(02-02-2016, 08:24 AM)crezac wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
I think Stephen Bax is on the right track in trying to find meanings for labels as a starting point. I don't think there is compelling evidence he has found any yet, but I do agree he's looking in the right place. I think you're probably going to have to do the same too before asking if there is narrative structure in VMS.
It's possible the labels aren't labels. They might be a stream of text broken up. They might be fragments. They might be heavily abbreviated.
If you look at very old apothecary jars from eastern Europe, for example, they were so heavily abbreviated that only someone who already had an intimate knowledge of the contents (and could see and sniff them) could readily read them.
And, as I mentioned in another post, a label isn't necessarily the name of the item, it may be what it's for, the color, what it comes from, what it signifies, or a term to categorize it.
Take Bax's label for Taurus, for example. The assumption is that the seven stars are Pleiades.
It's certainly possible, Pleiades has been known as the Seven Sisters for a very long time and is readily identifiable in the sky. But it's also possible that the symbol in the center of the wheel is the sun or the earth, and the line running from it to the seven "stars" means they are connected and the seven stars represent Venus, Mercury, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (the standard celestial line-up at the time) and that the seventh one, connected to the center, could be either the sun or the earth. There are also other constellations that consist of seven major stars.
So however those "labels" are read, because they are so short, several alternative interpretations are possible for almost any of them and not knowing which language (if any) underlies the glyphs multiplies the possibilities.