02-10-2020, 07:59 PM
And the two VMs candidates.
Sounds like an election. The need to make a choice. But it's not like that. Two representations make a pair. And pairing is an interesting and significant element in the first part of the VMs Zodiac sequence.
Consider a text filled with idiosyncratic elements, none of which connect to any other. None of which can confirm any of the others. The VMs avoids this through the use of pairings. If begins with VMs Pisces.
This discussion now confirms these two potential references to the Duchy of Burgundy through known historical traditions. The first connecting the Duke of Burgundy, (Philip the Good, as originator of the knightly Order of the Golden Fleece), to the myth of Melusine and the traditional mythology of the ancestral origins of the Valois family lines, which were his own.
The second example is confirmed by a book from the library of the same duke of Burgundy. The Golden Fleece as the Agnus Dei, the Agnus Dei as the Golden Fleece, they confirm each each other. What better play on ambiguity? Ambiguity does not deny or confirm. It leaves the possibility open. However, when a possibility can be tied to historical tradition and it occurs in Deuteronomic pairings, it's less likely to be an accidental reference - something unknown to the author. The modern reader is a different story.
Having a pairing is so much different than having a bunch of singular, unrelated items. Whatever other interpretations might be made regarding these two examples, it can be said both of them can be connected to Burgundy. Not connected visually as much as ideologically. And that these ideas, as they are, exist because they were presented by VMs creator, ambiguator and obfuscator.
Sounds like an election. The need to make a choice. But it's not like that. Two representations make a pair. And pairing is an interesting and significant element in the first part of the VMs Zodiac sequence.
Consider a text filled with idiosyncratic elements, none of which connect to any other. None of which can confirm any of the others. The VMs avoids this through the use of pairings. If begins with VMs Pisces.
This discussion now confirms these two potential references to the Duchy of Burgundy through known historical traditions. The first connecting the Duke of Burgundy, (Philip the Good, as originator of the knightly Order of the Golden Fleece), to the myth of Melusine and the traditional mythology of the ancestral origins of the Valois family lines, which were his own.
The second example is confirmed by a book from the library of the same duke of Burgundy. The Golden Fleece as the Agnus Dei, the Agnus Dei as the Golden Fleece, they confirm each each other. What better play on ambiguity? Ambiguity does not deny or confirm. It leaves the possibility open. However, when a possibility can be tied to historical tradition and it occurs in Deuteronomic pairings, it's less likely to be an accidental reference - something unknown to the author. The modern reader is a different story.
Having a pairing is so much different than having a bunch of singular, unrelated items. Whatever other interpretations might be made regarding these two examples, it can be said both of them can be connected to Burgundy. Not connected visually as much as ideologically. And that these ideas, as they are, exist because they were presented by VMs creator, ambiguator and obfuscator.
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