13-01-2017, 08:40 PM
(13-01-2017, 07:20 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I know it could be argued that maybe the big-plants section emphasizes a different part of the plant than the small-plants section (e.g., maybe one is for identification and one is for identifying the useful part of the plant), but once again, I looked into this in-depth, as well and, as far as I can see, when plants are duplicated in the small-plants section, they are drawn pretty much same as their counterpart in the big-plants section.
One of the things I am rather certain about (as far as certainty is allowed to exist in the Voynich world) is that the same plant can look vastly different between both sections. So I would strongly advise against using this as a determining factor.
My reasons for believing this are as follows:
- The plants that are exactly repeated are scarce. Would it even be 10%?
- Not all plants in the small plant section are mnemonic-heavy, leaving room for some relatively normal depictions and hence repetition.
- The small plant section is generally more "honest" in drawing the fruits, while those tend to become very abstract or even hidden in the large plants. The Okra example would be an excellent illustration of that.
- Most importantly, both plant sections use different mnemonic systems. To quote Diane, they are not pictures of the plants, but about the plants. The large plant drawings are about the usefulness of the plants, while in my opinion the mnemonic-heavy small plants are about its indigenous name.
Imagine that the person who first made this disconnected all plant bits, threw them on a big pile, added some other stuff for the roots, and then carefully chose those parts he needed to cleverly convey his message. Both plant sections contain artificial constructs (as should be clear from the way the small "okra" plant looks), but these constructs have different purposes and hence look different.

