Radim Dobeš > 20-05-2026, 04:59 PM
(20-05-2026, 02:50 PM)rikforto Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I might regret wading into this, but is the match here based on something besides the purported similarity of the art? Set aside if it is a good identification; I'm asking if there are confirmatory lines of evidence.
rikforto > 20-05-2026, 07:16 PM
Radim Dobeš > 21-05-2026, 06:33 AM
(20-05-2026, 07:16 PM)rikforto Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I have been reading this thread since it got going, and I've mostly seen comparisons between art? Can you link me to a post that's NOT about side-by-side pictures? I must have missed it...
rikforto > 21-05-2026, 12:19 PM
(20-05-2026, 02:50 PM)rikforto Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I might regret wading into this, but is the match here based on something besides the purported similarity of the art? Set aside if it is a good identification; I'm asking if there are confirmatory lines of evidence.
Rafal > 21-05-2026, 01:43 PM
Quote:is the match here based on something besides the purported similarity of the art?
Radim Dobeš > 22-05-2026, 07:33 AM
(21-05-2026, 01:43 PM)Rafal Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I suppose so. I believe this solution never gets into the proper analysis of the text.
Radim Dobes, correct me if I am wrong. Do you have any idea what language is VM written in? Is it some cipher? Can you read any words?
Radim Dobeš > 22-05-2026, 10:05 AM
Jorge_Stolfi > 23-05-2026, 12:41 AM
(22-05-2026, 10:05 AM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Further found pictorial correspondences between the VM and Ethiopian liturgical art.
Quote:Supports the Ethiopian trace in the VM
Quote:connection with the Book of Enoch
Quote:The correspondences are in the Astronomical part of the VM, which presents the Astronomical part of the Book of Enoch. (30 days a month)
Radim Dobeš > 23-05-2026, 06:58 AM
(23-05-2026, 12:41 AM)Jorge_Stolfi Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.and further the trace leading to Athanasius Kircher.[/quote](22-05-2026, 10:05 AM)Radim Dobeš Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Further found pictorial correspondences between the VM and Ethiopian liturgical art.
I must admit that the resemblances are as good as any that we have seen so far.
I am tickled by the idea that the VMS artist may have mis-interpreted halos as wide-brimmed hats (like he apparently mis-interpreted a rosary as a chain of big balls, and a urine sample flask as a perfume or elixir bottle).
Quote:Supports the Ethiopian trace in the VM
It is possible, of course, that the Scribe who drew the VMS pictures was drawing "inspiration" from an Ethiopian book, among all the other books that we have identified as highly probable sources of "inspiration".
But another possibility is that both the VMS artist and that Ethiopian artist drew inspiration from the same source book, possibly through multiple copying steps.
Can we find other books, preferably European, with that same sort of imagery: ladies in tubs up to the waist, with decoration on the tubs that resembles columns and arches?
Quote:connection with the Book of Enoch
The Book of Enoch was only one of the books in the Ethiopian Bible (and it was pre-Christanity, so it did not mention Mary and Jesus, saints, bishops, etc.)
Quote:The correspondences are in the Astronomical part of the VM, which presents the Astronomical part of the Book of Enoch. (30 days a month)
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