21-10-2025, 12:50 AM
(20-10-2025, 09:03 PM)Rafal wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So would would you say about a theory that it's not about bathing at all but about eating and digestion? The pipes and pools would be stomach, intestines, spleen etc. How do you think? Possible or very improbable?
More than probable... I thought that "everyone" agreed that many of the "pipes and tubs" in this section are barely disguised organs of the human body. It seems quite possible that all of them are.
The question that is still open is whether they are just organs in disguise, or they are actually pipes and tubs that are built or drawn in the shape of the organs that the waters are supposed to be good for.
As for the merry ladies, since they have names, they probably represent definite persons, things, or abstract concepts (rather than being just decoration, like the ladies that one sees in other astrological manuscripts of the time). There are many possibilities... Like stars that influence that organ, remedies or gods that are good for it, famous people that the Author cured of that organ's disease, the Scribe's favorite female characters from Greek mythology, un catalogo egli è che o fatt'io delle belle che amò il padron mio... who knows...
Unless the ladies are just decoration, and the labels refer to the specific pipes and tubs that they are sitting on, wading in, pointing to...
All the best, --stolfi