Koen G > 19-07-2016, 08:28 PM
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Searcher > 08-12-2018, 10:58 PM
Quote:I'm not certain the "stars" in the upper right rosette are the same [as ones in the central rosette].I read VViews's blog post and knew JKP's opinion, but something confuses me here. What is the difference? They have the same shape, the only difference I can observe is different areas with different edges that tthe stars occupy. And besides, is it possible the map to contain the same shape, symbol or pattern for two or more meanings? Speaking about me, I never saw such maps.
At first I thought they might represent foliage, but VViews wrote a good blog that suggests they might be cartographic symbols.
-JKP- > 08-12-2018, 11:13 PM
Searcher > 09-12-2018, 01:44 PM
(08-12-2018, 11:13 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The upper-right rosette has different "star-like" shapes. They are not outlines, they are lines crossed, but many people still refer to them as "stars", probably because they are similar to the shapes on the series at 67v.
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Just because they are the same shape doesn't mean they have to have the same meaning. A star on a picture of Bethlehem has a different significance from a star on the end of a stick on a shield (which is a mace, a weapon, not a celestial star), and is also different from a star in a beaker in an alchemical drawing, and different again from a star on a marine map.
MarcoP > 22-04-2019, 08:16 AM
Quote:[The Egyptians] imagined the whole universe to be a large box, nearly rectangular in form, whose greatest diameter was from south to north, and its least from east to west. The earth, with its alternate continents and seas, formed the bottom of the box; it was a narrow, oblong, and slightly concave floor, with Egypt in its centre. The sky stretched over it like an iron ceiling, flat according to some, vaulted according to others. Its earthward face was capriciously sprinkled with lamps hung from strong cables, and which, extinguished or unperceived by day, were lighted, or became visible to our eyes, at night. Since this ceiling could not remain in mid-air without support, four columns, or rather four forked trunks of trees, similar to those which maintained the primitive house, were supposed to uphold it.
Koen G > 22-04-2019, 01:09 PM
Aldis Mengelsons > 22-04-2019, 02:14 PM
(08-12-2018, 11:13 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The upper-right rosette has different "star-like" shapes. They are not outlines, they are lines crossed, but many people still refer to them as "stars", probably because they are similar to the shapes on the series at 67v.You are absolutely right! As I know most of the "star" pages have no even a world about stars....like page 71r-syphilis and"crabs" or 68r-curing from headlice. Also 86v telling us a story about a great marriage, when a dress of bride was so shiny(decorated with some kinda jewels)that the castle square got so bright ...well, I believe there will be no star"things" at all into other pages.I like to believe some strange things and magic, but after 60 pages of reading, there is no star maps, space traveling or witchcraft )))))))
Those are the ones I thought might be foliage but VViews made a good argument that they might be cartographic symbols.
Just because they are the same shape doesn't mean they have to have the same meaning. A star on a picture of Bethlehem has a different significance from a star on the end of a stick on a shield (which is a mace, a weapon, not a celestial star), and is also different from a star in a beaker in an alchemical drawing, and different again from a star on a marine map.