Crop Circle Chungnam Boryoung City, South Korea

The analemma or figure-8 shape of our Moon as shown in South Korean crops

A new crop picture which appeared in South Korea on June 12, 2008 seems to be a close conceptual copy of the "four month lunar calendar" which appeared at East Field near Avebury on July 7, 2007 (see www.lucypringle.co.uk/photos/2007/uk2007ay.shtml#pic4
or www.cropcircle.tv/archives/2007/eastfield2/eastfield2007aa.html).

Now in 2008 we are seeing two lunar phase cycles rather than four, as indicated by two long series of small white balls which have been drawn as large for a full Moon or else small for a new Moon:

Our Moon will be "full" on June 19, 2008 then again on July 18, 2008. Several parts of those two lunar cycles actually overlap: from June 25 to 27 (upper left) before a new Moon on July 3, then again from July 10 to 12 after a new Moon on July 3 (lower right).

The two figure-8 shapes which have been drawn there are known astronomically as "analemmas" (see www.analemma.com
or www.pikespeakphoto.com/analemma.html
or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analemma). Each figure-8 shape represents the location in our sky of some nearby astronomical object (say Sun or Moon), when viewed at the same time each day over the course of an entire year.

That is also why a broad outer circle which represents Earth's annual orbit about the Sun was drawn there: in order to emphasize "one full solar year" of four seasons (light for six months of summer, then dark for six months of winter).

The analemma shape of our Sun is relatively easy to photograph:

By contrast, the analemma shape of our Moon is relatively hard to photograph (see http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050713.html), because any new Moon (upper left) appears faint versus a full Moon (lower right):

That is also how we know that those mysterious crop artists were telling us about the "Moon" on June 12 in South Korea, and not about the "Sun", because the round white balls as shown there vary greatly in size from small to large, in direct proportion to the Moon's intensity throughout any 29.5-day phase cycle (see www.cropcircle.tv/archives/1996/The%20Stonehenge%20code.html
or www.cropcircle.tv/archives/1996/chis96a.html#Dual).

Every effort should be made to determine whether the new Korean crop picture is real or else human-made, by careful inspection of the flattened plants there. A lot of hard science for a fake!

Red Collie

The flag of South Korea, or Taegukgi (Although revised official Romanization is Taegeukgi, the word Taegukgi has been used in English-speaking countries historically) has three parts: a white background; a red and blue taegeuk in the center; and four black trigrams, one in each corner of the flag. The flag was designed by Bak Yeong-hyo, the Korean ambassador to Japan. King Gojong proclaimed the Taegeukgi to be the official flag of Korea on 6 March 1883.

The four trigrams originates in the Chinese book I Ching, representing the four Chinese philosophical ideas about the universe: harmony, symmetry, balance, circulation. The general design of the flag also derives from traditional use of the tricolour symbol (red, blue and yellow) by Koreans starting from the early era of Korean history. The white background symbolizes "cleanliness of the people." The taegeuk represents the origin of all things in the universe; holding the two principles of "Eum", the negative aspect rendered in blue, and "Yang", the positive aspect rendered in red, in perfect balance. Together, they represent a continuous movement within infinity, the two merging as one. The four trigrams are:

* ||| Force (☰; geon (건; 乾) in Korean) = heaven (天), spring (春), east (東), virtue (仁);
* ¦¦¦ Field (☷; gon (곤; 坤)) = earth (地), summer (夏), west (西), justice (義);
* |¦| Radiance (☲; ri (리; 離)) = sun (日), autumn (秋), south (南), courtesy (禮);
* ¦|¦ Gorge (☵; gam (감; 坎)) = moon (月), winter (冬), north (北), knowledge or wisdom (智).

Traditionally, the four trigrams are related to the Five Elements of fire, water, earth, wood, and metal. An analogy could also be drawn with the four western classical elements.

Design used in the past, but now abandoned.
The earliest surviving depiction of the flag was printed in a U.S. Navy book Flags of Maritime Nations in July 1882.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Korea

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This mark is very commonly used by the legal profession in legal texts and legal codes to set out a section of the law, or a legal regulation:

This is self-evidently very, very similar to what we see in the Korean crop glyph. It may be a way of saying that this formation, or maybe others too, have to do with laying down the law -- whether natural law, cosmic law, galactic federation law, spiritual law, who knows?

Maybe the cosmic sheriffs are delivering a galactic legal summons or warrant to us, or reciting the law prior to imposing a legal sanction. Or something like that.

But for me, the symbolism is clear. Of course, there is other information here too.

Richard Sauder

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