VMs: some context for strange characters

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

could strange characters of VMS could be related to tamga's?
(the "clan signs" of nomads, largely used in Eurasia)
How old is this tamga-stuff?

http://slavic.freeservers.com/slovo/News31.html
a heraldry enthusiast at this place with good pics believes,
they are of Polish origin ... he should better mention Lithuania ... 
and there, they came from Golden Horde:
http://www.gaumina.lt/totoriai/english/tradicijos_info3.html

often it's believed, this is the original home of tamgas.
But they go deeper back in time:
http://mysite.freeserve.com/phidition/Tamga.html
http://www.museum.com.ua/en/istor/sev-vost/bospor/bospor.htm
http://www.museum.com.ua/en/istor/sev-vost/bospor/21.htm
http://www.museum.com.ua/en/istor/sev-vost/bospor/20.htm


since we mentioned the Golden Horde,
some mongolian calligraphic stuff:
http://www.owc.org.mn/team27/derv/index.html
http://www.asuult.net/nemesis/holboo/images/mongol-bichig.jpg
http://www.solarman.bird.to/contortion/mongol/Images/p00001t00001.jpg
http://laurencio.webz.cz/mongolxel/toli/qaguchin/lccn01.htm
(hm, note that a lot of stuff at the words end is written like "9")




just a gallows place:
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/dbcourses/manuscripts/large/mss_vienna2554_07a_012403.jpg
and more just nice stuff, if you like these:
http://www.mcah.columbia.edu/dbcourses/manuscripts/large/

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