Re: VMs: RE: Voynich as Divine Comedy

[<elillie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello to the list.

Hi Elmar. You responded:

> 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.

1)Actually, it looks more like an eclipse to me. Dante couldn't look
directly at God in the Empyrean without going blind so the image has been
screened.2)If you count the rings, you'll see that there are 9 of them.
3)By reading my paper, you'd understand that the small lozenges that make
up the rings are souls and that this imagery is maintained all through the
Rosette/Paradise foldout.4)The four creatures that you count in one of the rings are talked about
quite plainly in Paradise: Canto 31, where Beatrice leaves Dante to return
to her place in the rose. Several other beings (the Virgin Mary, Eve and
St. Lucy) are mentioned at this point as having a specific position within
the rose as well.

>> ... 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".

Am I not allowed to offer explanations?

Until later,

Erni


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