Women’s Anatomy

[Alyx Black]

The whole page has always looked anatomical to me, and yes, my first impression of the "coils" on the right was that they might represent a colon, and that the body part on the left middle was a penis and testicles. The ones on the lower left and right, I wasn't sure whether they might be bladder or uterus (or both).

Having said that, I agree with the comments above that the VMS appears to be shrouded in layers of meaning or combinations of symbology. Many aspects appear to have multiple interpretations and, throughout the manuscript, one gets the feeling that this is deliberate.

Agreed re layers and combinations. I was looking at Plato's analogies recently.



I guess we have to think outside the cave, so to speak.

Yes exactly, everyone for a long time started with the words, which I think we may or may not ever distinguish.  If they were from a very isolated place they may have derived their own alphabet.  So I started looking at the words and what others have found, got frustrated went to the botanical ( I have taken botany and a gardener), and got frustrated moved on to the figures.  So when I saw this portion of the page that was just what looked to me as the fallopian area, i started to look at the biological or what they call balneological nymphs,and I started to look at it in a different way.  A friend stopped over and I told her about the VM and showed her that snippet and asked what does this look like her first was Fallopian tubes, I was astounded because sometimes she’s not the sharpest tool in the tool box.  My first impressions of the nymphs is that they were like indicators like flow symbols where today we might use flow charts symbols and arrows.  I thought they might show “flow”?➡️

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Taken from website Muslimheritage.com.      
I think folks also copied from other books to gain knowledge, but the knowledge was out there.  Not every book is going to survive antiquity so we don’t know everything there was out there

Have you seen Ellie Velinska's blog? It might help you build upon your idea. Here is her composite.

Linda, I may have seen that blog.  I believe she has a north European origin of Sami’s?  Same person?  Thank you for that terrific pic that really added another great pic to this thread!!!!!

The one you are describing belongs to Claudette Cohen. I think she identifies this particular diagram as indicating water drumming.

You know while perusing so many websites I did see that mention of water drumming, but may have not read entire article.  I need to start a proper notebook.