19-05-2016, 03:13 PM
I have revisited this story in my latest post, incorporating the rest of the folio and f76v, which, judging by the narrative flow, I think originally was to the left of this folio. The resulting story line looks like this:
![[Image: untitled-1.jpg?w=616]](https://herculeaf.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/untitled-1.jpg?w=616)
The mistake I made in my first analysis was to move immediately to the left starting in the top right corner, while actually I had to follow the river down first, only to then continue towards the left and onto the previous page.
The scene I marked with a (rather ugly) "2" here, depicts the actual raping. The king has grown a pair of boobs, but this can be explained as a result of copyists re-interpreting sexless males. I have provided similar examples of this from other manuscripts (remember hercules vaginatus). Especially material that was later copied from Greco-Roman sources suffers from this problem, which suits the timeline I have in mind for the Voynich material.
One more thing I will include here already:
![[Image: thread.jpg?w=276&h=618]](https://herculeaf.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/thread.jpg?w=276&h=618)
The top two figures are Philomela and Tereus (reinterpreted as a woman) engaged in the struggle of sexual assault. This is the moment when Philomela, on the left, her hair disheveled, stands up and declares that she will tell everybody about what happened. Tereus-now-Terea on the right is seen in shock, as he realizes his wife will find out about the crime he committed upon her sister. The story then flows on to the left, where we see Philomela being imprisoned and mutilated (JKP already remarked the similarity between this scene and the one from Ovid).
Next, we come to the image in the bottom of the picture, below the rape scene. Rene correctly remarked that exactly this critical scene was missing from my first analysis. We see Philomela picking up the thread of the story - the thread of her fate - and changing it into a wavy fabric as it flows across her hand. To make it even more obvious, she directs her gaze upward, filled with horror but also determination, towards the previous scene, where she vows to do exactly this: to make Tereus' crimes known to the world.
![[Image: philo.jpg?w=616]](https://herculeaf.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/philo.jpg?w=616)
This is my most image-heavy post so far, so once again I will ask to read the full analysis on my blog. I have done my best to keep it fluently readable, and focus on the parts that weren't included in previous posts:
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The mistake I made in my first analysis was to move immediately to the left starting in the top right corner, while actually I had to follow the river down first, only to then continue towards the left and onto the previous page.
The scene I marked with a (rather ugly) "2" here, depicts the actual raping. The king has grown a pair of boobs, but this can be explained as a result of copyists re-interpreting sexless males. I have provided similar examples of this from other manuscripts (remember hercules vaginatus). Especially material that was later copied from Greco-Roman sources suffers from this problem, which suits the timeline I have in mind for the Voynich material.
One more thing I will include here already:
The top two figures are Philomela and Tereus (reinterpreted as a woman) engaged in the struggle of sexual assault. This is the moment when Philomela, on the left, her hair disheveled, stands up and declares that she will tell everybody about what happened. Tereus-now-Terea on the right is seen in shock, as he realizes his wife will find out about the crime he committed upon her sister. The story then flows on to the left, where we see Philomela being imprisoned and mutilated (JKP already remarked the similarity between this scene and the one from Ovid).
Next, we come to the image in the bottom of the picture, below the rape scene. Rene correctly remarked that exactly this critical scene was missing from my first analysis. We see Philomela picking up the thread of the story - the thread of her fate - and changing it into a wavy fabric as it flows across her hand. To make it even more obvious, she directs her gaze upward, filled with horror but also determination, towards the previous scene, where she vows to do exactly this: to make Tereus' crimes known to the world.
This is my most image-heavy post so far, so once again I will ask to read the full analysis on my blog. I have done my best to keep it fluently readable, and focus on the parts that weren't included in previous posts:
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