21-02-2026, 05:18 PM
(21-02-2026, 12:47 PM)Bernd wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.tavie will ban us all for going offtopic, but what strikes me even more than the apparent lack of religious imagery is the utter lack of violence. There are no fights, no weapons, no demons devouring sinners - it is all very peaceful.
Much of this is a consequence of the way handheld items function in Q13: like attributes instead of tools. They hold nothing that suggests any meaningful interaction with each other or the world.
Regarding violence, I would say there are a few nymph pairs in Q13 that show acts of violence. It's all on f80, recto and verso.
First, the woman with her hands crossed behind her back: this is an unnatural pose and the artist goes out of their way to show us the crossed hands. The man pushes her forward in what I can only read as a captor/captive dynamic. The other clip is from the verso, where one person is standing over another one who's lying on her back in a state that's not exactly relaxed, grabbing her by the hair. I guarantee that this would have been read as an act of violence.
When I talked about these years ago, it was said that the woman is just leading her boyfriend to the pool and that the one nymph is helping the other one make a pony tail. This made me lose all hope in ever collectively understanding Voynich imagery.