Koen G > 20-08-2019, 10:52 PM
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arca_libraria > 20-08-2019, 11:06 PM
(18-08-2019, 07:44 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I guess I found the nails?
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Root is a feline brandishing its claws. In Germanic languages, nail/nagel... can mean both fingernails and metal spikes.
Koen G > 20-08-2019, 11:38 PM
arca_libraria > 21-08-2019, 12:08 AM
(20-08-2019, 11:38 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Lions are ambiguous beasts. They can stand for courage and kingship, but also for violence and danger. Lions are killers.
The lion of Judah became a symbol of Israel, and lions are the most common animal in medieval Jewish art.
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So if we've got nails arranged like the Cross, and underneath a lion menacingly showing its claw, perhaps the allusion is to those of the tribe of Judah who (in the medieval mind) were the ones who put Jesus on the cross?
arca_libraria > 21-08-2019, 12:42 AM
(20-08-2019, 10:59 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.arca, you picked a good one to mention ( f44r) because usually plant leaves of that length and shape don't point up like that (unless the plant has been flattened for drying, which is what I thought might have happened).
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davidjackson > 21-08-2019, 01:06 PM
Monica Yokubinas > 22-08-2019, 12:43 AM
(21-08-2019, 01:06 PM)davidjackson Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What I like about You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. is the arrangement of the text - it certainly looks as if there are two separate blocks of text there, one for the flower and another for the root.
arca_libraria > 25-08-2019, 08:55 PM
(09-08-2019, 08:46 AM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Thanks, arca! Those are quite interesting.
Looking through Add MS 88929, I found You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. quite revealing. I was suspecting those huge flowers with wide open tops referred to events in the sky. I thought You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. meant the eclipse, but this looks better, it's the wound held by angels in a cloudy frame. Ascension?
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Koen G > 25-08-2019, 09:27 PM