26-05-2018, 02:22 AM
(25-05-2018, 06:00 PM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Very good ideas Laura!
Althoug, I think there aren't real women in the Voynich. They are the personification of the stars. What you call life-force of the women, I call the virtue that the stars give to medicinal herbs. You will have observed that some nymphs weare a crown. They aren't queens; it is a form of saying its character of astral spirits. I think this idea is more medieval
I've just been reading more about this and it seems like it fits well both with the manuscript and the medieval context in which it was written. I suppose this could still fit with my reading of the illustrations in a way, although perhaps I'm just trying to force the two together because I don't want to give up on the theory of it being about how plants work! (I suppose in the 15th Century the scientific study of plants was very intertwined with 'magical thinking' / religion though - I don't suppose you could have one without the other, or even, that they were the same thing). Thanks for commenting, I'm still reading so many ideas here which are new to me and trying to assimilate it all. It's going to take me a while!