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[Antonio García Jiménez]

If the iconographic reading of  the VM were easy we would not be here debating it, but we have to give a meaning to what we see, and a meaning according to its time.

Why are the naked ladies seen on tubes or stuck in them? What do those pipes mean? This is an obligatory question

I see tubes on the Rosettes. Are they the same tubes? I think so because is the representation of the medieval universe, an universe of crystalline solid spheres. How would a medieval man imagine that the light of the stars reached the Earth? Well, possibly through tubes as if there were pipes in the sky.
  
What is then the relationship of the ladies (the allegory of the stars) and the plants? Well, we know the medieval lapidaries in which the stones are related to stars. Here it is the herbs. It is consistent with the culture of the time.

Let's not forget that in the VM we practically only see two things: plants and astronomical and zodiacal diagrams, many of them full of stars