Hi Koen,
Thanks for your reply. I definitely see layers of meaning in the diagrams, even if it was not meant to portray what I have interpreted from it.
I could see how Scylla could being involved since the myth involves seafaring rock related dangers, but the Sicily aspect of the story wouldn't fit my interpretation. However perhaps that location identification is wrong since the connection to Sicily comes from Thrinacia being related to threes, perhaps it is the three sets of islands in a triangle in the Red Sea instead of a triangular island in the Mediterranean? Could that connect back to the Triangulum idea you mentioned? Ethiopia and Egypt do fit better with my suggested portrayal, although to me that area is described on other pages and this one seems to me to concentrate mostly on areas to the east.
Regarding the other locations you noted, unfortunately they don't match mine, as I see this page as describing travel starting from northwestern India, being the Himalayas and the Indus river portrayed in and under the "umbrella" and I believe the first two nymphs are indicating the Gulfs of Kutch and Khambhat. In this photo You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the Indus looks a lot like the waterfall in the diagram including being off to the side of the "umbrella" and in closeness of overall shape (buttocks?). Re the ring, I think it is a directional aide, in that, if you draw a line in the direction to which the jewel it is pointing (i.e. keeping the gulf in sight as you are leaving and then keep that line going forward, as indicated by the nymph pointing in the opposite direction) then that line will bring you to the Gulf of Aden, then on to the Red Sea. Scylax of Caryanda evidently took such a trip in 518BC from the Kabul River to the Gulf of Suez, and reported to Darius 30 months later.
Too bad our interpretations don't gel. Why do you feel the ring nymph is indicating Oxyrhynchus, and why Canopus or Faiyum? Star related? [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus][/url]
It came about from following the locations I see portrayed. You would pass Yemen if you were coming from India towards Egypt via the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. I didn't see exact reference to Yemen, though, it is only that they now own the islands of which I was speaking.
Thanks for your reply. I definitely see layers of meaning in the diagrams, even if it was not meant to portray what I have interpreted from it.
I could see how Scylla could being involved since the myth involves seafaring rock related dangers, but the Sicily aspect of the story wouldn't fit my interpretation. However perhaps that location identification is wrong since the connection to Sicily comes from Thrinacia being related to threes, perhaps it is the three sets of islands in a triangle in the Red Sea instead of a triangular island in the Mediterranean? Could that connect back to the Triangulum idea you mentioned? Ethiopia and Egypt do fit better with my suggested portrayal, although to me that area is described on other pages and this one seems to me to concentrate mostly on areas to the east.
Regarding the other locations you noted, unfortunately they don't match mine, as I see this page as describing travel starting from northwestern India, being the Himalayas and the Indus river portrayed in and under the "umbrella" and I believe the first two nymphs are indicating the Gulfs of Kutch and Khambhat. In this photo You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the Indus looks a lot like the waterfall in the diagram including being off to the side of the "umbrella" and in closeness of overall shape (buttocks?). Re the ring, I think it is a directional aide, in that, if you draw a line in the direction to which the jewel it is pointing (i.e. keeping the gulf in sight as you are leaving and then keep that line going forward, as indicated by the nymph pointing in the opposite direction) then that line will bring you to the Gulf of Aden, then on to the Red Sea. Scylax of Caryanda evidently took such a trip in 518BC from the Kabul River to the Gulf of Suez, and reported to Darius 30 months later.
Too bad our interpretations don't gel. Why do you feel the ring nymph is indicating Oxyrhynchus, and why Canopus or Faiyum? Star related? [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus][/url]
(01-07-2016, 06:17 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.By the way, Linda. Not many people will go as far as Yemen to explain Voynich imagery. I wonder how you came to consider this rather specific faraway location?
It came about from following the locations I see portrayed. You would pass Yemen if you were coming from India towards Egypt via the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. I didn't see exact reference to Yemen, though, it is only that they now own the islands of which I was speaking.