Re: VMs: Calendar, sun and moon

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The more I think about it the more I'm convinced that (most of) images are 
products of imagination. Contrary to what is believed by some psychologsts 
the imagination borrows quite heavily from reality. One of the most known 
functions of imagination is (re)combination. Different parts gathered 
from different things and glued together, adding as a flavor one-two abstract 
parts and voila a new thing is created. This may explain why parts of the 
images are been recognised and associated with known things: the root look 
like this, the leaf looks like that and s.o. Trying to interpret this kind 
of things will most likely result in a variety of theory.

Stefan, thanks for sharing your point of view with us.

There was a discussion a while ago ,comparing the vms  with an agro-almanac.
I don't know of any change in a plant state during night as opposed with
daylight. This is quite interesting, I don't know if it was studied before.
There seem to be some nocturnal influence over the living things. 
The only thing I heared is that ther are  plants which need to be 
collected in some specific time of year for specific results, this circulates 
in my folklore.

Regards,
Florin

> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was looking at pages 67/68 with circles, stars, suns and moons. It is
> considered to be astro-section. Has anyone considered this potential
> explanation:
> 
> Let us assume for a short time that the book is more botanical/pharmaceutical
> and describes some plants, their anatomy, their properties. Then astro pages
> (not only 67/68) can describe various calendars where one can find something
> like:
> - state of a plant in given month
> - properties of plants in given month
> - "gardening": good for collection, good for reproduction, should be treated
> specially
> - ...
> 
> And what about sun and moon? Sun can mean "hot, heat, heating" and moon can
> mean: "cold, cooling, freezing,...". We currently use sun or flame symbol and
> snow flage symbol. Let us consider that "moon shines in the night and in the
> night it is cold" (it is very simplified).
> 
> Now, the images with symbols of cold/hot can say:
> - what plants do like cold/hot
> - what properties you get from a plant when you treat it in hot/cold conditions
> - what have you do with a plant to get another product (heat it, burn it, cool
> it, freeze it, ...)
> - ...
> 
> f67v2 can describe, for example, a process of cooling and heating of certain
> substance.... Or it can be something totaly different...
> 
> 
> I wanted to give you another point of view on the issue. I think, that not all
> symbols represent some too abstract entities, they can represent common objects
> or properties...
> 
> Just for thinking...
> 
> Stefan

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