Those umbrella/pinecone things

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...If Quire13 is related to those works, it should be interpreted strictly literally, but I find it difficult to believe that all images were meant to represent actual hydraulic works....

I would be surprised also. I would expect it to be laid out differently. But if one were to combine bathing advice with mythological references to bathing, and then simplify it to the drawing skill of the VMS, it might come out like this.


In the Middle Ages, before "truth in advertising", mineral and thermal baths all over the world were purported to heal just about everything and were considered to be inhabited by spirits, so these places had a certain mythical stature to begin with that might inspire an allegorical approach.