Searcher > 17-10-2019, 04:26 PM
Aga Tentakulus > 06-05-2020, 07:22 AM
Koen G > 06-05-2020, 08:06 AM
Koen G > 06-05-2020, 12:47 PM
(06-05-2020, 11:31 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Or can we say that ambiguity is in the eye of the beholder?Could be.. how can we tell the difference?
R. Sale > 06-05-2020, 05:28 PM
Aga Tentakulus > 06-05-2020, 06:33 PM
R. Sale > 06-05-2020, 08:24 PM
Linda > 07-05-2020, 09:35 PM
(06-05-2020, 12:47 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(06-05-2020, 11:31 AM)ReneZ Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Or can we say that ambiguity is in the eye of the beholder?Could be.. how can we tell the difference?
Fact is that many people have looked into mermaid imagery in relation to this figure, while there isn't a single mermaid in the VM. So there is ambiguity, wherever it may reside.
Linda > 07-05-2020, 10:08 PM
(06-05-2020, 08:24 PM)R. Sale Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Not a mermaid. Not a person with fins. Not a female Joana and the whale. But a fourth ambiguous alternative, a person who can transform from one form to another, like Melusine. This is an attempt to depict the transformation from one form to another.
Without the recovery of this 'mythical' / literary tradition, there would only be three potential interpretations.
The popularity of this tradition is coincident with the period of the VMs parchment, Carbon-14 dates.
It doesn't prove much on its own, but when taken in combination with other elements, many of which now seem to point in the same direction, the significance of a potential concatenation of provenance should be considered.
For the illustration in the previous post: I do not understand the nature of the "object in the water". What is it?