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Obviously, as is typical of the time, it is an allegory. The figures are a personification of the fixed stars and show that they are the ones that spin the hours of day and night, the ones that spin circular and eternal time.

The distaff became the iconic symbol of women par excellence in the Middle Ages. It does not necessarily have to be interpreted that way.

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