[split] Log man

[RobGea]

A repurposed yoke is an excellent candidate.
There seem to be several types of yoke, admittedly this image is from modern day Myanmar.
But with a little light carpentry this withers yoke would fit the bill.
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[Aga Tentakulus]

                       
Just a yoke. It's a common household item and comes in 100 different shapes. From a 2- or 4-hole rod to elaborate carvings.
Today you can still see them as wall decoration or as a lamp and you can buy them on E-Bay.
I would not have thought that it is so little known.

These things belong together.
Yoke and plow.
History:
From 1600, horses were used more and more, and crop yields tripled.

Agricultural Revolution
From 1 cow and 3 goats ratio became 3 cows and 1 goat.

[Linda]

I like the central example. Perhaps it is a yoke, but what would it mean? Maybe an indication that agriculture was involved in the area? That one was found ?

[Aga Tentakulus]

With this detail one can certainly not draw conclusions about the VM origin.
It occurs everywhere before Europe, Asia, Africa. In the lowlands as well as in the Alps.
It's really only a matter of deciphering the text, if the determination of the images is correct.
This shows a possible hit and shows a second step. 
It's enough when it's dark, you don't have to be blindfolded.

[Aga Tentakulus]

100 years of VM research is enough. I do not have time for another 100 years.

It is time to reassess a lot of things. I no longer believe what was written 50 years ago by self-styled professors.

[Aga Tentakulus]

   

If you believe everything that is explained to you, the VM manuscript is a cookbook.

Page f1 describes a rabbit stew.
I see a cooking pot where steaming. Possibly a one-star menu.
We see the cook. For the rabbit I need another hunter. It was quickly organized. He also knows where the rabbit is. I don't need to explain about the vegetables.
And the food group has already signed up.

Next week we have the liver from page 116, which is a real curse when you try it.

Thank you, I'll say goodbye to the Voynich cooking studio.
See you next week.

[Koen G]

If it's a yoke then I would say the drawing is almost certainly allegorical, given the strong symbolic connotations of the object. If this man put a yoke on the sea, it means he "tamed" it or enslaved it, put it in servitude.

The Bible alone is full of examples of expressions about yokes. "To put the yoke upon...", "to break one's yoke", "to be under the yoke of...";

If it's a yoke, then it is a broken one, so maybe the association is liberation. This might then explain the man's face, he is at peace because his yoke was torn off.

[Aga Tentakulus]

        It is simply important to find objects in the right environment.

Both examples have something to do with tension. But only one is medical. 

[R. Sale]

Maybe putting the yoke in the creek is the Swiss version of trying to harness the tides.

[Aga Tentakulus]

   

Didn't you know that in Switzerland we drive water-ski like this.

The two nails are to brake if the cow runs too fast.

What do you think it is?