll down to page 22 for the spiritual symbolism of Noah and the Ark.

In 1992, the Dharmic Wheel Crop Glyph which had eight symbols on it.  The Dharmic Wheel formation is about human spiritual development. It is similar to Indo- Aryan symbols, called "The Great Turning" in prehistoric Europe. In the East it was called, "The Dharmic Wheel."

The structure of Ultimate Reality has the eight symbols of Being and Becoming on the points of the directions. The various glyphs had appeared as separate crop formations elsewhere in the Wessex area of England. In the center of the formation was a ring with a dot inside, which symbolizes Deity. It is further defined as the manifested state of God by being quartered. To the Celtics, this was the god, Bel, the Light behind the Light.

The symbols on the outer ring represent a certain energy, vibration or spiritual state, which eventually leads to apotheosis. Starting at the south glyph, and moving in a counter- clockwise direction, the glyphs have the following mythical names and meanings:

1. South - The antlers of Cernunnos - the role of the Animal Powers in the physical development of mankind.

2. Southeast - Modron - The Earth in the nurturing role of the archetypal Mother. This is the energy of consciousness.

3. East - Dagda - Procreative power, a sexual glyph, the mahadiva. This speaks of the spiritual conception.

4. Northeast - Sulis - The crescent moon which constitutes the womb of spirituality and the individuation of the personality.

5. North - Taranis - His wheel, with the three-fingered hand of blessing, which is also a claw, for this is the energy of conflict between the personality, soul and spirit. It represents the confrontation between the Soul and Personality.

6. Northwest - Lugh - Archetype of inspired knowledge. Note: This symbol did not appear as would be expected in a Dharmic Wheel, because the formation was positioned in such a way that a water through (for cattle) was located at that point on the ring. In the photographs of the formation the area appears dark because the water made the plants greener in that portion of the field. It could be that the pattern was positioned in this way for a purpose. My guess is that the "water," and perhaps the "cattle," are symbolically related to our "inspired (or uninspired) knowledge" at this time. Michael Green felt that Lugh had lost his symbol due to the water through, which destabilized the energies.

7. West - The ring and key of Mapon - The Divine Youth symbolizing the emergence of the spiritual being who unlocks the door to the Mysteries for others.

8. Southwest - The place of Donn - The triadic symbol of Spirit, Soul and Personality brought together finally as one Unity. The place of Donn is the archetype of death and transformation.

Avebury Manor, nr Avebury, Wiltshire. Reported 1st

September, 1999

Image by Peter Sorensen's Homepage

THE LAST CROP FORMATION OF THE MILLENNIUM

by Peter Sorensen

Ulrich flew over Avebury this morning, where he found an attractive, 150-foot formation, with 8-fold geometry, in the field bordering the NW quadrant of the henge. There is a "signature" not far away that is the Greek letter Pi - the essence of circle-ness, of course.

The 90-foot center circle has a bird's nest in the middle, which spirals out for a few feet, overlapping a radial lay, which in turn overlaps a clockwise lay that completes that circle.

Each of the eight medium size circles has a different lay, ranging from the conventional, to S-swirl, to a sort of bizarre, spiral snake.  These circles are each crowned with a small crescent, and (counting the ones inside the crescents) eight grapeshot adorn all of the eight "branches."

Report by Peter Sorensen.

FIELD REPORT

This formation is now regarded as the last event of the season. As I write this report, we have not received anymore news of further formations in the area, or across the country. Maybe in the coming weeks, we may receive earlier reports of formations already cut? The field in question here is tucked away from the main farming fields around the Stone Circle. Its shrouded in trees, which may have had a bearing on why it was left so late to be harvested, possibly due to the light? However, it has always been a fascinating field to be targeted by the Circlemakers, and is indeed the very first time to be hit.

