Re: VMs: f1r Red Weirdos

[Mart Vabar <mesinik@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Koontz John E wrote:
> For what it's worth, the upper left "red weirdo" on page one looks to me
> like a bird, or perhaps a dragon, in flight, wings above and head left.
> The lower left weirdo looks like a nest or other container in cutaway with
> something rising out of it - a serpent perhaps, or a plume of smoke.
> Neither looks like a Voynich glyph to me.  Perhaps they function as
> logographs.  I wonder if these two glyphs might involve a reference to the
> phoenix?


absolutely right
this could be one of the most visible Finno-Ugric connection in VMS

many northern Tatars (living hand-in-hand with Finno-Ugric people) - 
like these from Khasan - still
strongly use birds in their mytology ... if I am not messing things up,
a "flying snake" or strnge bird is some kind of totem/herldic sign
for the city of Khasan

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