Women’s Anatomy

[Linda]

In terms of my own theory, i think Kassandra is involved both geographically and allegorically in this diagram. Her story links the history of the world with mythology, and in fact leads to a history of history, of mythology, and of knowledge, which links up with Plato's allegories regarding truth, which connects back to Cassandra again, in terms of the truth not being believed. I see connections with quire 14 with regard to this as well.

It is very possible that several myths and themes are mixed in intricate ways, and I like the way you think. The authors apparently tried to maximize ambiguity, even in the way they wrote glyphs that morphed into each other. They apparently liked to insert hidden meanings too. Maybe the most obvious are the human profile in a vine and the lion in a root. So there can be several layers of understanding, some much more difficult to grasp than others. Speculatively speaking many interpretations are possible and nothing can be 100 % certain until the text is understood. The labeled tubes on top of f. 77r and 77v could be related to astronomy through mythology. For example Eridanus was a river that the gods placed in the sky. In Hindu mythology "The Ganges River of the Sky" is the Milky Way. Similar ideas may have appeared in many places to explain how water magically appeared in the sky. That's my guess, anyway.

I do get the feeling that there are combined thoughts and themes being outlined. It seems like every time i see something in a different way, it is related to the way i thought about it before, and it informs the old way, thereby making both ways of thinking valid and dependant upon the other for explanation. 

That is why i don't see why anatomy could not also be included.

At the same time it makes for a lot of potential confusion and lots of possibilities for falling too deep down the rabbit hole. For myself, i am still trying to update my world tour idea with new specificity with regard to the images. I do see correlations with the rosettes section and the zodiac in terms of the manuscrpt being encyclopedic in nature, an attempt to give a state of the ecumene account, it seems, in a humanistic way, devoid of nationalism, religion, and other such constraints. They were translating many Greek texts at the time and so i think the manuscript is a product of the revelations that occurred from the knowledge gained from this endeavour. Perhaps that is part of why it is enciphered, no one language would do, too much of a constraint when the info is coming in from so many various cultures.

It would be wonderful to link the images to the text. The TO maps are interesting to that effect. Not the same but similar enough to be a clue, perhaps. Lots more to do.