Michael Hoffman 7:15 p.m. Sun., Mar. 8, 2026
Contents:
- Douce Website
- Douce Mini
- Douce God [L: YY’, R: YI]
- f134 God [L: IY, R: YY’]
- Douce Book
- Douce – Rock Ossuaries: Hands Feet
- Douce – Fingers Touch Head
- Douce – Rock Ossuaries
- Aristotle Teaching Astronomy
- Aristotle Teaching Astronomy: YI hand-shape pair
- f134 God’s Pointing Line Strikes at {stable column base}
- f134 Sit Tree – Finger Shapes & YI Hand Shape Pair
- f134 Hang Tree – Finger Shapes & YI Hand Shape Pair
- f134 Red’s Y or Y’Y Hand (& Angel’s Y’ Hand; 7777 Fingers)
- f134 YI Shape of Hand Touch {cut right trunk}, Factoring in the Context
- Dancing Man: Angle of Bent Index Finger
- Golden – Adam Eve Eject, [IY’, IIY]
- Golden – Arrowed Guy
- Marriage of YI’ & Y’I: Hand-Shape Pairs
- King & Queen Panel
- YIY’ Is the Main, Most Common, Reference Hand-Shape Pair, But Is Not the Exclusively Correct Pattern
- Motivation for this Page
- See Also
Douce Website
The hand-shape side with minor fingers curled tightly is interesting bc ambiguous, 3-in-1:
The same side shape could be any of 3 shapes (can differentiate if view hand from overhead instead):
- Index & Middle extended, held together parallel; Ring & Pinkie curled.
- Index & Middle extended, splayed Y; Ring & Pinkie curled.
- Index extended; Middle & Ring & Pinkie curled.
Douce Mini
Douce God [L: YY’, R: YI]
This is the reverse of f134 God [L: IY, R: YY’]
- Douce God: [L: YY’, R: YI] = YIYY’ = YIY’
- Canterbury God: [L: IY, R: YY’] = IYYY’ = YIY’
f134 God [L: IY, R: YY’]
New notation: L & R in []
because arb’y (picture-dependent) which hand to start with, in specifying a hand-shape pair.
https://egodeaththeory.org/2022/07/19/psalter-rows/
todo: copy to f134 page
Douce Book
Douce – Rock Ossuaries: Hands Feet
Douce – Fingers Touch Head
Douce – Rock Ossuaries
Aristotle Teaching Astronomy
Aristotle Teaching Astronomy: YI hand-shape pair
no fingers analysis
- Left fingers: \7777
- Right fingers: \I777
Errata:
- Bottom should say IY’, not Y’I, because:
- Thumb is first in terms of attention.
- Standard L to R direction puts thumb first.
f134 God’s Pointing Line Strikes at {stable column base}
f134 Sit Tree – Finger Shapes & YI Hand Shape Pair
f134 Hang Tree – Finger Shapes & YI Hand Shape Pair
f134 Red’s Y or Y’Y Hand (& Angel’s Y’ Hand; 7777 Fingers)
Arg for Red as Y vs. Y’Y
f134 YI Shape of Hand Touch {cut right trunk}, Factoring in the Context
Dancing Man: Angle of Bent Index Finger
Golden – Adam Eve Eject, [IY’, IIY]
Golden – Arrowed Guy
Marriage of YI’ & Y’I: Hand-Shape Pairs
The crop lacks fingers notation analysis; I plan to always include:
- YI shape of hand 1
- YI shape of hand 2
- Finger shape of hand 1
- Finger shape of hand 2
- hand-shape pair
- probably always start w/ Left; this arbitrary convention actually unbiases which hand you start with; a more neutral notation.
- finger-shape pair
- In this case, a special also hand-shape pair: her right hand & his right hand, as a pair.
- Left figure: Left fingers: \IIII
- Left figure: Right fingers: 7\IIII
R thumb is both splayed (as always) and also visually cut, like bent. A mere visual cut (occlusion, with or without black lines) can’t be assumed to be signif, but clearly is signif in this picture. - Right figure: Left fingers: 77II
- Right figure: Right fingers: 7777/
King & Queen Panel
YIY’ Is the Main, Most Common, Reference Hand-Shape Pair, But Is Not the Exclusively Correct Pattern
You can add the freakish I’ shape, or omit the “unenlightened” Y shape.
todo: what are common hand-shape pairs other than YIY’?
Examples:
- YIY’ – Great Canterbury Psalter, Douce Apocalypse
- IY’
- YIY’I’ – marriage king/queen
Motivation for this Page
To upload work (annotated pngs) done on mobile device the past few days, eg:
- Douce
- Manesse
- Salamander bestiary/ dancing man
- Golden – todo: are there many pictures omitted from my gallery? inspect medieval YI hand shapes.
- Great Canterbury Psalter
See Also
The Egodeath theory 
