stars attached to women

  

Why has every women on the zodiac pages (70 and above) a star attached to herself ?
The ‘zodiac-pages’ all have 20 women in the outer circle and 10 in the inner circle, which makes 30 days equal to 30 women. Except a few zodiac pages, they have 10 outside and 5 inside and makes 15. Even the zodiac-page ‘virgo’ (f72v3) with a woman inside has a star attached.

It is rather an exception when a figure has no star attached there!

 

But the woman in f71v, the zodiac for gemini, does not have a star:

 

Are there stars on all zodiacs?
Let us see: aries: no  taurus: no  gemini: no cancer: no leo: no libra: no  sagittarius: no
virgo: yes star,  scorpius: yes star, pisces: yes star
All these stars have ..points.

But why has Scorpius a star and Sagitarius none ? Because he is a man?

Let us look at F57v:

f57v: no stars

Then we see on f57v but also on the f75 and further a lot of women, but no stars for them.

 And further more on the “recipes-pages” all these tailed stars are there in the margin of the text:

 

By accident i stumbled upon this page with the text:

The motto of the Observatoire linguistique dates from 1990 – in French : Dans la galaxie des langues, la voix de chaque personne est une étoile:  “In the galaxy of languages, each person’s voice is a star”. From the year 2000 UNESCO adopted and adapted the Linguasphere Observatoire’s motto in the form: “In the galaxy of languages, each word is a star”.

 

Snorri Sturluson ((1179 – 1241)
was an Icelandic writes (poets), and politician who wrote several books and is most famous for his Prose Edda or Younger Edda, which consists of Gylfaginning (“the fooling of Gylfi”), a narrative of Norse mythology, the Skáldskaparmál, a book of poetic language, and the Háttatal, a list of verse forms. He was also the author of the Heimskringla, a history of the Norwegian kings that begins with legendary material in Ynglinga saga and moves through to early medieval Scandinavian history.

Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prose_Edda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snorri_Sturluson

Below :
Illustrations from years 1660 …1770  (text translated by ReverendÓlafur Brynjólfsson from ‘Prose Edda’ by Snorri, original was written in 13th century), showing that stars can be attached to people and animals, as long as they are gods or god-like. Link: see also this website

	Book Cover Edda 1666
	by  Jakob Sigurðsson (1727-1779) The two ravens Hugin and Munin on Odin’s shoulders in the top left corner you clearly see the sun is attached to Odin
	by  Jakob Sigurðsson (1727-1779) King Gylfi gets himself beguiled. From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland.
	Olaus Verelius 1618-1682 the Swedish King Gylfi, who is in disguise as Gangleri (copperplate engraving)

Why is the sun/star connected to the person?

With the kind e-mail from Gerdur Steinthorsdóttir he answered as follows:

The person “Þridie” is poetic synonym for Óðinn/Odinn. The sun icon originates from Olaus Verelius copperplate rendering of Uppsala-Edda´s Gylfaginning illustration in Gautreks Saga (1664:42a).

Verelius wanted to connect pagan and classical mythology  and asserted that the Temple of Uppsala had originally been the Temple of Apollo, and therefore both temples could have been associated with the sun icon. Johannis Schefferus, another Swedish scholar, opposed the association of the Temple with that of Apollo. He may have retained the sun icon because the sun was considered to be the king of celestial bodies and Óðinn/Odinn, being one of the Æsir/Aesir, was an astral deity.

     The sun icon was originally a pen trial in Uppsala-Edda, a face with a crown that transformed into an icon of the sun with a human face.  Consequently, when the sun icon is present in renderings it indicates that the illustration was not copying  directly from Uppsala-Edda but from a rendering of Verelius copperplate.

 The answer is based on paper from The 14^th International Saga Conference in Uppsala, 9^th-15^th August 2009

“Individuality and Iconography: Jakob Sigruðsson´s Renderings of Codex Upsaliensis f.26v” by Patricia A. Baer, University of Victoria, Canada.

Gerdur Steinthorsdóttir/Gerður Steinþórsdóttir

 

 

Verelius copperplate

Perhaps a star is a sign of being divine ?
When you have a star attached you have a god-connection.

It it known that from the zodiac signs that the signs that carry a star are gods in Norse myths like pisces and Odin

 

Number of points on the stars
In the VMS there are many stars.  I counted the most of them having 6, 7 or 8 points.
At folio’s where the author could have taken extra time in drawing the stars in the middle (f.e. zodiac) it seems that the stars have 7 points.
OVUM ZOROASTRÆUM

I did not find another manuscripts yet, in the same period of time with stars,

but look at this drawing, ‘OVUM ZOROASTRÆUM, From Kircher, Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Rome, 1652-4)’.

