[split] Zodiac Terminology discussion

[bunny]

There is not "a zodiac" in the VM. A Zodiac is one image that contains the twelve signs. What we see in the VM appears as a possibly incomplete series of month emblems, each on a separate page, surrounded by human figures. 

You can hypothesize that they use the signs of the Zodiac, or the constellations on the ecliptic, or probably many other things. But what is simply not there, is "a Zodiac".

JKP
It seems not everyone would in fact agree on the definition of a linear zodiac being a zodiac.  In ordinary circumstances face value may be the whole story but in a manuscript where the text may be coded, by any number of degrees of manipulation, the rest of it may also be.  Zodiac or not, linear or circular, illustrating one thing while referring in fact to another, heraldry, astronomy, planting seasons, who knows?  Is what is seen really what is meant?  Can a zodiac be like both linear and circular like the duel nature of light being a particle and a wave?  Are the folios meant to be manipulated to be "decoded"?  I suppose a lot of that depends on whether the manuscript is actually modern or old, real or fake, and there are many conflicting views about that one.  A bit like Schrodinger's cat, could be anything in the meantime.  

Time though is always linear, the past disintegrated, the future unformed, the sequence of seasons only exist because we have the expectation it will happen as we believe it always has.  We only exist in the present, the future a projection of the memory of the past giving us the belief that tomorrow will also exist.  

Bunny