14-04-2020, 12:07 PM
I don't know how to decode the VM, but I have a strong suspicion founded on facts not hunches. I will summarize my ideas using the cogito ergo sum cartesian method.
1º We have a book with an script and images. We don't understand the script but we can recognize the illustrations. There are mainly herbs and stars. We see women holding stars in the signs of the zodiac, ergo they must be allegories of the stars, a well-know medieval resource.
2º There are especially herbs and stars in the VM, ergo the book should deal with the influence of the heavenly world on the terrestrial world, according to medieval philosophy and science.
3º It has been impossible to identify plants in years and years of research, ergo the authors of the book did not want to draw known herbs.
4º There are no known plants and the authors don't know Picasso, they are not 20th century artists, ergo there must be some astrological magic here.
5º The astrological magic is that the authors believe that stars can create the plants they imagine, ergo those herbs must be somewhere on Earth
6º The script of the book uses totally unknown glyphs, ergo it must be a system to link the stars with the plants using magical characters, although the authors believe or not in them. It can be just a game.
7º The most common glyph is a small circle and I have seen this small circle inside the drawings of the stars in the VM and in many medieval manuscripts, also in the drawings of the zodiacal signs in other codices. And what is more important, in a folio of the VM I have seen nine small circles in a row forming part of a sphere, ergo these small circles represent the degrees of the ecliptic, and by extension the stars themselves.
8º There is in the script another glyph that I have seen in the images of the VM: the inclined line. And this inclined line I have seen it also in manuscripts and astrolabes as marks in the ecliptic, ergo it must also be an astronomical symbol.
9º I've seen very rare glyphs called gallows that sometimes stretch and sometimes straddle other glyphs, like they're a graphic representation, ergo the script it's something that seems to move, not an alphabet
10º In many years of research no one has found an underlying language in the VM, ergo it must be a communication system that uses astronomical-astrological symbols. This system made sense for its authors
1º We have a book with an script and images. We don't understand the script but we can recognize the illustrations. There are mainly herbs and stars. We see women holding stars in the signs of the zodiac, ergo they must be allegories of the stars, a well-know medieval resource.
2º There are especially herbs and stars in the VM, ergo the book should deal with the influence of the heavenly world on the terrestrial world, according to medieval philosophy and science.
3º It has been impossible to identify plants in years and years of research, ergo the authors of the book did not want to draw known herbs.
4º There are no known plants and the authors don't know Picasso, they are not 20th century artists, ergo there must be some astrological magic here.
5º The astrological magic is that the authors believe that stars can create the plants they imagine, ergo those herbs must be somewhere on Earth
6º The script of the book uses totally unknown glyphs, ergo it must be a system to link the stars with the plants using magical characters, although the authors believe or not in them. It can be just a game.
7º The most common glyph is a small circle and I have seen this small circle inside the drawings of the stars in the VM and in many medieval manuscripts, also in the drawings of the zodiacal signs in other codices. And what is more important, in a folio of the VM I have seen nine small circles in a row forming part of a sphere, ergo these small circles represent the degrees of the ecliptic, and by extension the stars themselves.
8º There is in the script another glyph that I have seen in the images of the VM: the inclined line. And this inclined line I have seen it also in manuscripts and astrolabes as marks in the ecliptic, ergo it must also be an astronomical symbol.
9º I've seen very rare glyphs called gallows that sometimes stretch and sometimes straddle other glyphs, like they're a graphic representation, ergo the script it's something that seems to move, not an alphabet
10º In many years of research no one has found an underlying language in the VM, ergo it must be a communication system that uses astronomical-astrological symbols. This system made sense for its authors