Discussion of the Konstellations

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You know, Koen, all these possible double and triple meanings and the many roundels/wheels in the VMS remind me of the diagrams of Ramon Llull.

Lull developed the art of encapsulating information for teaching and for recall at a later time. Llull mostly created these diagrams in the context of teaching religion and scripture, but the general idea of "mnemonic charts" was very popular at the time and spread in various ways through scholarly circles.

If one is not familiar with the content of Llull charts, they seem very cryptic, but that was not their intention. It was assumed that you learned the basic concepts illustrated in the chart and then, when you come back to it, even if it were heavily abbreviated and seemingly obscure, it would nevertheless provide a memory jog for the information it encoded.