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  anejati > 4 hours ago

  In You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. the characters in the middle ring repeat in a 4x17 pattern, and there are also 4 figures inside the circle. Going around the circle, the faces alternate towards and away from the viewer (towards-away-towards-away). The faces looking away have two outstretched hands and the faces looking towards have one raised hand which appears to be pointing at something.
  
  It seems like an obvious pattern but I haven't seen any discussion on this. Is there any idea on the alternating towards-away faces? Do we know what this is supposed to symbolize? Are there parallels in other medieval scripts?
  
  One interpretation is that the figures are supposed to represent four people in a circle in 3d (imagine children playing a game), but then it should have been towards-towards-away-away, not towards-away-towards-away.

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  rikforto > 4 hours ago

  I've long suspected they are the cardinal winds and the Archangels associated with them, but this all goes to the incredible difficulty of interpreting the Voynich drawings

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  Jorge_Stolfi > 1 hour ago

  (4 hours ago)anejati Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.there are also 4 figures inside the circle. Going around the circle, the faces alternate towards and away from the viewer (towards-away-towards-away). The faces looking away have two outstretched hands and the faces looking towards have one raised hand which appears to be pointing at something.

  
  I have no ideas about the meaning, but on f86v4 there is a somewhat similar arrangement: four figures in a circle, two facing the reader, one facing away from the reader, one turned to one side, all four holding an object on each hand.
  
  All the best, --stolfi

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  Bluetoes101 > 1 hour ago

  (1 hour ago)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have no ideas about the meaning, but on f86v4 there is a somewhat similar arrangement: four figures in a circle, two facing the reader, one facing away from the reader, one turned to one side, all four holding an object on each hand.
  
  All the best, --stolfi

  
  I'd never actually connected these in my head for whatever reason. 
  Its remarkable how many similarities there are with poses (north, not so much) 
  
     
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