Why the rosettes image may not be a map at all

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MarcoP:

About this detail, I think Ellie Velinska is right: the two structures are rectangular tents or baldaquins, with hanging fringes and supporting poles. I can't see how they could be the four rivers of paradise.

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I can see this, but couldn't this just mean that Paradise is placed above the rest of the "world" of that rosette, just as the starry sky is in the central rosette?

Anton:

Von Humboldt You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (p. 127) that the ecclesiastical (if the term may be used) year of Muysca indians contained 37 moons. He further suggests (p. 235) that the cycle of twenty times thirty seven sunas is an Asiatic one, not specifying which Asicatic calendar this is exactly.

If I've understood correctly, he just says that this cycle of 20*37 sunas (thirty-day months) corresponds to 60 solar years. A 60-year cycle is present in the Chinese calendar, as a combination of a 10-year and a 12-year cycle.