22-06-2021, 05:32 PM
The composite nature of the VMs has led it to be called an alchemical herbal. That works for me. The question is whether the VMs really *is* an alchemical herbal or whether it merely has the appearance of an alchemical herbal and this is a façade for something else. For that determination, we need to know the written language, and we don't know the language.
All we have is a book full of illustrations. Every picture tells a story but the interpretations are problematic as well. That is because the representations were intended to be problematic. The use of combined and altered images shows a clear intent to disguise. Meanwhile, structure, pattern, color and number remain as the objective keys to identification. The duality of VMs White Aries confirms intentional ambiguity. And now an increasing selection of the historical objects of identification have been shown to belong in the same time frame as the C-14 dates.
All we have is a book full of illustrations. Every picture tells a story but the interpretations are problematic as well. That is because the representations were intended to be problematic. The use of combined and altered images shows a clear intent to disguise. Meanwhile, structure, pattern, color and number remain as the objective keys to identification. The duality of VMs White Aries confirms intentional ambiguity. And now an increasing selection of the historical objects of identification have been shown to belong in the same time frame as the C-14 dates.