21-01-2021, 08:52 PM
Even though they lived in another cultural universe, I'm sure the authors of the VM had a sense of coherence like ours. I think the VM has a meaning. It seems more mysterious to me to think that it does not have it. Is a book where what we see above all are plants and stars. It seems coherent to think that the script is precisely something invented to relate these two elements: plants and stars.
It seems also coherent to think that the glyphs with the same shapes are intrinsically related. For example, it seems that t k and
p f have something in common. In the mind of the scribe they have an almost similar function.
The stars mark the passage of time. If we think of paragraphs of the VM script as units of time, the gallows fulfill one of the golden rules of their grammar. p f start the paragraphs or are on the first lines because they are special points on the sphere: the nodes where eclipses occur. t k mark the meridians in both hemispheres. They are more common. Not whenever the sun and the moon meet there are eclipses.
It seems also coherent to think that the glyphs with the same shapes are intrinsically related. For example, it seems that t k and
p f have something in common. In the mind of the scribe they have an almost similar function.
The stars mark the passage of time. If we think of paragraphs of the VM script as units of time, the gallows fulfill one of the golden rules of their grammar. p f start the paragraphs or are on the first lines because they are special points on the sphere: the nodes where eclipses occur. t k mark the meridians in both hemispheres. They are more common. Not whenever the sun and the moon meet there are eclipses.