[Article] Pardis Motiee, "First Page of Voynich Manuscript: The Unheard Story" (LingBuzz)

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پج -> بج -> بز

One dictionary used the word sheep to explain goat, as well as wild goat .  The problem is a person may call toad a frog ,but in biology they have different characteristics . Could writer distinguish You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view..and.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.. ? The picture looks like a goat and so we can say the animal is a goat then we go to houses and see Capricorn(جدی) is a goat so we can say that's it. But I am not sure if the sea goat would be drawn as a goat. Certainly boz is not an ox. Between remaining Capricorn and Aries I will choose Capricorn. But is drawing clear enough?

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Sheep were occasionally drawn as goats (blog You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.) and zodiac figures were sometimes out of order (although this is rare), but if we take the order of the VMS zodiac-figures at face value, it would suggest that it's more likely to be an Aries sheep drawn like a goat than to be a goat.

Sea goats were often drawn as Capricorn 4-legged goats, especially in the later Middle Ages, so it doesn't have to be a seagoat to be a zodiac figure.