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• Could balneology section be actually gastric section?

  Rafal > 8 hours ago

  We all have seen it - strange pipes and women bathing in green water in weird pools:
  
  
  
  I don't know if it was already discussed but I haven't seen such a discussion.
  
  So would would you say about a theory that it's not about bathing at all but about eating and digestion?
  
  The pipes and pools would be stomach, intestines, spleen etc.
  The green colour makes also sense then. If you vomit, then it's often kind of green   so the artist could imagine the stomach as full of green liquid.
  
  And women? Well, that's the hardest part to explain. I think we can exclude that the author was a cannibal   So maybe they symbolically represent "components" of the food we eat? Of course the author didn't know about proteins, sugars or carbohydrates so he could think of four elements (earth, air, fire, water) or somthing similar. Or maybe some cosmic forces ruling your digestion?
  
  By the way, if you were a kid in the 80s you may recall this series where everything inside a human body was represented as busy little men. Could VM author do something similar?
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  How do you think? Possible or very improbable?

• RE: Could balneology section be actually gastric section?

  rikforto > 7 hours ago

  (8 hours ago)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.And women? Well, that's the hardest part to explain. I think we can exclude that the author was a cannibal   

  
  Given how little we know about the manuscript, I do not think we can so confidently exclude the possibility that the author was a cannibal!
  
  I am only mostly joking here
  
  As to your more serious point, I have passingly entertained the idea it is digestive, but I can't say I feel that or any other interpretation of the balenological section seems to be an unambiguous fit.

• RE: Could balneology section be actually gastric section?

  Ruby Novacna > 7 hours ago

  (8 hours ago)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.We all have seen it - strange pipes and women bathing in green water in weird pools:
  I don't know if it was already discussed but I haven't seen such a discussion.
  So would would you say about a theory that it's not about bathing at all but about eating and digestion?
  How do you think? Possible or very improbable?

  
  If you do a quick Google search, I'm sure you'll find all the old suggestions, including anatomy.
  That should apply to this forum as well.

• RE: Could balneology section be actually gastric section?

  Jorge_Stolfi > 4 hours ago

  (8 hours ago)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So would would you say about a theory that it's not about bathing at all but about eating and digestion?  The pipes and pools would be stomach, intestines, spleen etc. How do you think? Possible or very improbable?

  
  More than probable... I thought that "everyone" agreed that many of the "pipes and tubs" in this section are barely disguised organs of the human body.  It seems quite possible that all of them are.
  
  The question that is still open is whether they are just organs in disguise, or they are actually pipes and tubs that are built or drawn in the shape of the organs that the waters are supposed to be good for.
  
  As for the merry ladies, since they have names, they probably represent definite persons, things, or abstract concepts (rather than being just decoration, like the ladies that one sees in other astrological manuscripts of the time). There are many possibilities... Like stars that influence that organ, remedies or gods that are good for it, famous people that the Author cured of that organ's disease, the Scribe's favorite female characters from Greek mythology, un catalogo egli è che o fatt'io delle belle che amò il padron mio... who knows...
  
  Unless the ladies are just decoration, and the labels refer to the specific pipes and tubs that they are sitting on, wading in, pointing to...
  
  All the best, --stolfi
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