As I recall, there are a number of "spinner" stories in mythology.
Necessity is the spinner of fate. It's a workable interpretation, but is there anything more in the way of making a more solid identification? Could it be Arachne or Penelope or some other spinner and weaver, even Medea, who would be tie in with the Golden Fleen?
The Burgundians changed the mythic source for the Order of the Golden Fleece. They changed from the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece to the story of Gideon and the flees. That what I call Malleable. It seems fit in with all of the literary 'Christianization' of Classical mythology like the Ovide moralise and de Pizan's Epitre d'Othea that was happening in the C-14n times.
Here again there are connections to manuscripts from the Berry and Burgundy ducal libraries.
The thing about the VMs image is that it seems so obvious. If the "thing" really is a spindle. Then this is a reference to a mythical spinner. Is the other image, the combined image, Golden Fleece + Agnus Dei (1313) an important thread that needs to be followed to 'read" more from the VMs illustrations?
Necessity is the spinner of fate. It's a workable interpretation, but is there anything more in the way of making a more solid identification? Could it be Arachne or Penelope or some other spinner and weaver, even Medea, who would be tie in with the Golden Fleen?
The Burgundians changed the mythic source for the Order of the Golden Fleece. They changed from the tale of Jason and the Golden Fleece to the story of Gideon and the flees. That what I call Malleable. It seems fit in with all of the literary 'Christianization' of Classical mythology like the Ovide moralise and de Pizan's Epitre d'Othea that was happening in the C-14n times.
Here again there are connections to manuscripts from the Berry and Burgundy ducal libraries.
The thing about the VMs image is that it seems so obvious. If the "thing" really is a spindle. Then this is a reference to a mythical spinner. Is the other image, the combined image, Golden Fleece + Agnus Dei (1313) an important thread that needs to be followed to 'read" more from the VMs illustrations?