On our arrival at the site, we were very luckily to arrive on the very same day; the new archeological discoveries were to be presented to the public at the long stones, about a mile away to our west. So we decided to carry out our investigation after we visited the Long Stones. (A description of these findings will be included in my end report on the 1999 season)

We entered the field from the entrance to Avebury Manor, and we immediately realized that the crop was due to be cut any minute, possibly the same time we were there? It was positioned directly in the center of the field, some 60 yards from the main road. Unfortunately it was a few days old now, and quite a number of visitors had already been in. However, there were still some very interesting details to be note on the floor construction of the surrounding circles. The central section of crop in the main center circle was very interesting. This splayed pattern, is possibly an indication of further techniques in creating circles, and also the wonderful snaking trail of crop on some of the outer circles? These features reminded me of the circles created on the famous BASKET formation at Bishop Cannings, which was criminally cut out by a small minded Farmer. The question, which I am raising here, is that we may have a further indication to how may see the 2000 crop circles. The three-dimensional feel to the floor construction is also shown in this formation, which I believe is the progression of 1999 season.

We will have to wait and see, but I feel that we shouldn’t be too disappointed that we didn’t get a chance to experienced the Basket, as I believe it will happen again in 2000!

It was quite fitting that the harvester started to enter the field, as I was just about to finish my photography. "I was right " I said, as I started to exit the field, it was a tribute to what has become one of the most memorable seasons of the nineties, and one of the greatest yet!

Report by Stuart Dike

Eight-Fold Pi formation

by Peter Sorensen

The eight-fold formation that appeared with a Pi "signature" next to it at Avebury on September 1st this year (1999), is the latest English crop formation of any season in my experience. And, to my knowledge it is the last one of the Millennium! Several of its nine major circles also had very peculiar lays, including raised, snake-like coils that could be clearly seen from the air.

The unique "snakes" were formed by narrow arcs of crop which was bent (crimped) over as high as a foot above the ground, and therefore a good eight inches above the more normally flattened crop that surrounded them. The term, snake, was coined because one of them (lower left on medium-close aerial shot) suggested a loosely coiled serpent, but on the ground they defied comparison to anything. They were curved, puffy bands which went down much higher than the surrounding lay. Virtually every large circle in the formation had them, but only a few were dramatic.

Equally remarkable was the lay of the central circle, which consisted of three distinct different flows. The very center was a small, ordinary clockwise swirl with a "bird's nest" in the middle. There had been a clump of standing stalks inside the nest, but these had been cleanly cut off a few inches from the ground - probably taken by someone sampling the crop. This central swirl overlapped a radial lay that went out about 10 feet before it, in turn, overlapped a clockwise, concentric lay. (The radial and concentric flows are distinct in the aerial shot, but the little central swirl is barely recognizable.) I have never heard of combined radial and concentric flattening - have you? Radial is rare enough!

The Greek Pi symbol was a controversial feature. Suggestive of a signature, some croppies have rejected the entire formation because of it, while others believe it was merely added by an early visitor. Still others are adamant that it was/is very important. At least two dowsers found positive results.

Charles and Frances Mallet reported that the tapering point at the right end of the Pi's curvy, horizontal stroke, had a very thin (2 or 3 inch-wide) line meandering off and out into the standing crop for well over a hundred feet. Amazingly, it was crimped down just a few inches below the ears of wheat - not at the bottom of the stalks! Unfortunately, no one took an aerial close-up of the Pi, although one of my pole shots shows the horizontal stroke tapering to fine point, and there appears to be a line going straight off from it a ways.

When Charley tried to photograph it, his camera failed. He was surprised, not only because his camera had never had a problem before, but because it was a very old, mechanical camera with no electronics in it. Assuming it had simply decided to break down after all these years, he was taken aback when he thought to test it with a shot of the formation from the roadside, and it worked perfectly. His curiosity peaked, he went back into the circle, and, classically, the camera again failed - only to behave when he returned to the road. [If anyone has a photo of the mysterious line or an aerial close-up of the Pi, please contact me or the Crop Circle Connector! I would also like to hear reports of other unusual features or experiences.]

The formation may not quite qualify as a Grand Finale, but it is a fascinating finale - for the year, AND the Millennium.

The Buddhist Eight Branches of Knowledge

Dharma Talk by Thich Nhat Hanh