geoffreycaveney > 08-03-2019, 08:19 PM
Linda > 08-03-2019, 11:26 PM
geoffreycaveney > 09-03-2019, 04:00 AM
Linda > 09-03-2019, 08:36 PM
(09-03-2019, 04:00 AM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.The image highlights the obvious point that the page shows the moon in each of the 12 sections of the circular diagram, which may be related to medieval physicians considering the position of the moon in the Zodiac and its influence on different parts of the body.
Quote:I agree it's hard for any transcription to do justice to the glyphs themselves. It's just a convenience since it's so much easier to type anything in Latin letters, especially online. I've also recently become convinced that the "Cuva" transcription that Rene's site describes is actually probably a better and more accurate system than Eva. But most people who research the Voynich ms text are very used to Eva by now, so it's hard to break away from. In the Linear B research back in the day, the syllabary was so big that they had no choice but to use two-digit numbers to represent each character. Sometimes I wonder if that wouldn't be better for us too, to get us away from preconceived notions that may unconsciously arise from the habit of using Eva letters to express Voynich glyphs all the time.
Quote:Yes, there are many types of phrases with repeated related word stems. Other examples are "king of kings", "lord of lords", "host of hosts", in languages where "of" is not a separate word or where the possessive or genitive concept is expressed with a suffix or prefix. Deliberate alliteration and assonance are also very common literary devices, and especially so in certain languages and literary traditions such as Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac. (Scholars have noted that New Testament Greek lost some of the alliterative and assonant word play of some of Jesus's sayings in the original Aramaic, which the Syriac Peshitta version of the Bible in some cases captures better.)
Quote:I think a list of body parts could allow for more repetition because the same body part might appear under multiple Zodiac signs, especially if it's a rather generic body part like "chest" or "nervous system" or "digestive system", each of which effectively may occur under multiple signs in a system such as the one described in this link:
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Quote:Whereas a list of the 12 Zodiac signs or the 12 months seems much more rigid to me, with much less allowance for anything other than the 12 canonical names of the signs or months. With the body parts, it's just a doctor's practical guide, there can be abbreviations or generic labels for sections of the body or variations in terminology. Also, in some languages similar or nearby body parts such as hand/arm and foot/leg may have identical or closely related names, so that if a physician wrote both of them in one label, it would appear as two very similar words. Another example would be the repetition of words like "bile" or other terms related to the four "humors" which were an essential part of medieval medicine and also believed to have links to astrology and Zodiac signs as well.
Quote:As for the 12 separate illustrations of the moon in the diagram, I think the overwhelmingly most likely significance of the division of the circle into 12 parts has to be the 12 months or Zodiac signs. We find the same 12 sections on the preceding page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 1, and again on the following page You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. 1. The individual pages for each Zodiac sign follow shortly thereafter, from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. . The 12 sections of the circle simply have to represent the 12 signs or months. I can't see how they could be anything else.
Quote:What I do find curious about these 12 illustrations of the moon, is how the ones with their crescents colored red mostly alternate signs/months, except for two in a row on the right side that are not red, followed by two more in a row toward the bottom that are red. I would love to know what the significance of that pattern is!
Quote:Thank you for the pointer and the link to VViews' take on this page. I will have to take a closer look at his post and the discussion there!
Wladimir D > 11-03-2019, 01:51 PM
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