09-01-2017, 04:30 PM
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He calls the large woman Necessite, which makes this for sure an illustration of Plato's Myth of Er.
What puzzles me is that usually the Spheres would be represented in a diagram with concentric circles - this is the only instance where I have seen cosmic markings right on the spindle itself.
It might be that, like JKP suggests, they hunted through libraries looking for suitable material and found some source we don't know of. Through that tradition it could be linked, however indirectly, to the Voynich image.
What I think more likely at the moment is that we are seeing a case of convergent evolution. The thought of a spindle as the "engine" of fate and indeed the very movement of the cosmos was introduced very early in Western thought and would have been known to many from Antiquity to the Renaissance.
He calls the large woman Necessite, which makes this for sure an illustration of Plato's Myth of Er.
What puzzles me is that usually the Spheres would be represented in a diagram with concentric circles - this is the only instance where I have seen cosmic markings right on the spindle itself.
It might be that, like JKP suggests, they hunted through libraries looking for suitable material and found some source we don't know of. Through that tradition it could be linked, however indirectly, to the Voynich image.
What I think more likely at the moment is that we are seeing a case of convergent evolution. The thought of a spindle as the "engine" of fate and indeed the very movement of the cosmos was introduced very early in Western thought and would have been known to many from Antiquity to the Renaissance.