I understand how by choosing everything, the effect is to have chosen nothing. There were bestiaries and there were early encyclopedic texts. However it is not through the written word that we could arrive at such an interpretation for the VMs, it is only through the illustrations.
The VMs was created to appear as if it were a book of knowledge, but it could only be from a tradition that is exotic and unreal. It's apparent cultural background is an intentional fiction. It is a cover for a disguised version of reality. Multiple investigations from the cosmos and the mermaid, to the golden fleece, etc., all point to a time in history that agrees quite nicely with the parchment C-14 dates.
And then there is the matter of historical tradition in the church. Red hats and blue stripes, clear as a bell to those who know the Fieschi insignia in the origin of ecclesiastical tradition. White Aries is a tour-de-force of subtle trickery and sophistication in its construction and clearly shows a duality of interpretation. This is where historical reality has been hidden. And it is an interesting choice because religious tradition might be expected to persist far into the future, and because the example available also conforms to the Deuteronomic requirement of pairs or better. At the same time, for those unfamiliar, there is nothing.
So perhaps we could call the construction of a complete and over-arching deception as being a sort of an over all thematic motivation. It's 'Jeopardy' for the early 1400s. Whose cosmos is this? What have they done to it? Who has replaced the generic mermaid? Is that supposed to look like a sheep? Does the discovery of historical connections reveal something further?
The VMs was created to appear as if it were a book of knowledge, but it could only be from a tradition that is exotic and unreal. It's apparent cultural background is an intentional fiction. It is a cover for a disguised version of reality. Multiple investigations from the cosmos and the mermaid, to the golden fleece, etc., all point to a time in history that agrees quite nicely with the parchment C-14 dates.
And then there is the matter of historical tradition in the church. Red hats and blue stripes, clear as a bell to those who know the Fieschi insignia in the origin of ecclesiastical tradition. White Aries is a tour-de-force of subtle trickery and sophistication in its construction and clearly shows a duality of interpretation. This is where historical reality has been hidden. And it is an interesting choice because religious tradition might be expected to persist far into the future, and because the example available also conforms to the Deuteronomic requirement of pairs or better. At the same time, for those unfamiliar, there is nothing.
So perhaps we could call the construction of a complete and over-arching deception as being a sort of an over all thematic motivation. It's 'Jeopardy' for the early 1400s. Whose cosmos is this? What have they done to it? Who has replaced the generic mermaid? Is that supposed to look like a sheep? Does the discovery of historical connections reveal something further?
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