RE: VMs: Calendar, sun and moon

[fion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Trying to describe the flow of time in a still image is very difficult.
Nonetheless is very intriguing, anyone could post some  examples ?

Thank you guys for your replays. We may never reach the target but 
I surely learnt many things on the way to. :)
 

Regards,
Florin
  
> On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, DANA SCOTT wrote:

> 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>
> >Reply-To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >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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