23-05-2026, 12:41 AM
(22-05-2026, 10:05 AM)Radim Dobeš wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Further found pictorial correspondences between the VM and Ethiopian liturgical art.
I must admit that the resemblances are as good as any that we have seen so far.
I am tickled by the idea that the VMS artist may have mis-interpreted halos as wide-brimmed hats (like he apparently mis-interpreted a rosary as a chain of big balls, and a urine sample flask as a perfume or elixir bottle).
Quote:Supports the Ethiopian trace in the VM
It is possible, of course, that the Scribe who drew the VMS pictures was drawing "inspiration" from an Ethiopian book, among all the other books that we have identified as highly probable sources of "inspiration".
But another possibility is that both the VMS artist and that Ethiopian artist drew inspiration from the same source book, possibly through multiple copying steps.
Can we find other books, preferably European, with that same sort of imagery: ladies in tubs up to the waist, with decoration on the tubs that resembles columns and arches?
Quote:connection with the Book of Enoch
The Book of Enoch was only one of the books in the Ethiopian Bible (and it was pre-Christanity, so it did not mention Mary and Jesus, saints, bishops, etc.)
[/quote]and further the trace leading to Athanasius Kircher.[/quote]
Kircher lived ~200 years after the VMS was (probably) written.
Quote:The correspondences are in the Astronomical part of the VM, which presents the Astronomical part of the Book of Enoch. (30 days a month)
Can you elaborate this part? I skimmed through that book some 25 years ago, and remember only that the astronomy part was quite childish. What was that calendar with 30-day months?
All the best, --stolfi


