(9 hours ago)Legit Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. (9 hours ago)proto57 Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My cartoon has absolutely nothing to do with why I think Wilfrid drew the armadillo the way he did. For that, I would say it was simply his loose interpretation of how his imagined 17th century artist might draw one, based on his understanding of what a real one looked like, perhaps, combined with how the Gesner armadillo was drawn. That's it.
How does the cosmos and the rain under the creature fit in this theory?
In my theory? If that is what you mean, then my feeling is that it goes like this: Basically, Voynich (or his forger), threw in a whole lot of everything, from several hundred years of scientific, astrological, astronomical, botanical (sort of), a little alchemical, and so on, iconography, using images of optical devices, sort of kind of zodiac constellations, a bit of the anatomical (probably from Gray's), some sort of kind of constellations like the Pleiades, a nebula-like thing to imply great astronomical abilities, microscopic cells and diatoms, and plants invented from some real plant parts combined with fantastical ones, oh and magic circles, and skrying and shewstones... and I could go on for pages.
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He used a hodgepodge of influences from dozens of books and pamphlets and real items... changed most of them just a bit so they would not "quite be" that item, all to give a "Kinda-sorta looks like an interesting and colorful old book that will captivate and mystify the masses and rich collectors alike". Sort of like the fake "snake man", the "Cardiff Giant" type thing... and so on...
So back to your question, "How does the cosmos and the rain under the creature fit in this theory?". Perfectly. It's just there, because he thought it looked kinda cool and old and "grimore-like". And the whole book does look kinda cool and grimore-like, and also, makes absolutely zero sense because You are not allowed to view links.
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Login to view. It was meant to mystify, to stun you, fool you, and remain a mystery. And, it is a giant mess, which is taken far too seriously, much more seriously than it deserves. And taking whatever symbolism the cosmos and the rain... if that is even what they were taken from, in the first place, is I think too deep a question. This is an alphabet soup thrown together in a pot.
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