Medieval sirens and mermaids

[Linda]

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?

You mean log man? The problem is that the quire needs to be taken as a whole. It is not a log, but a tube.  They probably did want you to think it was a log as an obfuscation, just like the erroneous mermaid impression is likely also intended. But i think tubes in quire 13 are all rivers. This one to me tells the story of the Persian gulf having previously been a river. It almost fits with where the river ran in reality. Re the so-called mermaid, if you look closely, the fish mouth is in the shape of various other buckets or wells that are found elsewhere in the quire, and these to me denote protected ports. The protected port in this case is in an area of the Red Sea that is thought to be one of the first settlements of modern humans, however it is now devoid of the many rivers that created the sheltered port and rift in the sea floor that the fish body resembles, plus the Anaximander fish mouth evolution of man story fits perfectly as well. I think it is discussing geography and history, prehistory to be exact.

It is interesting that this also ties back to the Rosettes correlation that Koen made, that i compare to an evolving ecumene. Anaximander's philosophies, (he is known as the first philosopher, and the first geographer), including a boundless universe, belongs to the newer ecumene, even though he lived in the time of the older one.

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