14-02-2016, 02:22 PM
Diane
Traditions are great. They help explain a lot of things.
The Avignon papacy does not help explain why the poses of the images in the Voynich Manuscript seem to match the pose of the merperson in the Hunterian Library.
I was not and am not seeking nor showing traditions of mermaids, only an image(s) that looks like the ones in the VMS. As you know, I don't care where the image is from nor if it fits into the grand scheme of traditions.
It exists.
Despite the traditions that you refer to, no other images seem to have yet been found and shared that show the same pose or implied action. Or even a pose or implied action in the same ballpark.
I have to believe the artist of the VMS probably got some of his models for the VMS images from somewhere a little more definite than a tradition. I know you don't like it because it doesn't fit tradition. Others probably don't like it because it originated and now resides too far north to fit their own schemes.
It exists.
Find a better model or likeness if you can and show it to me/us, please, rather than trying to make this one unimportant and unthinkable as a model for the VMS images. If you know of a traditional merperson in a manuscript that looks like it/he/she is getting out of a tail with one leg raised and is more or less like the VMS images in other ways, send it or a link to me in an email, post it here on this site or draw me a picture and snail mail it to me.
Or draw me a picture of the tradition that you think fits so much better as a model.
My model find seems to have one very major deficiency in your world of tradition...
it exists...
but it's not from where you think it should be.
Would it be an okay model if it was from Southern France or stayed there at some point?
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee
Traditions are great. They help explain a lot of things.
The Avignon papacy does not help explain why the poses of the images in the Voynich Manuscript seem to match the pose of the merperson in the Hunterian Library.
I was not and am not seeking nor showing traditions of mermaids, only an image(s) that looks like the ones in the VMS. As you know, I don't care where the image is from nor if it fits into the grand scheme of traditions.
It exists.
Despite the traditions that you refer to, no other images seem to have yet been found and shared that show the same pose or implied action. Or even a pose or implied action in the same ballpark.
I have to believe the artist of the VMS probably got some of his models for the VMS images from somewhere a little more definite than a tradition. I know you don't like it because it doesn't fit tradition. Others probably don't like it because it originated and now resides too far north to fit their own schemes.
It exists.
Find a better model or likeness if you can and show it to me/us, please, rather than trying to make this one unimportant and unthinkable as a model for the VMS images. If you know of a traditional merperson in a manuscript that looks like it/he/she is getting out of a tail with one leg raised and is more or less like the VMS images in other ways, send it or a link to me in an email, post it here on this site or draw me a picture and snail mail it to me.
Or draw me a picture of the tradition that you think fits so much better as a model.
My model find seems to have one very major deficiency in your world of tradition...
it exists...
but it's not from where you think it should be.
Would it be an okay model if it was from Southern France or stayed there at some point?
Thank you.
Don of Tallahassee