Pond creatures (f79v)

[Linda]

Linda,
While I cannot find any particular points of agreement with your approach to that particular image in the manuscript, you will be happy to know that you are not entirely alone in mentioning the Red Sea, Egypt, geographic matter and the Yemen.

It would be exhausting to list the posts in which I've gone into those things at length, but if you search 'Yemen' on voynichimagery you'll find about sixty posts.

I always feel a certain pleasure when I find that others have independently done work which I can rely on rather than 're-inventing the wheel'.  Hope you do too.

Just btw, the style in which those animals are drawn, and even their disposition around the lake, pond, or sea are closely comparable to traditional imagery from southern India.  Even the multi-tailed one.  Cheers.

Hi Diane,

Thanks for the imagery info. I take the entire quire to be talking about how all waters are mixed up in each other, and perhaps Indian imagery in the Red Sea is adding another aspect of that connectivity.

I did think Socotra was shown as the 'o' next to the point of the tub the third nymph is standing in, which I thought represented the current Somalian coast, as there is no pigment in it to indicate it is a water body. The 'o' seems to be drawn on top of the '8' glyph beside it, which is why I thought perhaps it was not a letter at all but part of the diagram. But this diagram and the one below it are harder to reconcile to my theory due to the blue pigments involved, so am looking into what they could be meant to portray. Also can't decide about what seems to be additions to that particular nymph's midriff. Have you touched on that in your writings?