United States or Malawi ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The carvers were doubtless quite illiterate and may well have thought that the pincers in the drawing from which they were working were a letter and may therefore have mixed them up to the puzzling of future generations. Or since nowhere is 'Tayaz serey' written with the 'z' may not the first 'y' be the final 'z' of Tanaz misplaced?
She holds that 'Tãyas erey' or 'Tãya serey' should be read 'Tanaz serey, 'I shall be tenacious' for Tanaz is old Portuguese for Tenaz and that the Y is nothing but a rebus or picture of a tenaz or pair of pincers, and indeed the Y's are very like pincers.
Between each shaft are narrow mouldings, and between the outer five four bands of ivy, not as rich or as elaborately undercut as on the chapel side, but still beautiful, and interesting as the ivy forms many double circles, two hundred and four in all, in each of which are written the words 'Tãyas Erey' or 'Tãya Serey, Dom Manoel's motto. For years this was a great puzzle.
Word Of The Day