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This astrology manuscript of the National Library of the Spain is contemporary of the VMS. You can see in it two relevant things. First, the stars of constellations are depicted like little circles without points, and second, there are symbols for the planets but there are no Zodiac symbols yet.
Therefore, you can't rule out the possibility that the glyph (o) of the VMS stands for a degree of the sphere or simply a star. This would explain why (o) is the most frequent glyph of the VMS.
And since there were no symbols yet for Zodiac constellations, they used numbers for designate them, numbers based in the hours of light of each sign. We see in some volvelles the numbers 8 and 4 for the Zodiac signs of solstices. These numbers can see the same we see in the VMS.
This astrology manuscript of the National Library of the Spain is contemporary of the VMS. You can see in it two relevant things. First, the stars of constellations are depicted like little circles without points, and second, there are symbols for the planets but there are no Zodiac symbols yet.
Therefore, you can't rule out the possibility that the glyph (o) of the VMS stands for a degree of the sphere or simply a star. This would explain why (o) is the most frequent glyph of the VMS.
And since there were no symbols yet for Zodiac constellations, they used numbers for designate them, numbers based in the hours of light of each sign. We see in some volvelles the numbers 8 and 4 for the Zodiac signs of solstices. These numbers can see the same we see in the VMS.