Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[MHTamdgidi_(Behrooz)]

Reading between the lines, one could also say, ‘I'll take anything that bites.’

This interpretation is interesting too. I am thinking that given the poetic nature of the message, it can be a both/and situation. She may mean she is fishing for love because her heart has been bitten by those who did not appreciate catching her before. Regarding “I will take anything that bites” I am not sure. The cup must have been a bridal present to her by her second husband, based on perhaps what he had heard from her regarding her first bitter marriage and love of plants and nature in her wine country.

I am still impressed by your “you are the goddess of your country” example. For me it does not matter whether it is based on actual text reading. I am impressed that it inspired you to make that point, visually, textually, or not. The spirit of this “poem” too is very revealing. Note, you did not say “I am the goddess of my (or your) country”. Rather, it means to be a teaching and inspirational advice to women to know their worth, not as appendages of men (or to prove they are manly), but beings at the heart of “mother nature” because they alone can appreciate what it takes to make human beings, with their flesh and blood, and heart and mind.

I mean, where did we all come from, if not for the labors and sacrifices of our mothers in a way that no man can claim to endure?

I strongly believe that the author (who I believe to be Margaret Maultasch) had Fransiscan Christian leanings, seeing spirituality not as an institution but built into every little detail of nature. She was deeply spiritual, but did not think well of the church as an institution. That is why she hid her Christianity in the very fabric of her art. No wonder her manuscript was found and kept in a Franciscan archive.

I have learned many new things about the Voynich manuscript that will share, as the identification of the author of the manuscript, for me, has opened a new window of explaining many puzzles and enigmas about the text in a way that could not be explained otherwise.