22-01-2018, 04:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 23-01-2018, 12:21 AM by Morten St. George.)
(31-10-2017, 04:15 PM)Anton wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Yes, the advantage of this interpretation is that not only the stuff looks like those intestines, but also "lab" means abomasum in German. Abomasum is peculiar to ruminants, so not necessarily a goat: may be, say, a lamb.
BTW, it was exactly Damschen who once suggested the reading of "lab" (I quote him in my blog post referenced above), but somehow he did not pay much attention to that option.
Hi Anton,
David Jackson directed me here regarding my contention that the animal could be the South American marsh deer. The animal's ears and black-colored lower legs match the deer better than goat or lamb.
Deer is also a ruminant, but rather than intestines I think it might be the hide of the marsh deer hung up to dry, signifying that this animal was used for the parchment. Similarly, the girl depicted just below the animal would be the manuscirpt's author.
On folio 76v, you will find a girl holding up the hide of a spotted jaguar (my opinion). Please check it out to compare hides.
![[Image: img-voynich-animal-hide.jpg]](http://mortenstgeorge.info/img-voynich-animal-hide.jpg)
At the bottom of folio 79v, we again see the spots, on the hybrid spotted jaguar with crocodile head, matching the hybrid mermaid (woman with fish tail). There appears to be another cat in the water to the left of a prey animal it has just killed, scaring the lamb (or pony) representing the innocence and fear of the girls. In general, along with many other drawings, this is a rainforest scene.
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