Re: VMs: RE: Voynich as Divine Comedy

[Elmar Vogt <elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

elillie@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> ...
> The "premise" that the VMs is related to Divine Comedy is very clearly
> laid out by folios such as this one:
>               http://www.voynich.com/folios/f86v4.jpg
>
> This is the folio that I identified as the Mystic White Rose, spoken of
> all through the end of the book Paradise. A simple enough image: that of
> God surrounded by nine rings representing the nine hierarchies of angels
> but at the same time an image that is unmistakably straight out of Divine
> Comedy.

It's the moon in the center of the VM illustration, not God. And it's not 
nine rings of angels, it's exactly four creatures (angels or not) in one of 
the rings.

> ... As to the
> gender of many of the other "nymphs", I believe that there was a recent
> discussion on the vms-list as to the possibility of a lot of retouching of
> the figures. I also put forward the idea in my own paper that the Voynich
> Illustrator drew most of the characters as "nymphs" because in his mind
> "they" were the ones portraying the characters to him.

Straightforward unanimous clues, huh? In the scientific community, your 
process would probably be called "tweaking".

Cheers,

	Elmar

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