VMs: Re: Stars vs. flowers, what does line/stem mean?

[Wayne Durden <wdurden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a quick question since the stars have come up.  I have personally 
wondered whether some of the things generally referred to are stars 
versus flowers.  Some certainly appear to be stars to me and are in an 
astronomical context, but on many occasions including the last section, 
many of these have a stem like line.  The line doesn't seem to 
designate motion like a shooting star, but looks like a stem sometimes 
where a nymph or creature is connected to the star/flower.  Sometimes 
rather than a single stem line, there are a pair of strokes, and the 
pair suggested a dimensionality that bothered me if the line was merely 
a stroke to show some ideological connection of the subject to the 
heavens.   In the recipe section some have stems/lines which simply 
terminate.  The coloring of some of the star/flower center/faces also 
has posed a tinge of doubt to me whether they sometimes flowers.  I did 
a quick search using google images at one point to see if I could find 
similar images without success but of course google only can index 
based on its rules for graphic names in pages or context as it can 
surmise.

Is there a generally accepted symbology any one might point me to that 
accounts for the line or stem in a star context?  For instance an 
example where there is a similar line which has been accepted as 
showing the subject is connected to the heavens for instance, or 
anything that would help explain how it could be used.   If anyone has 
looked into this or has other historical examples, it would help me 
resolve a question that has been nagging at me and would let me cross 
one more item off the to do list.

Thanks,

Wayne

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