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RE: f80r top nymphs - Bluetoes101 - 04-03-2018
Thanks JKP, looking at it now. It's interesting and I think if true, there will be more stories in the images.
I have noticed around three women holding a large wedding ring looking object, I wondered if it might be a handle that was pulled to release water but couldn't find much evidence of these being used at the time, what made me think of that was the bath houses in "spirited away" where the spirits would pull on handles to request different things adding to the bath, obviously things being added to the bath water seems to show up a lot... but reading this story and the spindle makes me wonder if they are wedding rings after all. Has anyone done good research on these images?
RE: f80r top nymphs - Koen G - 04-03-2018
I think a number of these pages are structured along Ovidian stories. Thing is that I wrote these blog post when I was just starting to research the manuscript, I should really rewrite them some time.
For the rings, I think at least one of them is supposed to represent a mirror, see here: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
RE: f80r top nymphs - Bluetoes101 - 04-03-2018
Thanks koen g.
I definitely think it could be a mirror, but I also think in this example it could be a sign of a woman being un-wed, maybe a widow. The ring being in the right hand and not the left is what leads me to think this.
RE: f80r top nymphs - davidjackson - 05-03-2018
Actually, in medieval times the ring was usually worn on the right hand - this was due, I understand, to a passage in the Bible.
Protestants started to switch hands in order to break away from the Catholic tradition. Catholic Bishops and the like still wear their rings on their right hands in the old fashion, and I seem to remember that central European Christians (or is it Orthodox Christians?) still wear their wedding rings on the right hand.
Edit: Mind you, the whole subject is obscure. The Romans, for example, believed in the Vena Amoris, a vein in the fourth finger of the left hand which ran straight to the heart, which is another cited source for the western sinister "ring finger".
RE: f80r top nymphs - Bluetoes101 - 05-03-2018
That's interesting thank you, I was only really aware of the left hand and link to heart part. I guess that's why these images can be so frustrating, there's a valid argument for everything