09-05-2019, 06:45 PM
(09-05-2019, 05:30 PM)Antonio García Jiménez wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view....
I don't believe in a linguistic solution but I really appreciate the research that professor Stephen Bax did. He highlighted the importance of some key images such as the Moon in conjuction with the Pleiades and Aldebaran. Marco also contributed some evidence pointing to a representation of the lunar mansions.
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I don't what to take anything away from Bax because he was a genial man, died too young, and he's no longer here to defend himself, but the idea of Pleiades (and of the plant) was not original to him. What he did was to take existing "translations" that had a higher degree of acceptance than others within the Voynich community (Pleiades, Centaurus, "daiin" as "and") and present them in the context of a specific language or as an academic paper.
His main contention was that the VMS was an Arabic substitution cipher.
There is still no proof that the seven stars represent Pleiades (they probably do, it was an extremely popular theme found in many medieval manuscripts, but there were other interpretations for seven stars in the Middle Ages that should not be overlooked).

