Quote:However, I have to admit that I can't explain why each rosette looks the way it does, my idea would just explain the general layout and the two circles at top right and bottom left.
There's been a paper by Wastl & Feger (not the one Juergen refers to above, but I think the preceding one) analysing the Rosettes page as "mappa mundi" with additional circles for four elements, check it.
Quote:Note the three tiny connected circles in the one at bottom left, I think these could be the "three lights".
Yes that's a strange image, it always reminds me of the YouTube share symbol. If I remember correctly, someone suggested that it might represent a compass.
Quote:Anton, you refer to the pathways linking rosettes to different continents, correct?
If the T-O map refers to orientation, then it's possible the suns also are synchronised with the T-O map. In which case, the bottom two continents are reversed.
The top sun would be the dawn in the East (Asia is orientated ontop for this reason, long story short). But if the sun sets in the west, ie over western Europe, then the bottom two continents are reversed. Not that this can be proven, unless someone has an African origin for the book!
Yes, there are three pathways, one is clearly from the "Europe" sector of the T-O map, and it links to what is supposed to be Europe. The other is from the "Asia" sector of the T-O map, but where it links to it is not easy to trace. The third one is from what looks kinda watershed between all three sectors of the T-O map, and it's also not clear where it links to.
So based on the identification of Europe and supposing that the T-O map does not revert Europe and Africa (for which curios behavior there is at least one example in known manuscripts), then we have Africa counter-clockwise to Europe, and one of the two remaining corner circles (or both) stand for Asia.
In this layout I see no problems with the Sun. Africa = West, Asia = East, Europe = North, the fourth continent (= South) might be Antipodes (as Wastl & Feger suggested, although I remember that we did not agree on which one of the two is Antipodes, but, judging by the Sun, Antipodes should be the one immediately counter-clockwise from Africa)
Quote:Actually, I've always been intrigued You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. Is it a giant humanoid with open mouth or is it a tower?
Most probably, a volcano (it was SantaColoma's suggestion).