Posted: Apr 08, 2011 8:41 am
Hmm. I've had a look at the woodcut, and the script is a bit difficult to decipher, and so is (for me) the antiquated language, but it does indeed talk about "balls" fighting with each other, some blood-coloured, some black, as well as some red crosses and a black spear (not clear to me what the black spear is doing).
Reminiscent of apocalyptic visions in Revelation or Ezekiel or the like (in fact the text begins by calling it a vision - ein sehr erschröcklich gesicht). Sounds to me like a natural phenomen (thunderstorm, meteor shower, whatever), the report on which has gone through many mouths, each embellishing and adding, until we get what is in the Gazette.
Reminiscent of apocalyptic visions in Revelation or Ezekiel or the like (in fact the text begins by calling it a vision - ein sehr erschröcklich gesicht). Sounds to me like a natural phenomen (thunderstorm, meteor shower, whatever), the report on which has gone through many mouths, each embellishing and adding, until we get what is in the Gazette.