20-02-2016, 11:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 20-02-2016, 11:34 AM by Diane.
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Don, I saw a marvellous "mermaid comb" yesterday while looking at ivory work in Ireland and the Hebrides.
No mermaid attached to it, but a phoenix defeating a dragon, and he has a lily-tail.
Called the Jedburgh comb, made about 1100 AD.
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PS - notice his long but not pointed ears? That's like little one on folio 25v. Lots of other early medieval examples, from as early as the late seventh-early eighth century. But most of them in ivory first, and in Ireland or the Hebrides. I suspect the Voynich dragon-baby's "extra foot" on his tail started out as a lily-tail.
Did you know that King Alfred the Great sent someone to India, to the Community of Thomas? Modern scholars keep trying to minimise or re-interpret the evidence, but I believe it!
No mermaid attached to it, but a phoenix defeating a dragon, and he has a lily-tail.
Called the Jedburgh comb, made about 1100 AD.
pic.
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PS - notice his long but not pointed ears? That's like little one on folio 25v. Lots of other early medieval examples, from as early as the late seventh-early eighth century. But most of them in ivory first, and in Ireland or the Hebrides. I suspect the Voynich dragon-baby's "extra foot" on his tail started out as a lily-tail.
Did you know that King Alfred the Great sent someone to India, to the Community of Thomas? Modern scholars keep trying to minimise or re-interpret the evidence, but I believe it!