30-11-2016, 05:15 PM
Well it indeed seems that it is quite difficult to know what the poet meant, if he meant anything at all and understood what he is writing about. It looks like we will hardly advance forward with this verse. If the subject of the verse could be found somewhere in prose - that could help.
The problem with the Voynich pipes remains though - the number of 28 differs from the number of 24. So if there is a connection at all, this could mean at least two scenarios:
1) the Voynich author grabbed the Bedean visual pattern of the 24-pointed circumference not understanding why the number is 24, and blindly adopted it for his own needs of 28.
2) both the Bedean and the Voynichese patterns ascend to the same visual proto-pattern (maybe of Arabic origin or otherwise). St. Bede (or his Christian predecessor) just adopted it for the 24-pointed circumference and invented the poetic allegory about Christ's cross and all that, while the origin may have been not 24-pointed.
The problem with the Voynich pipes remains though - the number of 28 differs from the number of 24. So if there is a connection at all, this could mean at least two scenarios:
1) the Voynich author grabbed the Bedean visual pattern of the 24-pointed circumference not understanding why the number is 24, and blindly adopted it for his own needs of 28.
2) both the Bedean and the Voynichese patterns ascend to the same visual proto-pattern (maybe of Arabic origin or otherwise). St. Bede (or his Christian predecessor) just adopted it for the 24-pointed circumference and invented the poetic allegory about Christ's cross and all that, while the origin may have been not 24-pointed.