Re: VMs: Re: What do you think about Eight?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 04:53 26/08/2004 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> since the VMs includes bits and pieces from several
> scientific disciplines, it might well be that the
> diagram is not astronomical or astrological at all,
> but rather meteorological. It would make perfect
> sense to have an eight-fold division for the
> eight major directions from which the winds might
> come. The figure is of course rather unusual in
> that sense, but so is the whole MS :-)

So the "starfish" page would be converting between zodiac signs (or lunar 
months) and wind-rose directions? Hmmm... doesn't really work for me, 
sorry. :-/

> I don't know anything about treguenda, or how
> old that tradition is, but there is one aspect
> I like about that explanation: the VMs figure shows
> four larger sprials and four smaller ones,
> alternating. Also the writing direction
> alternates.

It doesn't seem to alternate on f68v3 (the "spiral galaxy" page), which 
definitely has four long arms interspersed with four short arms: but 
perhaps we're talking about different pages?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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