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[R. Sale]

It's not so much about whether there are many males among the female nymphs. Females and males appear to be paired at the top of VMs Pisces. There are 'problems' with the dark ink "do overs". The question is about individual and group identity of the different character representations in the VMs. The first nymphs of the VMs zodiac sequence are clearly sidereal, but does that interpretation function uniformly for all nymphs or does the VMs artist also introduce nymphs from a second realm which is "water"?

A nymph and a star make a clear association. A nymph and a serpentine, undulating, meandering squiggle is *not* a clear association of any kind. That is / was the problem of interpretation, the lack of proper and relevant terminology. The example and definition have been found in early heraldry. The bulbous line pattern is a nebuly / gewolkt line with the specific cloud-based connotations throughout medieval European heraldry. A nymph and a cloud make a clear association. It is a different realm. It is an equivalent association.

The individual VMs people differ widely in their appearance and the attributes that some of them possess: rings, crosses, spindles, etc. There are paintings of rings of angels, where each one is identical. That's not the VMs. Some of the nymphs, at least, are clearly individuals.