QUOTE(weatherwitch @ Dec 22 2004, 03:03 PM)
QUOTE(Celtic King @ Dec 22 2004, 10:34 AM)
WW:Crop circles DO have a very strong connection to Paganism, in my opinion, more so than any other 'religion' we know of "out there".
Why? Because they're nature based? I've never come across crop circles connected to Paganism before. And the symbols depicted so beautifully are of dodgy origin to be honest. The celtic styles are more Saxon in design, and the Celtic symbol for Alder? If you are refering to the Celtic Tree calendar symbol then you should be aware that whilst it's a nice system it was invented by Robert Graves only a few decades ago.
The weather cannot be ruled out exclusively, not wind vortexs since so many people have seen them create crop circles.
The art of crop circle formation is a true form, and as you say has grown more and complex over the last few decades, funny that as publicity has improved

Something that I find strange is that our ancestors have not recorded any, to the Romans who blamed much on Druids, the Anglo -Saxons time when the first witchcraft cases were fully recorded, to the hysteria of medieval witch hunts, surely crop circles of such complexity as we see today would have caused a panic then? There are recorded incidents from those times of small ones being created by vortex, but no-one thought anything of it, it was a natural phenomenon.
The more complex and supposedly pagan the circle the more sceptical I get I'm afraid. I see much strange nature around me here, but can't believe that any agent other than humans create the more complex ones, sorry

There is indeed STRANGE nature around us. I can only recommend you look into this phenomenon in more detail. Read books by leading researchers like Andy Thomas, for example. Study the websites for the reports, go and see a crop circle for yourself. I believe the earliest 'recorded' crop formation was documented in about 1760 or something.... I dont remember now. People are reporting seeing strange balls of light in the sky, UFOs.... being abducted by aliens... are these people mad? Or are we all suffering from a 'collective' global psychosis??
The world is far stranger place than we think it is, believe me.

Ask yourself a serious question, did the 'weather' (wind vortices) make this formation at Silbury Hill, this year?
http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/2004/uk2004cf.jpgOr how about this one?
http://home.clara.net/lucypringle/photos/2004/uk2004cp.jpgThere was no REAL eveidence to suggest either of these formations were man-made. NONE. Like most formations every year, just like these... no-one hears, no-one sees nothing. Many formations appear on the same fields each year, but still no-one sees anything, even when they stay out all night 'field watching'.....
Cheers.