02-11-2017, 08:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-11-2017, 08:51 AM by Diane.
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I do wish I could remember who it was - perhaps someone else will - but it was suggested some time ago that the figure was a form of dragon. I can certainly see it, and add the illustration here. But in the end, trying to read an image so indistinct, without any knowledge of where the thing came from, or what relationship was intended for the various elements on f.116v, I don't think it's possible to get beyond guesswork and speculation about it. But that's just my opinion.
The reading of 'goat's milk' btw is constantly asserted but remains speculation too. It was first mooted ... what, eighty years ago or 'so, and though this reading has been pushed, constantly, and revived again when superceded, it is still just one possibility of several, and I don't think it sure enough to influence our interpretation of anything else. Not yet, anyway.
It's such a pity we don't have a Voynich-pedia in which it is possible to cross-reference the various interpretations of this or that detail, and who said what. Perhaps after we've all passed on.
![[Image: lastpagetopleft-outline-dragon-maybe.jpg]](https://voynichimagery.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/lastpagetopleft-outline-dragon-maybe.jpg)
The reading of 'goat's milk' btw is constantly asserted but remains speculation too. It was first mooted ... what, eighty years ago or 'so, and though this reading has been pushed, constantly, and revived again when superceded, it is still just one possibility of several, and I don't think it sure enough to influence our interpretation of anything else. Not yet, anyway.
It's such a pity we don't have a Voynich-pedia in which it is possible to cross-reference the various interpretations of this or that detail, and who said what. Perhaps after we've all passed on.