24-03-2018, 02:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-03-2018, 02:40 AM by Morten St. George.)
JKP wrote:
The curled tail in the VMS scorpion is similar to some of the lizard-style Scorpius sculptures in 12th to 15th-century church portals in northeastern France/Normandy that featured zodiac cycles. The tail was not always elevated (some were sculpted from the top rather than the side). The lizard-style Scorpius in manuscript art appears to have been derived from earlier sculptural art, since the sculptures precede the lizard-style Scorpius drawings by a couple of centuries.
Today I had a fresh look at your scorpion:
![[Image: img-voynich-scorpio.jpg]](http://mortenstgeorge.info/img-voynich-scorpio.jpg)
In a prior post I suggested that the star could be Antares, the brightest star of the constellation but I have now changed my mind on that. I now think that it is not a celestial star at all but rather the Cathar symbol for a spirit, that is, something that has broken out of the cycle of reincarnation in the material world to enter into eternity in the spiritual world.
As I noted previously, there was a reference to a scorpion in the book believed to have been written in heaven and brought down to earth by Christ. That text alludes to the zodiac via "Aries" and among the zodiac animals only the scorpion has a mors (sting). Thus one must assume that this scorpion lives in the spiritual world. But common scorpions still exist in the material world, can be seen all the time, so the indicated scorpion must be a different type of scorpion.
In other words, the Cathars were forced to create a unique scorpion, one that does not resemble the traditional scorpions. If anywhere you see an astrological scorpion that looks just like the VMS scorpion, it likely came from a Cathar source as only they had motive to create a unique scorpion.
Similarly, the people seen holding stars on a stick in the astrology section would be dead people, Cathar perfecti who received the sacrament of consolamentum and thus ascended to the spiritual world.
Let's now have a look at the VMS drawing of Montsegur, the last stronghold of the Cathars built on top of a mountain with vertical slopes (depicted):
![[Image: img-voynich-castle-field.jpg]](http://mortenstgeorge.info/img-voynich-castle-field.jpg)
Notice the doorway that leads into an open "field" (D'Imperio's term) of stars. Those are not celestial stars; they represent the roughly two hundred perfecti who were burned in a giant bonfire created in a field below the fortress. These perfecti undertook consolamentum and hence ascended to the spiritual world, and are here represented by stars. The number of stars plus the number of glyphs inside the field add up to roughly two hundred.
![[Image: img-montsegur.jpg]](http://mortenstgeorge.info/img-montsegur.jpg)
This is a medieval depiction of the bonfire where a handful represent the two hundred. Note that the fortress has a single coned tower with balcony and windows, just like the VMS depiction.
Cones were more of a feature of French rather than Italian architecture. The fleur de lys was also French. You yourself have discovered that the astrology depictions come from northeastern France. Nobody has claimed that any of the marginalia is written in Italian.
It surprises me that Wikipedia is continuing to insinuate that the VMS was composed in northern Italy. With this unfounded contention Wikipedia is doing severe harm to anyone trying to uncover the true origins of the VMS. I might cancel my donation next year
The curled tail in the VMS scorpion is similar to some of the lizard-style Scorpius sculptures in 12th to 15th-century church portals in northeastern France/Normandy that featured zodiac cycles. The tail was not always elevated (some were sculpted from the top rather than the side). The lizard-style Scorpius in manuscript art appears to have been derived from earlier sculptural art, since the sculptures precede the lizard-style Scorpius drawings by a couple of centuries.
Today I had a fresh look at your scorpion:
In a prior post I suggested that the star could be Antares, the brightest star of the constellation but I have now changed my mind on that. I now think that it is not a celestial star at all but rather the Cathar symbol for a spirit, that is, something that has broken out of the cycle of reincarnation in the material world to enter into eternity in the spiritual world.
As I noted previously, there was a reference to a scorpion in the book believed to have been written in heaven and brought down to earth by Christ. That text alludes to the zodiac via "Aries" and among the zodiac animals only the scorpion has a mors (sting). Thus one must assume that this scorpion lives in the spiritual world. But common scorpions still exist in the material world, can be seen all the time, so the indicated scorpion must be a different type of scorpion.
In other words, the Cathars were forced to create a unique scorpion, one that does not resemble the traditional scorpions. If anywhere you see an astrological scorpion that looks just like the VMS scorpion, it likely came from a Cathar source as only they had motive to create a unique scorpion.
Similarly, the people seen holding stars on a stick in the astrology section would be dead people, Cathar perfecti who received the sacrament of consolamentum and thus ascended to the spiritual world.
Let's now have a look at the VMS drawing of Montsegur, the last stronghold of the Cathars built on top of a mountain with vertical slopes (depicted):
Notice the doorway that leads into an open "field" (D'Imperio's term) of stars. Those are not celestial stars; they represent the roughly two hundred perfecti who were burned in a giant bonfire created in a field below the fortress. These perfecti undertook consolamentum and hence ascended to the spiritual world, and are here represented by stars. The number of stars plus the number of glyphs inside the field add up to roughly two hundred.
This is a medieval depiction of the bonfire where a handful represent the two hundred. Note that the fortress has a single coned tower with balcony and windows, just like the VMS depiction.
Cones were more of a feature of French rather than Italian architecture. The fleur de lys was also French. You yourself have discovered that the astrology depictions come from northeastern France. Nobody has claimed that any of the marginalia is written in Italian.
It surprises me that Wikipedia is continuing to insinuate that the VMS was composed in northern Italy. With this unfounded contention Wikipedia is doing severe harm to anyone trying to uncover the true origins of the VMS. I might cancel my donation next year