Re: *****SPAM***** VMs: Re: speculating on silkroad

[mesinik@xxxxxx]

Quoting Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> They are apsaras (a Sanskrit word), heavenly 
> nymphs.

yes, all this imaginary Mogao-team is a Buddhist one:
http://www.hfc-hersfeld.de/hfc/marken/44.html

> >btw, in Bibliothèque nationale de France 
> >there are drawings (Ink, on paper) of
> >Sogdian (Central Asian) female deities

> Hindu I think. Unlike the Voynich nymphs

any scans in sight of these?

> they have heavy, round breasts, wasp-like
> waists, and full bottoms. A very different
> kind of female ideal.

a bit like these from Kabul?
http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/teil2/pages/p1_69_04.htm
http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/teil1/pages/p2_69_06.htm
http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/teil1/pages/p2_69_02.htm
http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/teil1/pages/p2_69_01.htm
http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/teil1/pages/p2_69_04.htm


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