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[Barbrey]

I’ve always wondered if the top left rosette with its 37 moons might be related to the decans, with their considerable role in astrological medicine. Decans in Egyptian art were usually figures riding quarter-moon shapes as boats. Thirty-six of them, but sometimes a 37th to account for the intercal of 5 days, as at the Temple of Hathor. I don’t know what the VMS writers would have had access to though regarding decans, I.e whether they would have imaged them as quarter-moons. I think they easily could have if they’d seen or read about something like the Temple of Hathor hieroglyphs, but don’t know if they were imaged this way in medieval astrological writing.

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