MarcoP > 08-11-2017, 02:01 PM
(07-11-2017, 08:04 PM)Koen Gh. Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.My real objection is, as I wrote in my latest blog post, that the specific organs as they are evoked here, do not correspond at all to the way medievals thought about these organs. We recognize them because exposure to modern medical diagrams has engrained specific shapes in our mind of the carefully isolated, idealized organ.
I have not been able to find an early 15th century depiction of the ovaries or uterus yet in which the horizontal properties are emphasized like this. Or anything close to our modern image of these organs, which the VM structure resembles. If such an early 15thC (or earlier) image were found, it would provide some basis for the organic theory.
-JKP- > 08-11-2017, 02:10 PM
Wladimir D > 13-11-2017, 03:45 PM
(08-11-2017, 02:10 PM)-JKP- Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.I've often wondered if the "pipes" (which many have equated to the elements) represent the humors (bile, blood, etc.).
Western designations were usually black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm but I imagine there were other systems relating to bodily fluids (and there are five pipes, not four).
The stuff coming out of them looks more like elements (water, air, fire, earth, and possibly spirit/ether) but... maybe something biological was intended.
Wladimir D > 26-02-2019, 05:33 PM
Koen G > 17-06-2019, 07:16 PM
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Linda > 18-06-2019, 12:37 PM
nablator > 18-06-2019, 01:00 PM
(18-06-2019, 12:39 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(18-06-2019, 12:37 PM)Linda Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Do we know what the triple udder is in the pyramidion?
I think they may be flasks of some kind. Note the flat bottoms for standing.