The Voynich Ninja

Mary the Egyptian (Mary Magdalene) is sometimes drawn with very long hair.

To me it looks like her hair has been done up but some parts have come loose, i.e. disheveled. But I'm fine with "young woman". 

Also, she has duck feet.

(02-08-2019, 05:39 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To me it looks like her hair has been done up but some parts have come loose, i.e. disheveled. But I'm fine with "young woman". 

Also, she has duck feet.

"In No. 4 it is evidently the sorcerer who is depicted, waving in his hand a magic bough. This is the use we find in Babylonian magic, in which a branch of the date palm or tamarisk was held aloft to repel the demons" Quote from the book 'Aramaic Incantation Texts from Nippur' by James A. Montgomery 1913

This is a picture of a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.  depiction from the bowls used in incantations or magical charms to ward off evil in the household and protect children. University of Pennsylvania "University Museum Babylonian section Vol. 3."

An explanation of why the pictures are rude designs: "The rude figures and designs which can hardly be said to ador the bowls are part of the praxis. They come down from the earlier and more realistic age when gods and demons were represented by simulacra and in this wise were manipulated so as to do the sorcerer's will" taken from the same book,.

Adam and Eve (with long hair) and Lilith from a 14th-century Notre Dame sculpture. Lilith was a creature of the night (think moon and owls) and is said to have preyed upon pregnant women:




I don't know whether early depictions show her with a branch. She usually holds something like this, which doesn't look like a branch to me:




Some cast her as Adam's first lover but say she grew tired of him.

(02-08-2019, 08:23 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Adam and Eve (with long hair) and Lilith from a 14th-century Notre Dame sculpture. Lilith was a creature of the night (think moon and owls) and is said to have preyed upon pregnant women:




I don't know whether early depictions show her with a branch. She usually holds something like this, which doesn't look like a branch to me:




Some cast her as Adam's first lover but say she grew tired of him.

I'll try and explain the scalled covering above the nymph, if she is protector, it is protecting her, if she is Lilith it is holding her down.
quotes from the same book discussing the magic bowls. "...it refers to the magical armament of persons and things which power to resist the forces of evil... That is the magical equipment of a person or charm against evil. ... Paul... exhorted the Ephesians to 'put on the armor/panoply of God'... 
'a great wall of bronze', is equally parabolic; bronze possessed atropaic use in magic." Picture of  You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., notice the semicircular pattern of the armor. 

The nymph below this one has explanations from the Trotula "If a woman does not wish to conceive, let her carry against her nude body flesh of the womb of a goat which has never had offspring." 

Strange times indeed 

Interesting too that Lilith can also be found linked with Hecate et al. The first woman idea also fits in with the mother Earth identification, and in some traditions she is a mother protector and agricultural goddess as well.