No text, but a visual code

[R. Sale]

And the visual code is a product of the time as well. Though actually there are multiple codes; religion, astronomy, alchemy, astrology, and one of those codes was heraldry. In the time of the VMs C-14 dates, heraldry was a significant aspect of society. The recently posted list of armorial texts gives some indication of that.

Using heraldry, as a 'code', in both armorial and religious aspects, the VMs makes reference to historical persons and events. However, it does this in a highly atypical manner that is intentionally subtle, ambiguous and deceptive, from the cosmos, to the 'mermaid' and so on. It is like a sort of parody - once it can be rediscovered what the source of the parody was. The mermaid is Melusine. And Melisine of Luxembourg has a number of Valois connections. And the Fieschi popes of VMs White Aries have a historical connection with ecclesiastical tradition. Just a nymph with a red hat in a tub with blue stripes. Two-factor heraldic code is rather concise on the historical scale.