Just some various thoughts on the subject.
I find the rainbow/flood connection Koen mentions intriguing.
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There are several instances in the MS that make me think flood, especially Quire 13 with its water bodies , and also Quire 14 with its imagery. At one point in my looking at the rosettes I thought that an alternative coastline was portrayed for the southwestern part of the Mediterranean, then upon researching whether this could ever have been the case, I found a scientific paper stating the same hypothesis. I'm not certain that means that is what is indicated, since by current standards it would have happened long before any known civilization could have recorded it, but it is certainly food for thought, at least it is for me. I have also seen glimpses of this idea in ancient cave drawings, although again this is my own interpretation.
I'm not sure that the last example VViews provided is a rainbow. In my own interpretation at this time, it depicts the Canal of the Pharaohs. However it would still be a flooding situation, albeit a planned one, so perhaps the connection is still there.
Perhaps the rainbows mean waterfalls are involved. I take the first of Vviews' diagram examples to mean runoff from a mountain created a lake, although I can't say I understand the significance of the green the nymph stands in which I would generally take to mean salty or mineralized water, nor the red bit, heat? The other bit I also take as mountain runoff but again I am unsure of the meaning of its shape and proximity to the other with the rainbow, perhaps other rivers or runoff from other mountain ranges also contributing to the newly created freshwater bodies, perhaps underground.
As to the double rainbow, I once read that all rainbows are thus, just not always readily visible as such. Could it stand as a metaphor for seeing beyond the easily seen? An indication of more beyond the known extents?
The religious connotations noted by Searcher I think could be involved insofar as they might be part of the culture of the copyist(s), if indeed it is a copy of older info, but most of what I see portrayed are things which would have occurred or been that way before the new testament came to be written. However, if indeed we are talking floods, this could appear as end times, which would also connect those two ideas of rainbow imagery.
The idea of locking the flood is also interesting, but I agree would be related to the timing of rainbow viewings to generally occur after the rain has stopped. However in the case of rainbows which are seen over waterfalls, these tend to be visible day after day, year after year, as long as the correct lighting is in play. You are not allowed to view links.
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