We see that stars drawn by hand are often a bit out of shape. It is quite probable that it does not really matter how many points there are on a star during that time.

If that is true, we do need to look further and try to depict a deeper meaning behind the number of points on the stars, because there is no specific meaning intended by the writer of the VMS.

Giving or taking a star

On f82r something very special is happening:
a lying woman, with her eyes closed, is receiving, or perhaps (symbolic) going to a (7-pointed) star.  She is dreaming, she is sleeping or she is dead ?

I can think of these events:

a* a star influences her dream
b* a star is taken from her
c* a star is given to her

Statement:
The women on the left probably wants to move something. This comes from her hand being in the pipe and also the attitude of the body of pushing something. Also the roots, or hairs coming from the pipe show movement going from left to right. That is, the woman on the left that stands on a heart-shaped ‘bath-tub’  triggers an event where a Mega-star in the middle receives a special air-flow*, from which a star leaves and is given to her.

This star on the right is then a divine ‘healing star’ ?
The direction of this event also follows the flow of air from the tube is clearly from the left.
The tail on the star also has such a curve that it appears this comes from above and descents to the lady lying down.

Is this special star in the middle perhaps based on a Compass_rose?
That could mean that the VMS incorperated the 12 compass winds somethere perhaps?

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Compass_rose_from_Catalan_Atlas_(1375).jpg

Note: * air-flow: read the page with that title for more images.

 

Symbols

* Goddess Anahit: see page Armenian:  symbol for star

* national emblem of country Azerbaijan: 

The state emblem of Azerbaijan mixes traditional and modern symbols. The focal point of the emblem is the fire symbol. This symbol comes from the fact that Azerbaijan has many everlasting fires which also gives the name “land of eternal fire”.

At the bottom of the emblem is a stalk of wheat, representing the main agricultural product of the nation, which was also part of the earlier arms. The other plant represented at the bottom is oak.

 

Sun of Vergina – A Greek symbol

Read more on:  http://history-of-macedonia.com/2008/04/10/sun-of-vergina-a-greek-symbol/

Or do the stars have a textual meaning, such as “ydem”…? Read more here

aug.2015

No, i think simply the stars connected the same as “the Key of Solomon” (KoS). wiki

It probably dates back to the 14th or 15th century Italian Renaissance.

And there we are, back on the Hebrew track again…

Although the VMS uses 7 pointed stars, and the KoS has 5 pointed stars. The resemblance is striking.

source of KoS:  English: Clavicula Salomonis manuscript, British Library, Oriental MS 14759, fol. 35a.  More information on esotheric. 

“It is, therefore, advisable to know that the hours of the day and of the night together, are twenty-four in number, and that each hour is governed by one of the seven planets in regular order, commencing at the highest and descending to the lowest.

The order of the planets is as follows: ShBThAI, Shabbathai, Saturn;
beneath Saturn is TzDQ, Tzedeq, Jupiter;
beneath Jupiter is MADIM, Madim, Mars;
beneath Mars is ShMSh, Shemesh, the Sun;
beneath the Sun is NVGH, Nogah, Venus;
beneath Venus is KVKB, Kokav, Mercury;
and beneath Mercury is LBNH, Levanah, the Moon, which is the lowest of all the planets.”

 

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If you at the time period stars are used as text bullets, but more often for zodiacs.

See for example:

LIBER PHYSIOGNOMIAE
writer: unknown
Nearly 1440 − Padua and/or Ferrara (IT)
Pages: about 70-78

http://www.facsimilefinder.com/facsimiles/liber-physiognomiae-facsimile#description

21-2-2016

If you search for the greek mythological twins Dioscuri.

You can find these images:

In Greek mythology, the Dioscuri (Διόσκουροι) Castor/Kastor and Polydeuces (Πολυδεύκης)/Pollux were the twin sons of Leda.
Also known as the Gemini, Latin for twins.

They are called the Dioscuri (dios kouroi), meaning the “Sons of Zeus” although it is not certain who their father is.

Also images: (stock photo’s/ private)

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-berlin-germany-altes-museum-bronze-statue-of-castor-and-horse-beside-47509040.html

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-berlin-germany-altes-museum-bronze-statue-of-pollux-and-horse-beside-47508793.html

www.flickr.com/photos/7839660@N02/3019137835

You will see that the star often means ZODIAC or SACRED.

 

Update 5-5-2016

On the right of the star: Stella