10-06-2018, 08:56 PM
You are right that astrology governed bathing practices as well, but in the Voynich I'm convinced that text and imagery form a whole, both talk about the same thing: the influence of stars on herbs.
In the Middle Ages, the theologian and cardinal virtues were represented as women. The personification was a common method used in iconography. In the Voynich, the women are stars. When you see the zodiac section there is not any doubt. The biological section is more complex but what we see are the stars coming down to the Earth through pipes. They have to come across all the machinery of the aristotelic cosmos. In the Rosettes we can see the pipes and this machinery.
The ripples are the symbol of the sphere of the fix stars.They are an stylized iconography from the ouroboros, symbol of the perpetual time
In the Middle Ages, the theologian and cardinal virtues were represented as women. The personification was a common method used in iconography. In the Voynich, the women are stars. When you see the zodiac section there is not any doubt. The biological section is more complex but what we see are the stars coming down to the Earth through pipes. They have to come across all the machinery of the aristotelic cosmos. In the Rosettes we can see the pipes and this machinery.
The ripples are the symbol of the sphere of the fix stars.They are an stylized iconography from the ouroboros, symbol of the perpetual time