I just made the mistake of looking at the chapter on zoomorphic imagery.
Janick writes this about the green-pool You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. with the many critters:
"Fig. 1. Folio 79v from the Voynich Codex depicts a scene from a pool of water and includes five different animals (left to right) resembling an alligator gar (Atractoseus spatula) swallowing a woman, a lizard, an iguana (Ctenosaura similis), a paca (Agouti paca), and a coatimundi (Nasua sp.)."
Is there anyone on this forum, who thinks the creature that the nymph is emerging from or being swallowed by, or is standing in (or wearing) is an alligator? Does it even remotely resemble an alligator?
Since he has co-authored the paper on identifying the VMS plants, the issue of identification is important. It's quite concerning that he identifies that fishlike creature as an alligator (alligators have legs). Am I wrong in thinking this cannot be an alligator? Does this ID have any credibility?
Janick writes this about the green-pool You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. with the many critters:
"Fig. 1. Folio 79v from the Voynich Codex depicts a scene from a pool of water and includes five different animals (left to right) resembling an alligator gar (Atractoseus spatula) swallowing a woman, a lizard, an iguana (Ctenosaura similis), a paca (Agouti paca), and a coatimundi (Nasua sp.)."
Is there anyone on this forum, who thinks the creature that the nymph is emerging from or being swallowed by, or is standing in (or wearing) is an alligator? Does it even remotely resemble an alligator?
Since he has co-authored the paper on identifying the VMS plants, the issue of identification is important. It's quite concerning that he identifies that fishlike creature as an alligator (alligators have legs). Am I wrong in thinking this cannot be an alligator? Does this ID have any credibility?