10-09-2016, 01:56 PM
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Koen,
Talking about Greek influence and hybrid Greek influences, I thought a pair of my old posts might interest you.
The first relates to the calendar's feline which you, Sam G, Linda and I see as closest in style to those pictured across a line from Delos to both North Africa and Syria.
The second looks more at that 'red splash' on the Voynich feline's leg, one which I do not believe was accidental but what is known as an apotropaic mark: meant to ward off harm by damaging the image of a potentially dangerous thing.
In the second post I show other examples of this, notably a manuscript from the 10thC, very probably influenced by pre-Christian Hungary, in which the old eastern Greek custom of cutting of the head of the bad snake (not the agatha daimon), and replacing it with another red splash.
Interestingly, a passage recently noted in another post to this forum, treating later European images of the universe (but not particularly relevant to the Voynich map), use the same passage from Manilius that I think informs the image from the Ottonian manuscript.
Certainly another instance of hybrid culture, descended from the Greek, anyway.
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Talking about Greek influence and hybrid Greek influences, I thought a pair of my old posts might interest you.
The first relates to the calendar's feline which you, Sam G, Linda and I see as closest in style to those pictured across a line from Delos to both North Africa and Syria.
The second looks more at that 'red splash' on the Voynich feline's leg, one which I do not believe was accidental but what is known as an apotropaic mark: meant to ward off harm by damaging the image of a potentially dangerous thing.
In the second post I show other examples of this, notably a manuscript from the 10thC, very probably influenced by pre-Christian Hungary, in which the old eastern Greek custom of cutting of the head of the bad snake (not the agatha daimon), and replacing it with another red splash.
Interestingly, a passage recently noted in another post to this forum, treating later European images of the universe (but not particularly relevant to the Voynich map), use the same passage from Manilius that I think informs the image from the Ottonian manuscript.
Certainly another instance of hybrid culture, descended from the Greek, anyway.
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