MarcoP > 23-04-2017, 12:18 PM
-JKP- > 23-04-2017, 06:41 PM
MarcoP > 24-04-2017, 05:46 PM
(23-04-2017, 06:41 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Individually, these might seem like coincidences, but stacked up one after the other, there certainly is a resemblance.
The uterus pictures are especially interesting. I had never thought to associate the rounded arcs over the nymphs' heads with the inside of a uterus, even though some of the bottom tubes looked a bit like the birth canal. Put alongside these pictures, however, the contours are very similar.
Emma May Smith > 24-04-2017, 06:51 PM
(24-04-2017, 05:46 PM)MarcoP Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Marraccini referred to menstruation in her recent Oxford speech and I am sure the subject of woman fertility has been often mentioned in relation with the balneological section, as well as the "nymphs in cylinder" in the first zodiac wheels. I will have to read more of what others have written on the subject.
davidjackson > 24-04-2017, 08:29 PM
ReneZ > 25-04-2017, 08:23 AM
(24-04-2017, 06:51 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hey, this was my answer in the "State of the Voynich 2016" thread concerning the topic of quire 13: "Bathing, maybe with a focus on women's reproductive health." I want priority!
Quote:It seems strange to me, also, that so many students have become obsessively preoccupied with gynecological or sexual interpretations of the text.
Quote:Strong's efforts produced text representing "an extremely candid discussion of woman's ailments and practical matters of the conjugal bed - you might call it a sixteenth century equivalent of the Kinsey Report". He identified an herbal contraceptive among its recipes, and ran a laboratory experiment to test the effectiveness of the prescription for that purpose."
MarcoP > 25-04-2017, 09:16 AM
(24-04-2017, 08:29 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Image A is clearly a drain hole from the tank, which connects to a pipe on the reverse folio - I wrote it up somewhere on the forum. The two sides are connected by the flow of water.
Of course, what the water represents is anyone's guess.
(24-04-2017, 07:44 PM)bi3mw Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Does the image [A] show an urinal ( matula ) ? I cannot find such a representation anywhere else. I think the usual representation looks like You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
MarcoP > 25-04-2017, 09:46 AM
(25-04-2017, 08:23 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(24-04-2017, 06:51 PM)Emma May Smith Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Hey, this was my answer in the "State of the Voynich 2016" thread concerning the topic of quire 13: "Bathing, maybe with a focus on women's reproductive health." I want priority!
Are you sure?
Another (possibly) young woman wrote the following, 40 years ago:
Quote:It seems strange to me, also, that so many students have become obsessively preoccupied with gynecological or sexual interpretations of the text.
(D'Imperio, p.36).
Mary D` Imperio Wrote:It seems strange to me, also, that so many students have become obsessively preoccupied with gynecological or sexual interpretations of the text. The presence of the scattering of quite unexceptionable matronly little nude figures on a small proportion of folios seems to me an entirely insufficient justification for this obsession.
ReneZ > 25-04-2017, 10:05 AM