Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

So you just used the argument that since it is uncommon to use sun and moon faces until 1493 that it must be based on one from 1200. 

I think I was trying to suggest that all the depictions of the sun and moon (both together) both with human faces, including those of the VMS, may ultimately proceed from Arabic sources.

Such depictions of the sun and moon were apparently known during the Late Middle Ages if for no other reason than their appearance in De sphaera mundi (1230 CE), of which Wikipedia writes:

"Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi was the most successful of several competing thirteenth-century textbooks on this topic. It was used in universities for hundreds of years and the manuscript copied many times before the invention of the printing press; hundreds of manuscript copies have survived."

My point is only that devout monks of northern Italy, between 1404 and 1438, were unlikely to have made drawings of Helios because of its connection to paganism. Instead, we see depictions of Helios mostly circa 1200 (the epoch of the Cathar rebellion) and after 1497 (the Renaissance).

My interest in this topic is more extensive due to the following vignette (and others) from publications of the VMS prophecies:



This particular drawing also points us to a book called Novus Atlas (1633, 1648) in which the VMS is cryptically linked to Mexico and to Peru where there was pre-Colombian worship of Helios (now called Inti) who is seen here above the king's left shoulder:



I have found accurate descriptions of a couple of VMS prophecies in Spanish chronicles concerning Viracocha Inca (who reigned from 1410 to 1438), leading to suspicions that the VMS itself (that is, its drawings of Helios) was the inspiration for Inca depictions of Inti.