RE: VMs: Calendar, sun and moon

["DANA SCOTT" <dscott520@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Stefan,

Yes, all ideas are welcome.  Imaginative thinking is important.  While it 
may be relatively straight forward to consider hot/cold, humid/dry, 
dark/light, etc, we need to continue to the next step.  What might the 
intent have been for the author of the VMs to have included these specific 
plant and astrological drawings.  Are they frozen in time or do they convey 
motion in time.  It appears to me that there is implied motion and movement 
through time in the VMs, with perhaps a continuous cycle of events.  So 
maybe we do not need to know the meaning of a drawing in its entirety but 
may begin with just a piece of the pie.



Regards,
Dana Scott




> From: Stefan Urbanek <stefan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: VMs: Calendar, sun and moon
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 15:41:41 +0200
>
> 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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