18-06-2017, 07:07 PM
So, here are some things that relate to the number 'five' or occur in fives. Perhaps there are other examples.
As I have already mentioned, it is position 5, in the seventeen symbol sequence, where there is a certain glyph with three relevant, medieval interpretations.
Two things about VMs Cancer:
1) It has an example of "Stolfi's marker". This is the short, patterned space in the circular band of text. Middle ring, nine o'clock, as I recall. And there are only two other such examples in the VMs Zodiac - both on White Aries.
2) The image of the central medallion is a pair. And as a pair, it is the *fifth* house in a series where the central medallion is either paired internally or duplicated externally to make a pair. Five pairings in sequence, and more within this set if other factors are considered. And more pairings besides, on the same Zodiac pages.
Back with the 17 symbol sequence, two of the potential interpretations of Symbol 5 were numerical and one was from the Greek alphabet. But the Greek symbols are also potentially numerals. The same symbols occur in sequence with an interesting exception. Three additional symbols were added as numerals. The first of these is the insertion of the old letter 'digamma' as the number '6'. The Greek alphabetic sequence and numerical sequence only match for the first *five* symbols.
So there is nothing here that can't be plainly seen or easily known. Does it potentially all tie together? That is the question. Certainly this sort of suggestive thinking was common in the medieval period. And whether the author was such a person or not, s/he still may have known and used such method.
As I have already mentioned, it is position 5, in the seventeen symbol sequence, where there is a certain glyph with three relevant, medieval interpretations.
In position six is a glyph that has been interpreted as a quincunx. This is a symbol found in astrology, used to designate the house that is *fifth* from the primary house - the natal house in astrology, but in the traditional Zodiac, the fifth house is Leo. However, in the VMs, because the VMs has Pisces first, the fifth house is Cancer. Let's look at Cancer.
Two things about VMs Cancer:
1) It has an example of "Stolfi's marker". This is the short, patterned space in the circular band of text. Middle ring, nine o'clock, as I recall. And there are only two other such examples in the VMs Zodiac - both on White Aries.
2) The image of the central medallion is a pair. And as a pair, it is the *fifth* house in a series where the central medallion is either paired internally or duplicated externally to make a pair. Five pairings in sequence, and more within this set if other factors are considered. And more pairings besides, on the same Zodiac pages.
Back with the 17 symbol sequence, two of the potential interpretations of Symbol 5 were numerical and one was from the Greek alphabet. But the Greek symbols are also potentially numerals. The same symbols occur in sequence with an interesting exception. Three additional symbols were added as numerals. The first of these is the insertion of the old letter 'digamma' as the number '6'. The Greek alphabetic sequence and numerical sequence only match for the first *five* symbols.
So there is nothing here that can't be plainly seen or easily known. Does it potentially all tie together? That is the question. Certainly this sort of suggestive thinking was common in the medieval period. And whether the author was such a person or not, s/he still may have known and used such method.