VMs: Re: f68v3 ("Andromeda") and it's T-O map...?

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Jorge Stolfi wrote:
> 

> A third candidate is the small circle at the top right corner of
> f86r6, the nine-rosette diagram.  The style of this T-O map
> resembles that of the small circle at the lower left corner of the same diagram
> (f65v1), which however lacks the "T" division.

<HARP>

	All the stuff on the nine-rosette diagram looks
*organic* to me.  The 
connecting skeins look like lizard skin.  The diagrams
themselves share the
organic feel.  The "volcano" might be a seed pod
spraying seeds.  Has anyone
else had a similar impression?

</HARP>


> Just before the "blacksmith's island", the monks went through an
> stretch of exceedingly transparent water, in the midst of which was a
> huge white square column --- 1400 cubits wide, with its top "outside
> the atmosphere". The column was supporting a gigantic "mosquito net",
> made of a silvery substance, as hard as marble, which surrounded the
> tower and reached down to the water at about one mile from it. The
> meshes of the net were large enough for Brendan's ship to sail
> through. As they sailed around the tower, they could feel the heat of
> the Sun radiating through it (or from inside it?).  They sailed around
> the tower, but saw no opening --- except for a niche that contained
> a cup made from the tower's material, and a bowl made from the
> net's material, which they assumed was a "gift of God".
> I wonder whether any other rosette in the diagram can be matched
> to this episode?

	Sounds like an iceberg.  

Dennis
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