Why the rosettes image may not be a map at all

[Anton]

...you all lost me here, i thought this was about the rosette page?  

Now i read many pages about tents and poles and see images of nothing but tents... i am missing something somewhere

That's because the Rosettes seems to be filled with planar (and even isometric) depictions of tents (with poles).

To be clear, I don't think there is a connection of the VMS to the Chinese calendar. Humboldt's observation is just based on the fact that 37 lunar cycles are almost exactly three years, which might explain the number of 37 moons (if they are indeed moons) in the rosette.

I wander what's the origin of number 37 in the indians' calendar, to begin with. Why 37, but not 35 or 43?

And if these shapes are moons indeed, and, further, if their number is there to represent the cycle, and, furthermore, if the 37-moons cycle is met with nowhere but among the natives of Colombia, then the VMS becomes even more weird...

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I would like to note that the two yellow shapes surrounding these 37 "crescents" are very much like the pattern in the centre of f67r1 which apparently depicts moon. This is an indirect confirmation that moon is indeed the concern here.

Next, the surrounding shape or background consisting of white and blue "petals" is in a certain degree similar to the one in f86v4 (although in the latter there is variation in the size of the "petals", and also some obsure persons are hidden in between). And f86v4 also has Moon in the centre!