different between cerealogy vs cereology

English

cereal +? -logy

cerealogy (uncountable)

Alternative form of cereology
- 2002, "Cereal offenders who won't go away", Christian Science Monitor, Aug 12, 2002
  Despite film showing the two men creating highly complex crop circles, the momentum behind cerealogy was too strong to be stopped by any admission of English eccentricity.
- 2005, Steve Dewey, John Ries, In Alien Heat: The Warminster Mystery Revisited, page 57
  Patrick Moore, in Can You Speak Venusian, noted that — shades of cerealogy — the crops over a wide area had been flattened.

Ceres (“Roman goddess of agriculture”) +? -ology.

cereology (uncountable)

The investigation, or practice, of creating crop circles.
- 1991, “Editorial notes”, in The Cereologist: The Journal for Crop Circles Studies, Shepton Mallet, Somerset: The Cereologist, OCLC 877349523, page 5; quoted in Gordon Stein, “Crop Circles”, in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996, ISBN 978-1-57392-021-6, page 185, column 1:
  The result of all this has been to throw the world of cereology into a state of total confusion. All its previous certainties have been demolished.

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