Re: VMs: La Vecchia Religione

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dennis,

At 02:26 15/05/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> > For example, the spindle held in the
> > left hand of the damsel at the top left of f80v (also in f76v) has always
> > caught my attention.
>
>         Hm.  This is Gabriel's "yellow submarine"!  FWIW
> (which is zero), Levitov said this is the sistrum of
> Isis, and the damsel is Isis.  A sistrum is a musical
> instrument, a rattle.  I always thought it was a flower
> bulb.

Here's a 2002 email from GC on this subject:-

        From: GC [mailto:glenclaston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
        Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:47:56 -0600
        Subject: RE: What *is* that object those nymphs are holding?

        Do you mean the object that some say looks like a
        *flute*?  One of the instruments of physicke
        associated with bathing is a bladder for inserting
        herbal washes and medicines into the "matrix".
        This tool was called a "syringe".  I've been
        searching for a picture of this instrument, but
        all I've found to date is the description.  There
        is a second type that looks something like a
        child's wooden top that was used for inserting
        suppositories into the "foundament" (you guessed
        it).  Until I find a picture of the "syringe"
        bladder, I can't be certain, but it's a good
        probability.

>         Ah, I've got it!  The VMs is the Insidious Dr. Fu
> Manchu's secret master plan to conquer the world!  The
> herbal pages are new strains of opium to addict and
> enslave the people and add money to his Golden Hoard,
> the biological pages are the nymphs being bred and
> trained to seduce the people, the astrological pages
> compute the most propitious moment to strike, and the
> recipe pages outline the details and dates of the
> plan!  If we can only decipher it, we may yet be able
> to foil his dastardly plan!

IIRC, the Opium Wars happened because China refused to continue allowing 
semi-legal British bootleggers/pirates/traders to import opium from India. 
Dr Fu Manchu may well have unwittingly personified (in spirit) the opium 
resistance - erm... exactly *whose* plan was so dastardly? :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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