No text? A visual code!
R. Sale > 18-02-2022, 08:45 PM
There was a lot of visual code in place in the relevant (C-14) Middle Ages. Part of that visual code was heraldry. Heraldry is clearly a part of the VMs. The cosmic nebuly line speaks for itself. And otherwise, heraldic connections might be a bit obscure and hard to read. The difficulties here are twofold, in the ambiguity of the source (VMs) and in the historical obscurity of the reference. Heraldry is doubly disadvantaged, but, unlike astrology and alchemy and medieval mumbo-jumbo, it is a relatively simple topic with fixed interpretations. In other words, a code. A code that could identify individuals and families and their noble ancestry and royal ranking, and ecclesiastical orders and ranking as well, without the use of the spoken or written word. A code. And not just through recognition, but in various cases through heraldic canting.
As to the text, there's plenty of it. No shortage there. Some attempts at interpretation remain in limbo, the rest have fallen through the grate. Various attempts to interpret the data occur, but they are lacking the direction for any specific examples of text. The VMs drawings may relate to the stars, but can they relate to and designate specific segments of text? In deed, they can. Heraldry is a visual code that gives the VMs historical grounding and textual specificity in combination.
Analysis of the VMs text, will depend on methodology. But the other part is selection of the specimen to be analyzed.