Mayan Crop Circle

[tinhuvielartanis]

DUDE. Really... DUDE! Make with the clickie.



Thanks to anita1967 for twigging me on to this. If any of you have any Alpaca Lips-themed news stories, feel free to email me or post them in comments here!

Comments

[sapphirescarlet.livejournal.com]

I bet you got this story in your email ten times! You should TOTALLY go and see this, you know. We need a picture of you standing in it, or next to it or something.

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I know a fair bit about ancient Maya art and archaeology, and I've never seen that design before. It looks more Aztec/Toltec to me if anything... FWIW.

There are bar-and-dot numbers on it. Since there are no zero symbols being used as placeholders, it's a little hard to tell how they should be interpreted. Also, the two dots on top of each other in the middle two is a little odd, too... the Maya didn't do that. The angle of the photo doesn't help, either...

One possible interpretation:

6 11 5 11 126 325 2925 2925 325 125 125 11 6

If you use the calendar variant mentioned in the article, change 2925 to 2645.


It's almost but not quite symmetrical.

An actual Maya Long Count calendar date can be expressed in numbers alone, but it wouldn't look like that.

Examples (using the GMT conversion factor)-

07/13/2009: 12 19 16 9 3
12/20/2012: 12 19 19 17 19
12/21/2012: 13 0 0 0 0

It's a mystery. Sure is pretty, though...