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So she has to stir the river while they flow down in it?
The green liquid is the flow of the sap from the plants. :-) I really have decoded it
(13-04-2025, 11:21 AM)Kris1212 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The green liquid is the flow of the sap from the plants. :-) I really have decoded it
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Hi Dana, I think your analysis is correct. And yes, the green is plant sap. The voynich is a Celtic worldview that was in harmony with nature. And yes, there are plant devas in the ancient beliefs. I have some information about this in my post. "a journey into an unknown world"
Is it okay with you if I add the "spurtle" note with your name to my thread?
"It was around 2025 when we discovered the spittle, and I believe that's when the mystery really started to unravel. The nymphs, thrashing about in the river with their entire bodies, had tasked one among their number with an essential task: stirring the liquids with 'a Scottish stirring stick used most frequently to mix oatmeal and porridge'. No researcher had at that point considered when the spurtle was invented, what it looked like in the 15th century or whether there are any historical depictions of the object. Such tedious analysis was altogether unnecessary, since the identification was welcomed by not one, but two (2!) people's mutually exclusive Celtic theories. The question of why a nude figure was depicted stirring a stream with an obscure Scottish breakfast implement had become irrelevant: it just made sense."
It's funny to see this iconographic theme again. Two years ago, I related the staff carried by one of the female figures to medieval pilgrim staffs and included this image of a pilgrimage to Rome.
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You can see the resemblance of the knob of the staff carried by the female figure to the one carried by the pilgrims.
But finding a similarity between two images isn't enough to provide a correct iconographic interpretation. It's necessary to give meaning to the whole, not just to a part. The really important thing is to interpret what we see throughout folio f75r. What I see is a few female figures descending a kind of slide from the roof of what appears to be a tent.
I think it's obvious, although time has made me see that what is obvious to me is not obvious to others, that what we see is the personification of the stars coming down from the sky. In this interpretive context, it makes sense that one of the figures carries a pilgrim's staff because it's an allegory of travel. The stars embark on a journey, although what is meant to be represented is their influence on Earth.
It's not necessary for the author to include a pilgrim's staff on every female figure. Simply placing it on one of them makes the symbolism clear. The same thing happens when we see spindles or rings with gems on some of the figures on other pages of Quire 13. It's not necessary to include these elements on all of them to symbolize that they are the stars that spin time and shine in the sky like precious stones.
So at all, it is not more than a stick with a knob.
All other is just imagination.
Bravo Stefan, you're making progress.