VMs: Stars or No Stars

[Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Dana

Here's another question:  perhaps this has been
discussed already, but I have not found it in the
archives yet.

Some of the "Zodiac" drawings have stars in them; some
have none.  Out of ten possible "signs", 3 "signs"
contain stars within the illustration.  Has anyone
proposed an explanation of this?

The illustrations with stars are:

Pisces, two stars
Virgo, one star
Scorpio, one star

Please let me know if I've missed any.

What has the thinking of the list been on this point?

Warmly,

Pam



--- Pamela Richards <spirlhelix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi, Dana
> 
> For the record, I agree with you that the f73r
> illustration resembles a mammal much more than an
> arachnid or a six-legged reptile.
> 
> When the author is using the illustrations of a
> hired
> artist, I believe some latitude for "bad scorpions"
> can be extended.  Perhaps the artist did not have
> references on hand which the astrologer normally
> would.  If the VMs author practices Western
> astrology,
> it seems reasonable to me that he would have been
> exposed to more than one conventional illustration
> of
> a scorpion by the time he wrote this document.  From
> my point of view, I can't imagine why he would
> choose
> to wander away and set up to illustrate and inscribe
> his document far from his source documents on
> astrology.
> 
> That throws us back to provenance: the question of
> whether the document is Western, or other.  So many
> of
> the images have a Western orientation: the fashions,
> the buildings, the hairstyles, etc.  I opt for a
> Western author, one who is very interested in
> astrology (note the consistent theme of stars), and
> one who for whatever reason, intentionally proposed
> a
> very peculiar Zodiac, or its percieved equivalent.
> 
> But, that's just one hypothesis among many.
> 
> Warmly,
> 
> Pam
> 
> 
> 
> --- Dana Scott <dscott520@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I am beginning to wonder if what we are seeing in
> > f73r might be the author's 
> > rendition of Lupus, for unknown personal
> > astrological reasons?
> > 
> >
>
http://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/05/08/0001190093/constell/lup_600.jpg
> > 
> > http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/lup/lupp.html
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Dana Scott 
> >
>
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