06-11-2023, 10:09 PM
Reading about Thema Mundi, I found an example of a planetary sequence called the Chaldean Order. It arranges planets in a sequence of their speed of apparent motion from the slowest, Saturn, to the fastest, the Moon. From fastest to the slowest, starting with the Moon in Cancer, it is followed by Mercury, then Venus, and the Sun is fourth; not second like the Thema Mundi from Macrobius.
While Macrobius may seem more likely. The Chaldean Order may be an alternative possibility to affirm or contradict. If you accept that the artist knew the "Oresme" cosmos and Shirakatsi's 'Eight Phases of the Moon' diagram, Chaldean astrology isn't that far out. There is a growing set of examples of a certain level of unexpected "sophistication" and the VMs cosmos is such an example. The use of heraldry and heraldic canting are others.
The 4-1-1-1 pattern would be made the same way in either case, but the label correspondence for Mercury, Venus and the Sun would be altered.
Is either version readable in a known language?
While Macrobius may seem more likely. The Chaldean Order may be an alternative possibility to affirm or contradict. If you accept that the artist knew the "Oresme" cosmos and Shirakatsi's 'Eight Phases of the Moon' diagram, Chaldean astrology isn't that far out. There is a growing set of examples of a certain level of unexpected "sophistication" and the VMs cosmos is such an example. The use of heraldry and heraldic canting are others.
The 4-1-1-1 pattern would be made the same way in either case, but the label correspondence for Mercury, Venus and the Sun would be altered.
Is either version readable in a known language?
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