21-07-2016, 09:55 AM
(This post was last modified: 21-07-2016, 10:08 AM by Diane.
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Searcher - in my opinion you are wise to focus on Manilius rather than on Aratus.
I've dealt with the map in great detail - more than thirty posts, treating the emblems, the map's orientation, range, the difference between the original basic form and later additions (as chronological strata) and so forth.
Trouble is, I've now provided so much information that no-one has time to read it all.
D
voynichimagery.wordpress.com
Oh - btw - that image of the sinking sun (as I've explained in the series of posts) represents the sun sinking into the channel (i.e. as birthcanal), about to be reborn from the flower. I've called the flower a (notional) lotus. The idea of the sun's being reborn from a flower is not, of course, an idea native to Latin Europe, and appears no-where in medieval Christian imagery that I've ever seen. But then the map isn't a product of European thought in any sense - which may be one reason why my work isn't mentioned on sites compiled by persons who espouse an all-Latin Christian origin theory. Anyway, the point is that those terms are appropriate enough for the sense of that image.
The hour of entering the channel ..? could be.
I've dealt with the map in great detail - more than thirty posts, treating the emblems, the map's orientation, range, the difference between the original basic form and later additions (as chronological strata) and so forth.
Trouble is, I've now provided so much information that no-one has time to read it all.
D
voynichimagery.wordpress.com
Oh - btw - that image of the sinking sun (as I've explained in the series of posts) represents the sun sinking into the channel (i.e. as birthcanal), about to be reborn from the flower. I've called the flower a (notional) lotus. The idea of the sun's being reborn from a flower is not, of course, an idea native to Latin Europe, and appears no-where in medieval Christian imagery that I've ever seen. But then the map isn't a product of European thought in any sense - which may be one reason why my work isn't mentioned on sites compiled by persons who espouse an all-Latin Christian origin theory. Anyway, the point is that those terms are appropriate enough for the sense of that image.
The hour of entering the channel ..? could be.