(21-02-2016, 02:01 PM)david wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.f79r looks like a pipe (or log) that is staked - note the vertical lines either side of the figure.
I saw the vertical lines. These -representing pegs -actually are the reason why I think it is a wooden log and not a pipe.
You mention water: I am not entirely sure that that was the original intent or message to be conveyed. I have a strange feeling that that could be a sort of medieval 'comic strip'. Water, however, makes sense in a figurative sense, where all life (and forms of life) originated (NB: in connection with the following page - I post that separately later, also see the mermaid thread and the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. posted by -Job- where the latin inscription says 'et homo natus in piscibus' making water the source of life).
The carpenter (if I may call him like that) is surrounded in that section of the Voynich Manuscript by plenty of women. Interestingly, Aristoteles in De generatione animalium (1.22) refers to the male contribution to the embryology and genesis as 'carpenter' (the male contribution being of immaterial, forming character whereas the female contribution is the 'material' part).
(21-02-2016, 01:41 PM)Diane wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Juergenw,
Thanks for drawing attention to this. I've never seen anyone mention it before.
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Having looked at them both, I'd like to write a commentary for the pair. Would that be ok with you?
Diane, sure I asked for comments, so please feel free to contribute.