Morten St George Theory

[Morten St. George]

Morten, those hats are berets.

It's been a popular style from the medieval period to the present day. There's nothing unusual about them. In the Middle Ages they were sometimes a bit poofier that modern ones (especially if the wearer was wealthy) but even then, many were the same as they are now.

I really wish you would RESEARCH things before making up your mind about how important they are. Look up "beret" on Google images.

Berets were especially popular in France and eastern Germany, but they are found many places.

I have numerous examples, but I don't have time to post them all, here is one from a German manuscript, but you'll find them in other countries, as well:

I guess you are trying to say that there is nothing helpful with the depicted clothing because, unlike our modern epoch, the clothing styles of the Middle Ages changed little across time. Fair enough.

The beret bumps shown on the Aries page (I now count four of them) look more exaggerated than the one you depict and I was thinking they might represent layman clergy or something like that. For example, do a Google image search on "Jewish medieval hats" to see another type of hat protrusion. But if, as you say, the beret bumps were worn by everybody across centuries, there would be nothing there that we could count on.

I'm pretty sure that the stars (attached to the hand) indicate dead people (similar to our "gone to heaven" concept) so the depicted clothing might date all the way back to the 12th century. For the dead people depicted under Aries, do you think they were born in the month April or did they die in the month of April? Astrology normally relates to the date of birth but I can envision escape from reincarnation (occurring on the death of a "perfect" person) as a type of rebirth.