The middle of f82r as death or resurrection
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I agree that "four winds" would be a good explanation for the tubes.

I'll just add that the elaborate "star" could also be a floral motif. I've seen several examples but unfortunately I didn't record them. This is one I was able to retrieve:

   


From:
'Book of Fixed Stars' (Kitāb suwar al-kawākib al-ṯābita)
by ‛Abd al-Rahman ibn ‛Umar al-Ṣūfī,
dated 1009-10 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, manuscript Marsh 144)
Page 165 - Andromeda
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RE: The middle of f82r as death or resurrection - by Koen G - 24-07-2017, 10:10 PM

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