28-12-2023, 01:23 AM
You're definitely correct about the comparison. The VMs cosmos is somewhere else - and it doesn't use concentric planetary orbitals either. There aren't many options to put the planetary symbols in their proper astrological positions in accordance with their traditional zodiac domiciles. Moon in Cancer, Sun in Leo etc. The 4-1-1-1 pattern is an option. The VMs takes this quasi-astrological / astronomical pattern and goes completely astrological - just uses the pattern and eliminates the orbitals. It's something the VMs artist has done repeatedly. What looks like decorative ambiguity actually has valid historical significance, if the historical details are known, like the VMs cosmos and BNF Fr. 565 etc. - and what it took to get the proposed interpretation from Newbold to Velinska.