(02-11-2016, 09:11 AM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.JKP: not impossible, since at least two of the other figures are holding a man-made object in one hand. Though then again, food also seems to be a theme.
I wonder if we are supposed to be seeing the same figure in an implied sequence. For example I just noticed that if you line them up in order, they perform a full turn:
I just started at the "sowing" one and went counter clockwise. You can read the image from right to left to go clockwise, and basically start anywhere. It is not very clear which perspective is meant, but this is how I see it: facing left, facing back, facing right, facing front.
I agree that food does seem to be a theme and it's not surprising. Food is a big part of religion, and abstinence from food a big part of religion as well. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim customs all revolve around food, especially bread, wine, and others. So do many ethnic traditions that are not explicitly religious. Regardless of a person's cultural heritage, it will be full of references to certain traditions and iconography based on food as appears to be the case here.