The thing that has revealed our limitations is the lack of familiarity with the relevant details of history, tradition, religion and science as represented in the VMs illustrations - present company excepted, of course.
Consider the investigation of the VMs mermaid on VMs f79v. Over 100 years of research and nobody really knew what to make of her. A female Jonah and the whale? Or just a mermaid? Only a few years ago, someone brought the medieval myth of Melusine to the ninja discussion. Not only did the lines of Valois descendants claim ancestry from the mermaid-like version of Melusine through Bonne of Luxembourg, but her son, Jean, Duke of Berry, had several connections to the dragon-like Melusine of Lusignan.
William Newbold suggested that the VMs cosmos was Roger Bacon's telescopic illustration of the Andromeda galaxy. After a century of confusion, the Oresme cosmos of BNF Fr 565 provides a much better comparison. And even then, it is a determination based on a similarity of structure, rather than a similarity of appearance.
In the fog of confusion, a single fact can be of great importance. Such a fact is found in the VMs cosmos. That fact is that the VMs artist knows that a nebuly like can be used as a cosmic boundary. That fact is then put to use in the identification of the VMs 'critter' of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - variously described as an armadillo, a pangolin, a dragon, even as a representation of the Golden Fleece. However, the critter is not alone - there are two other artistic elements below it. A century of investigation found no real explanation for this. However, if the nebuly line is interpreted as the representation of a cosmic boundary, then the question becomes: What critter is associated with a cosmic boundary? Then the answer is simple: the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God. The particular, three-part structure of the VMs representation is matched by the illustration of BNF Fr. 13096 f.18, which provenance later places in the <Valois> Duke of Burgundy's library. (1430, origin of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy)
The Golden Fleece is put in place of the Agnus Dei. The Luxembourg version of Valois Melusine is substituted for the generic mermaid of Harley 334 and the Lauber illustrations. The Oresme cosmos sits inside of Shirakatsi's wheel with eight curved spokes. The use of combined images is a trick employed by the VMs artist to create ambiguous illustrations. Once is chance; twice is coincidence; three times is methodology. White Aries holds an obfuscated reference to a unique, combined set of factors regarding Catholic church history and tradition based on heraldry.
Consider the investigation of the VMs mermaid on VMs f79v. Over 100 years of research and nobody really knew what to make of her. A female Jonah and the whale? Or just a mermaid? Only a few years ago, someone brought the medieval myth of Melusine to the ninja discussion. Not only did the lines of Valois descendants claim ancestry from the mermaid-like version of Melusine through Bonne of Luxembourg, but her son, Jean, Duke of Berry, had several connections to the dragon-like Melusine of Lusignan.
William Newbold suggested that the VMs cosmos was Roger Bacon's telescopic illustration of the Andromeda galaxy. After a century of confusion, the Oresme cosmos of BNF Fr 565 provides a much better comparison. And even then, it is a determination based on a similarity of structure, rather than a similarity of appearance.
In the fog of confusion, a single fact can be of great importance. Such a fact is found in the VMs cosmos. That fact is that the VMs artist knows that a nebuly like can be used as a cosmic boundary. That fact is then put to use in the identification of the VMs 'critter' of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. - variously described as an armadillo, a pangolin, a dragon, even as a representation of the Golden Fleece. However, the critter is not alone - there are two other artistic elements below it. A century of investigation found no real explanation for this. However, if the nebuly line is interpreted as the representation of a cosmic boundary, then the question becomes: What critter is associated with a cosmic boundary? Then the answer is simple: the Agnus Dei, the Lamb of God. The particular, three-part structure of the VMs representation is matched by the illustration of BNF Fr. 13096 f.18, which provenance later places in the <Valois> Duke of Burgundy's library. (1430, origin of the Order of the Golden Fleece by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy)
The Golden Fleece is put in place of the Agnus Dei. The Luxembourg version of Valois Melusine is substituted for the generic mermaid of Harley 334 and the Lauber illustrations. The Oresme cosmos sits inside of Shirakatsi's wheel with eight curved spokes. The use of combined images is a trick employed by the VMs artist to create ambiguous illustrations. Once is chance; twice is coincidence; three times is methodology. White Aries holds an obfuscated reference to a unique, combined set of factors regarding Catholic church history and tradition based on heraldry.
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