17-03-2018, 11:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-03-2018, 11:40 PM by Morten St. George.)
JKP wrote:
Sigh. It appears you didn't look at my links or you would never have posted that statement.
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Alas. I did look at your drawings:
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Where do you see a four-legged critter with elevated tail that curves around?
![[Image: img-voynich-scorpio.jpg]](http://mortenstgeorge.info/img-voynich-scorpio.jpg)
The previously posted 'dragon' of ca. 1250 comes closest and that falls within my time, not yours.
I think it was the Cathar astronomers who decided to depart from tradition on this one, basing the head of their scorpion on Antares, the brightest star of Scorpio and one of the brightest in the night sky, and then curved the tail around Shaula at the other end.
Justification for doing that can perhaps be found in their alleged sacred text allegedly extracted from the VMS recipes:
Kappa Thita Lambda mors …
Years ago, in an Old French to French dictionary, I noticed that one of the definitions of mors referred to the bite of a scorpion. Not until hundreds of years later would they begin using Greek letters to name stars but it was always easy enough to envision that those names referred to stars.
Meanwhile, another passage with Greek words refers to fish, which could explain why we also see stars on the VMS Pisces and nowhere else in their zodiac.
Well, I have given you my explanation of the VMS divergence from tradition on Scorpio. What is your explanation?
Sigh. It appears you didn't look at my links or you would never have posted that statement.
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Alas. I did look at your drawings:
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Where do you see a four-legged critter with elevated tail that curves around?
The previously posted 'dragon' of ca. 1250 comes closest and that falls within my time, not yours.
I think it was the Cathar astronomers who decided to depart from tradition on this one, basing the head of their scorpion on Antares, the brightest star of Scorpio and one of the brightest in the night sky, and then curved the tail around Shaula at the other end.
Justification for doing that can perhaps be found in their alleged sacred text allegedly extracted from the VMS recipes:
Kappa Thita Lambda mors …
Years ago, in an Old French to French dictionary, I noticed that one of the definitions of mors referred to the bite of a scorpion. Not until hundreds of years later would they begin using Greek letters to name stars but it was always easy enough to envision that those names referred to stars.
Meanwhile, another passage with Greek words refers to fish, which could explain why we also see stars on the VMS Pisces and nowhere else in their zodiac.
Well, I have given you my explanation of the VMS divergence from tradition on Scorpio. What is your explanation?