There is another significant positional relationship drawn into the White Aries illustration. It is the connection between the upper blue-and-white striped patterned tub and the inner example of a patterned box filling in part of a circular band of written text. This contiguous connection is unique.
Having markers in circular bands of text occurs in various illustrations and is not unusual. In fact there several standard types of text markers. But the markers found in the VMs Zodiac are complex and unique. Two in White Aries and one in Cancer. One in three has a tub connection. But why?
Where does it say that the potential keys to the VMs need to be presented in the text as clear as day? So they are disguised a bit. But if they are disguised, they are even more susceptible to the effects and the arguments of subjective interpretation. Such identifications are potentially flawed and false and, therefore, to be rejected. So I've been told.
This is why there are positional confirmations. Each of these is an objective statement, a positional confirmation of fact and a demonstration of technique in the creation of the Zodiac illustrations. Everything that is within the pairing paradigm. How many pairs are needed to demonstrate their intentional creation?
Placement and position offer the VMs artist a simple way to communicate. To say: That which is physically connected is ideologically connected. But, of course, if the images have not been correctly identified, then it makes no sense. And the same with positionally connected. Because intention is the source of this creation and it explains how the parts are put into position.
While it may seem to some that the particular, historical choice made by the author is obscure and therefore a poor one, quite a different perspective might obtain from a time approximating the parchment dates. The historical tradition of the cardinals' red galero is not something insignificant, even more important in the past - given that the majority of literate persons, at the time of the parchment dates, were church or cleric educated, with many being members of the church hierarchy. And, ostensibly, this is also a time before all popes were given armorial insignia. Given the pairing and the plainness of the heraldic pattern, the choice is perfect, but position and placement carry the day because they are objective.
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Having markers in circular bands of text occurs in various illustrations and is not unusual. In fact there several standard types of text markers. But the markers found in the VMs Zodiac are complex and unique. Two in White Aries and one in Cancer. One in three has a tub connection. But why?
Where does it say that the potential keys to the VMs need to be presented in the text as clear as day? So they are disguised a bit. But if they are disguised, they are even more susceptible to the effects and the arguments of subjective interpretation. Such identifications are potentially flawed and false and, therefore, to be rejected. So I've been told.
This is why there are positional confirmations. Each of these is an objective statement, a positional confirmation of fact and a demonstration of technique in the creation of the Zodiac illustrations. Everything that is within the pairing paradigm. How many pairs are needed to demonstrate their intentional creation?
Placement and position offer the VMs artist a simple way to communicate. To say: That which is physically connected is ideologically connected. But, of course, if the images have not been correctly identified, then it makes no sense. And the same with positionally connected. Because intention is the source of this creation and it explains how the parts are put into position.
While it may seem to some that the particular, historical choice made by the author is obscure and therefore a poor one, quite a different perspective might obtain from a time approximating the parchment dates. The historical tradition of the cardinals' red galero is not something insignificant, even more important in the past - given that the majority of literate persons, at the time of the parchment dates, were church or cleric educated, with many being members of the church hierarchy. And, ostensibly, this is also a time before all popes were given armorial insignia. Given the pairing and the plainness of the heraldic pattern, the choice is perfect, but position and placement carry the day because they are objective.
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