(25-02-2017, 04:07 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.In 84r there are six arches, not seven.
And I think what is labeled are nymphs, not arches.
I agree that it appears to be the nymphs, rather than arches that are labeled (the vord pairs and related nymph pairs suggest this).
But bear with me for the moment... this being the Voynich manuscript, the two half arches on each end might add up to one. For all we know, the labels might even wrap around, so that the one on the far left is associated with the one on the far right (I don't consider this likely, but still want to consider it possible, even if only briefly).
I see the arches (and the arches in medieval calendars) as a containment embellishment, not as the main focus, and was only trying to point out a visual similarity to something that is so frequently expressed in columns in medieval literature (it's not always easy to come up with the best examples at 6:00 am after a long workday but I think it's enough to get the idea across that some of the text MIGHT be intended to be interpreted differently from regular narrative format).
I don't know if those nymph poses can be related to anything celestial, but most days of the week names were based on gods/planets (Saturn–Saturday, Wednesday–Woden's Day, etc.). If the nymphs on the far ends in the half arches are actually a pair, like some of the others, then there are seven nymph groups. Yes, I know, a stretch, but since I think of this as a brain-storming thread on an idea that really hasn't been given much discussion, we can hopefully look outside the box in a few directions until the patterns become better understood.
[Note also that the lines coming out of the "pipe" on the left are ON TOP of the green paint. If they are original, and not later additions, then the paint may be contemporary with the creation of the underlying drawings.]