[Blog Post] An Allegory of Salvation (Koen Gheuens & Cary Rapaport)

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Seacher:
The point of disagreement is not "can this be symbolical", because we both believe it is. Rather, the question is: what does it symbolize? Since this step involves a certain degree of interpretation, it is obviously not possible to convince everyone.

Oh, yes. For example, I disagree with your interpretation of the Rosettes "map" orientation. How will you explain that the right bottom sun (your West) is depicted along with the bunch of water and light, probably, while the left upper sun (your East) stands before a wall or a precipice? 
Obviously, the central rosette shows the orientation of the whole scheme, its top and bottom, but the orientation of the right top rosette is another - directed from the top to bottom, i. e., upsidedown in relation to the whole scheme, the same as the T/O map above it.  It is proven by the direction of the inscriptions, first of all. Also I think that the author uses the same style of the so-called T/O map (inverted) in all places of the MS, including the Ros, and it is also can proven with the direction of the inscriptions in it and in the nearest rosette. What do you think about this? Can the T/O map on the Ros be depicted in another way or mean something different from the rest? As I pointed out somehow, I think it is depicted in that direction and sequence as if it leads the way from something to something, as it was sometimes depicted on ancient and medieval plans or maps.