Not a mermaid. Not a person with fins. Not a female Joana and the whale. But a fourth ambiguous alternative, a person who can transform from one form to another, like Melusine. This is an attempt to depict the transformation from one form to another.
Without the recovery of this 'mythical' / literary tradition, there would only be three potential interpretations.
The popularity of this tradition is coincident with the period of the VMs parchment, Carbon-14 dates.
It doesn't prove much on its own, but when taken in combination with other elements, many of which now seem to point in the same direction, the significance of a potential concatenation of provenance should be considered.
For the illustration in the previous post: I do not understand the nature of the "object in the water". What is it?
Without the recovery of this 'mythical' / literary tradition, there would only be three potential interpretations.
The popularity of this tradition is coincident with the period of the VMs parchment, Carbon-14 dates.
It doesn't prove much on its own, but when taken in combination with other elements, many of which now seem to point in the same direction, the significance of a potential concatenation of provenance should be considered.
For the illustration in the previous post: I do not understand the nature of the "object in the water". What is it?