Re: Castle Complexes (WAS: VMs: Hello to all...)

[KenW <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:

> > Using the sun images in far corners of the lower right and upper left 
> > as indications of east and west respectively, I oriented the top 
> > right rosette to the north.  The corners then seem to define 
> > locations or styles of structures in each of the four cardinal 
> > directions.  The top right (northern) contains the castle structures 
> > like those of Europe.
> > The bottom right (eastern) rosette could be interpreted as a Persian 
> > or Indus style structure.  The center rosette would be Jerusalem.  
> > This leaves the lower left (southern - Africa?) and upper left 
> > (eastern - England perhaps?) rosettes.
>
>
> Anyway... what does your theory tell you about all the detail inside 
> that page? I'd advise printing the sidfile out across at least six 
> sheets of A4 and going over it by hand, nice and slow - there's a lot 
> to take in there, really there is. :-o
I've done exactly that - the poster-sized layout that is.   As for what 
my suggestion tells us, that is up to interpretation - thus the post.  I 
have only begun to see where this leads me.  I have a few observations 
based on this framework.  I'm not suggesting these ideas are conclusive, 
just thoughts [Note: all direction mentioned are in reference to 
cardinal directions according to the top right rosette being North]

-- Each cardinal direction also has a distinguishable element outside 
its rosette at the far corners of the folio.  The east and west are 
symbolized by the sun images - rising/setting.  In the north, there is 
what appears to be a TO map.  Could this represent the North as a center 
of knowledge or is it a straight forward reference to the Earth?  The 
South has a banded circle with a triangle of circles connected by two 
lines.  This symbol is similar to a medieval alchemical symbol.  The 
symbol in the circle was commonly used to represent Sol, the sun.  Hmm?  
Also, following Hermeticism and the idea of Originalism (the older the 
source of knowledge, more pure or closer to the divine it is) Egypt was 
the home of Hermes Trismegistus - thus the source of divine knowledge.  
Is the "Sol" symbol a reference to this knowledge?  Marsilio Ficino 
introduced the Corpus Hermetica into Europe in the 15th century with his 
Latin translation, so the date is about right for the VMS.

-- The intermediary rosettes (NW, NE, SW and SE) do not specifically 
contain architectural elements and only these four connect to the 
center.  The odd one out is the NE which does not have the spiked and 
starry rosettes.  It seems more aquatic in nature.  What this means, I 
do not know.  But I have noticed that the "intermediary" rosettes have 
increasing numbers of divisions.  Moving clockwise starting from the NE 
there are 2,7,9 and 13 spikes respectively.  Once again, I'm unsure of 
the meaning of this, but it seems obvious that there is an intent versus 
random decoration.  Could it be a clock/time related reference?

-- Putting aside the NE oddity for now, there is an interesting, 
unpatterned detail in each of the "intermediary" rosettes.  The NW and 
SW rosettes have what could be best described as clock hand (just a 
description - not my assumption of intention).  The NW one points toward 
the center rosette.  The SW one points away from the center.  The SE 
rosette is more subtle.  There is a clear wavy line emanating from the 
center of its rosette roughly pointing toward the South rosette.

I'll throw this much into the din/den and await rebuttal...

Enjoy,
Ken W

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