05-04-2020, 08:31 PM
In response to the question by DONJCH:
"So you are saying that the VM could be a jest, a stunt, a piece of medieval performance art?"
I agree with what Koen and JKP have posted. In my opinion, I'm not saying that I believe the whole VMs is a stunt, etc., but there is some chance that it could be a possibility, just as other potential scenarios might have served as motivation. Currently, IMO, we don't have enough information to know the reasons for VMs creation. We need to have some idea of the thinking behind VMs creation, before we can attempt to assign motivation.
The papelonny pun is an example of something similar to heraldic canting or interpreting a rebus. Functionally the method of interpretation starts with an image (the picture of an eye), the image must be correctly named in the relevant language (eye), and the sound of the word is then punned to an alternate interpretation (I). So the picture sequence: eye + heart + fish (a pike) could be read as "I love Lucy". Which only works when the relevant medieval terminology for the fish is known.
And the actual 'humor', such as it is, is more witty, rather than something evoking laughter. It is like a joke, however, in that you either 'get it', or you don't get it. And for VMs investigation there has been a lot of the latter.
So, the first part of understanding the papelonny pun, is knowing, recognizing and naming the papelonny pattern. Otherwise the whole thing is dead in the water from the start. In heraldry a papelonny pattern is one of the heraldic furs. It is a scale-like pattern as seen on fish, but the term is derived from the scales on the wing of a butterfly, from the French word for 'butterfly', which is 'papillon'. If heraldry is an overlooked field of investigation, then the papelonny pattern is an obscure bit of information in an overlooked field. Many references for heraldic furs show the variations of ermine and vair, but omit papelonny and plumetty (a feather pattern).
So a person investigating the VMs, doesn't know this obscure bit of information, can't name it, doesn't recognize it, even if looking right at it. How is that going to work? I know how it works. I did it for several years. It's called 'being oblivious.' It's something sitting in plain sight, and yet it is meaningless.
So where are the papelonny patterns? There are scale-like patterns on a tub in the outer circle of VMs Pisces and on another in the inner circle of Dark Aries, both in the approximate 10 to 11 o'clock position. And there you have it. Pretty punny, huh? <Well , of course, not!> And that is because you've only found the patterns, but don't understand what they are doing. That understanding depends on the investigation and interpretation of White Aries.
If the blue-striped patterns of White Aries, disguised in a radial format, are intended to be suggestive of the Fieschi armorial insignia (bendy, argent et azur), and two individuals from this family were 13th century popes, (Innocent IV and Adrian V), then it might also be noted that a certain positional arrangement exists between the blue-striped patterns and the two papellonny patterns from the preceding pages. They correspond in placement in both sphere and quadrant. And (the finishing touch) the French word for 'pope' is 'pape' - - 'Pape' and 'Papelonny' corresponding in an intentional construction. Hidden in plain sight. All it takes is the recovery of traditional terminology, to name what can be seen, but it's harder than XXXX to find an unfamiliar tradition in a hidden and/or disguised representation.
An alternative approach to White Aries is to look at the hats. What is known about medieval hats? What is known about the heraldic interpretations and the historical traditions of ecclesiastical hats?
"So you are saying that the VM could be a jest, a stunt, a piece of medieval performance art?"
I agree with what Koen and JKP have posted. In my opinion, I'm not saying that I believe the whole VMs is a stunt, etc., but there is some chance that it could be a possibility, just as other potential scenarios might have served as motivation. Currently, IMO, we don't have enough information to know the reasons for VMs creation. We need to have some idea of the thinking behind VMs creation, before we can attempt to assign motivation.
The papelonny pun is an example of something similar to heraldic canting or interpreting a rebus. Functionally the method of interpretation starts with an image (the picture of an eye), the image must be correctly named in the relevant language (eye), and the sound of the word is then punned to an alternate interpretation (I). So the picture sequence: eye + heart + fish (a pike) could be read as "I love Lucy". Which only works when the relevant medieval terminology for the fish is known.
And the actual 'humor', such as it is, is more witty, rather than something evoking laughter. It is like a joke, however, in that you either 'get it', or you don't get it. And for VMs investigation there has been a lot of the latter.
So, the first part of understanding the papelonny pun, is knowing, recognizing and naming the papelonny pattern. Otherwise the whole thing is dead in the water from the start. In heraldry a papelonny pattern is one of the heraldic furs. It is a scale-like pattern as seen on fish, but the term is derived from the scales on the wing of a butterfly, from the French word for 'butterfly', which is 'papillon'. If heraldry is an overlooked field of investigation, then the papelonny pattern is an obscure bit of information in an overlooked field. Many references for heraldic furs show the variations of ermine and vair, but omit papelonny and plumetty (a feather pattern).
So a person investigating the VMs, doesn't know this obscure bit of information, can't name it, doesn't recognize it, even if looking right at it. How is that going to work? I know how it works. I did it for several years. It's called 'being oblivious.' It's something sitting in plain sight, and yet it is meaningless.
So where are the papelonny patterns? There are scale-like patterns on a tub in the outer circle of VMs Pisces and on another in the inner circle of Dark Aries, both in the approximate 10 to 11 o'clock position. And there you have it. Pretty punny, huh? <Well , of course, not!> And that is because you've only found the patterns, but don't understand what they are doing. That understanding depends on the investigation and interpretation of White Aries.
If the blue-striped patterns of White Aries, disguised in a radial format, are intended to be suggestive of the Fieschi armorial insignia (bendy, argent et azur), and two individuals from this family were 13th century popes, (Innocent IV and Adrian V), then it might also be noted that a certain positional arrangement exists between the blue-striped patterns and the two papellonny patterns from the preceding pages. They correspond in placement in both sphere and quadrant. And (the finishing touch) the French word for 'pope' is 'pape' - - 'Pape' and 'Papelonny' corresponding in an intentional construction. Hidden in plain sight. All it takes is the recovery of traditional terminology, to name what can be seen, but it's harder than XXXX to find an unfamiliar tradition in a hidden and/or disguised representation.
An alternative approach to White Aries is to look at the hats. What is known about medieval hats? What is known about the heraldic interpretations and the historical traditions of ecclesiastical hats?