The Toot Balden crop circle, reported July 7, 2007 conveys to us another fascinating message in such a succinct, yet multi-faceted way. My main area of knowledge is symbolism and traditional mythology, so hopefully it will complement the mathematical and scientific information that has been coming in regarding the crop circles this year.Hexagram is contained by, and to some extent, defines the hexagon. Symbolically, the hexagram stands for the yin/yang, the union of male and female, and the sacred marriage. It represents primordial energy and the Source of all Creation, the Great Androgyne. In Jungian terms, it represents the union of opposites, i.e.of the personal, temporal world of the ego with the non-personal timeless world of the non-ego. Ultimately, this union is the fulfilment and goal of all religions. (Penguin Dictionary of Symbols) At Uxmal, Yucatan, it is a symbol of the sun shedding its rays on earth the fertilization of earth. The hexagon itself symbolizes a dying, or surrender to a greater force in preparation for new life, something like what happens to bees over the winter in the hexagonal cells of the honeycomb in order to re-emerge in springtime.
The cube, which in this formation is represented by the interior hexagon with the y lines to indicate the 3D cube, is a symbol of earth and its four corners corresponding to the sunrise, sunset, midday, midnight and to the solstices and the equinoxes. It also brings forth the concept of solidification, stability, (therefore truth and the base for the throne of the goddess, e.g. Cybele, Rhea). In Chinese tradition it is representative of the earth deity. In Mayan tradition, the Tree of Life grows from the Centre of a Cube. It symbolizes the material universe and the New Jerusalem.
