Re: Nymph objects

[steve ekwall <ekwall2@xxxxxxxx>]

yuck :-/ 

but......

I read an article in the Smithsonian or BAR (Biblical Archeogoly
Review) just recently.. although I'm sure it was last year 2001)
issue on MAYAN an AZTEC glyphs showing a "definite MALE figure"
carved on a stone (royal Plumes on his headdress )and ~smiling~ while
a
helper introducing a "pipe" into HIS Foundament? The article went on
to
explain that Strong DRUGS of the region could by-pass the mouth/nose 
throat stomach route (losing concentration of Drug & avoiding
~vomiting~ etc).. Seems the Lower intestines can be just the route for
some happy drugs.
 I'll see if I can find the exact issue and page numbers etc.. It's
around here somewhere I think..

Best to you and yours
-=se=-
steve (it's simple and ancient?) ekwall
 
I don't recall a ~bladder~ though maybe a funnel? then helper would 
just blow it IN - yuck! :-/



 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:49:41 +0000
 From: Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: voynich@xxxxxxxx
 Subject: Re: Nymph objects
 
 
 >I did find a picture of the suppository tool.  It
 >looks like the old style child's top, a flat disk
 >with a hollow wooden dowel through the center.  I
 >assume it also had a plunger to push the
 >suppository through the hollow dowel once the
 >device was inserted in the "foundament".  I can
 >only guess, but my guess is that the disk was
 >attached to keep someone from inserting the device
 >too far up the "foundament".  Suppositories were
 >herb mixtures coated in greases and fats so they
 >would slide easily, and one would hope that the
 >device was also lubricated before insertion.  :-)
 >
 >I am only guessing again, but perhaps the bladder
 >also had a wooden disk attached, similar to the
 >picture in the Voynich, to keep one from inserting
 >the tip of the bladder too far.
 
 Hospital emergency rooms have long become used to patients presenting with 
 objects (both spectacular and mundane) inserted into such orifices beyond 
 the point of easy retrieval - vibrating mobile phones being only the most 
 recent example. :-/ 

-=se=->
Wow, THAT BEATS (in a male) an unbroken Light Bulb! I think> ouchEy?!
<-=se=-
 
 So - in this context, a flat restraining disk would seem a *particularly* 
 sensible addition. :-)