(05-12-2018, 10:58 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It's not a teepee and we don't know what it is. If we did, it wouldn't quite be the "world's most mysterious manuscript".
Koen G, I'd like you know that I fully understand your position. In view of highly popularized speculations that the VMS was compiled in Italy, and with carbon analysis indicating a creation date many decades prior to the arrival of Columbus, most people would venture to say that there isn't a chance in hell that the VMS could be depicting the portable housing of the Plains Indians of North America.
Moreover, tepees lack support from within the VMS itself, for example, there are no direct depictions of the native Americans who would have lived in them. To all appearances, therefore, for the tepee to be a tepee, the 16th-century owners of the VMS must have decided to purge the manuscript of all depictions of the Americas and its inhabitants. With England facing invasion and book-burning terror by the Spanish and its Inquisition, it isn't hard to imagine a motive for doing that. Hence, the original VMS had to have been much larger than the manuscript currently at Yale; how much larger is unknown. It looks like even the astrology section, unrelated to native Americans, may be missing half its pages: ten pages of clothed people and two pages of naked women. Possibly only the stars section, alleged to encode a lost work of divine revelation, escaped the purge intact.
Also surviving the purge would be depictions of things that were unknown to or unidentifiable by people in England during the 16th century, like the armadillo and, of course, our tepee. That has to be why we see a tepee in the manuscript today: they simply didn't know what it was having explored, at that time, no more than a part of Virginia, located far from the Great Plains.
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Here we see the tepee on the far right. Note the crisscrossed logs coming out the top corresponding precisely with what we can view on Google images for tepees. All of the images depicted here, including the tepee, surround a field of martyrs whose souls are represented by stars. What do all these depictions have in common, or, what could they all have in common?
Answer: All these images could be depicting the earthly housing of the believers prior to their martyrdom whereupon they ascended to the spiritual world (depicted in other parts of the rosettes folio). As lodging, what looks like a tepee would most certainly be a tepee. And let's not forget that the tepee Indians hunted bison, a close relative of domestic cattle, whose skin would have provided plenty of parchment for the VMS.
It is important to resolve the issue of the tepee: it seems no one wants to give serious consideration to my 72-letter theory for decoding the VMS because the 72 letters were likely unknown to Italian monks during the 15th century. But they would have been known to European missionaries who arrived at the Great Plains in the 13th century with the objective of making converts there.
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