(15-08-2019, 05:46 PM)Common_Man wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The flower in close up looks like the guy was trying to draw 4 human figures.. But theres nothing more about the image that I'm noticing..
It seems like some kind of "placeholder-real" set of plant images were drawn interspersed with those having biblical imagery, to maybe hide them in plain sight (for god knows what), and this maybe one of them.. Maybe the guy was a Christian Missionary disguised as a traveling medicine seller ?
It has occurred to me many times that the person who created the VMS might be a missionary. Missionaries regularly created new alphabets to bring literacy to areas with no written language. And a number of famous missionaries were doctors. But parts of the VMS don't feel like a missionary approach to life (although many of the Jesuit missionaries were highly educated university graduates and university professors, so they probably didn't fit the stereotype of a missionary either).
René's suggestion of a traveling medicine man does feel possible, so maybe you are right Common Man. Maybe if we combine those two things in one person, we might end up with something unusual like the VMS.