(29-07-2017, 08:08 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Marco: As suggested before, the cannon might indicate the four cardinal directions or winds - those are basically the same in certain contexts. If it is tilted to the side in either direction, this places the travelling soul/star on the north-south axis.
Just as well as it might indicate a thousand different things. I suggested that it looks like a Greek-fire siphon. Anton suggested that it "may be interpreted as a Christian cross". I would say that if it can be seen as a cannon / Greek-fire siphon, a Christian cross and a wind rose it can be almost anything.
At the current state of our knowledge, specific interpretations have the same probability of being right as the specific translations discussed You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..