-JKP- > 02-03-2019, 06:34 AM
Quote:Morten St. George Wrote: On a couple of them I saw equal numbers of men and women conducting a religious or administrative meeting.
Linda > 02-03-2019, 07:16 AM
(01-03-2019, 06:23 AM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
It looks pretty obvious to me that this gal is holding an animal hide in her left hand so I don't know why it was claimed to be a purse, which, I believe, is a handbag often carried by women.
Quote:Note that the "purse" has red coloring, the color of a carcass as seen here:
Quote:Note that the "purse" has spots, just like a spotted jaguar as seen here:
Quote:Actually, this jaguar, like the hybrid mermaid above, is a hybrid jaguar with alligator head, but the "purse" is only the jaguar. Note that gal has her right hand raised in a sign of triumph over the predator animal: Got ya!
Quote:The gal holding the hide is standing in a bucket of blue water, signaling pure rainwater used for cleaning as seen here:
Quote:A critical step in making parchment (or clothing) is to extensively wash the hide in clean water.
Note also that the gals were well-trained in preparing animal hides:
The gal on the right has just been taught how to clean animal hides and she is dreaming of making herself a skirt.
The medieval instrument she is holding in her right hand was used to clean animal hides. She is holding it in the middle but to use it they would grab each handle at the ends and use the curved blade to scrape the hide.
Quote:I think it is an open and shut case: the "purse" is an animal hide. Moreover, there were no stores in the Louisiana swamps and hence no place for these gals to go shopping. They didn't even need clothing, then why a purse?
Morten St. George > 02-03-2019, 07:20 AM
(01-03-2019, 09:29 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Just a post or two ago, you said it was a 15th century manuscript, now you are back to positing it to be an earlier creation.
Linda > 02-03-2019, 07:23 AM
(01-03-2019, 11:45 AM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.[quote="Koen G" pid='24993' dateline='1551431461']
But what if she killed the jaguar hybrid to make it into a purse?
Quote:No, not a purse. She wanted to make a skirt as shown in the illustration I posted.
Morten St. George > 02-03-2019, 07:28 AM
(02-03-2019, 07:16 AM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The tool is a caliper for measuring and means the lake they are standing in is drawn to different perspective than the other nymphs on the page, or it may be a compass that says draw a windrose centred here.
Morten St. George > 02-03-2019, 07:34 AM
Linda > 02-03-2019, 07:45 AM
(02-03-2019, 03:18 AM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Now that JP, in a very recent post, has informed us of the source of that 6th century Sagittarius, I was able to check it out and the date is no longer an issue.
Quote:Malice is really not my thing. There is a problem with the Sagittarius claims. I've checked out JP's two-legged Sagittarius pages as well as his crossbow pages and nowhere do I spot a hat with tail that looks like the one worn by the VMS Sagittarius.
Quote:It's even gotten to the point where I suspect the VMS hat and tail might be pure fantasy, designed to cover up the tonsure of a medieval saint whose depiction with crossbow could have inspired the VMS Sagittarius. Most likely, tonsures were abhorrent to the Cathars. I think it would have been very nice of JP (who has access to thousands of medieval manuscripts compared to my none) to show us a medieval example of that hat and tail whether it be an archer or not, so as to link that style to a particular time and place, but unfortunately he has decided not to do that.
Linda > 02-03-2019, 07:50 AM
(02-03-2019, 03:31 AM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(01-03-2019, 10:32 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.If you are talking about the pond critter with a single row of spots, it looks more like a salamander or lizard than a cat.
Yes, but I very much doubt that a salamander could have brought down the marsh deer that we see lying dead in water.
Linda > 02-03-2019, 07:55 AM
(02-03-2019, 07:20 AM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(01-03-2019, 09:29 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Just a post or two ago, you said it was a 15th century manuscript, now you are back to positing it to be an earlier creation.
Some people are unable to comprehend that there is a distinction between authorship date and publication date.
(02-03-2019, 07:34 AM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(02-03-2019, 06:34 AM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.There's no evidence that it is a meeting. That's a huge assumption.
I think it depicts a gathering a deceased Cathars who were either born or died during the corresponding zodiac month.
Linda > 02-03-2019, 08:02 AM
(02-03-2019, 07:28 AM)Morten St. George Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(02-03-2019, 07:16 AM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The tool is a caliper for measuring and means the lake they are standing in is drawn to different perspective than the other nymphs on the page, or it may be a compass that says draw a windrose centred here.
I think it would be just wonderful if modern women had the courage and imagination that those Cathar women display. I am quite impressed with them.
Contemporary academia, I believe, classifies them as nymphs. These are not nymphs. Anyone who spends the time to carefully study their drawings will soon come to realize that the VMS depicts real women who, however briefly, lived in a real swamp.
And they are naked not because sexually-perverted Italian monks liked to draw nudes, as popularly believed, but because the weather at that moment was steamy hot and there was no one else around.