f67r1 and the supposed constellations

[Linda]

Semi-offtopic: why take the extra time and effort to create a notch in the inner connection for each of the spokes?

It gives it a 3d quality. 

The fabric of space? 

A void (blue) filled with stars (asterisks) and cosmic rays (red)(fire)

I think the face could be the new moon. This is from a 9th century depiction of the Metonic cycle. See the circle bottom left, near the top of it.



Although i do agree it would be the sun giving off the rays, so a solar eclipse maybe? That is when you can see those rays the best.

The half division with the blue, not sure, could also depict day and night? Water and earth? I think some have thought the asterisks to be vegetation in a garden...not the same as the stars? If the latter, the suns rays are fire...fire and air go up, water and earth down, maybe that is why the 3d depiction?

I feel like if we hit upon the correct idea, the verbal "translation" of what we see will give us words that will make sense in some way, like matching a description of medieval or ancient cosmology. For instance, perhaps there is a face on the sphere because it was thought that heavenly bodies had souls and/or intelligences moving them. This would apply to both the sun and the moon, among others.

Have to figure out which view it is describing, if it is one that can be identified.