19-12-2021, 06:23 PM
Sorry Linda, in the misnamed nymphs I only see female figures. I'm as sure of it as you are of the opposite. What I see is a firm, determined and persistent will to draw female figures, one and another and another and another... If there is any figure that seems masculine, it is not part of the design and the message of the book.
The misnamed nymphs of the quire 13 are the same ladies we see on the zodiacal pages. Each of them holds a star in her hand. For those who want to hear is as if they said: look at me I am a star, I represent a star in the sky.
And I insist that for those whose native language is English it is more difficult to realize that star is a noun of the feminine gender in the culture to which the Voynich belongs.
The misnamed nymphs of the quire 13 are the same ladies we see on the zodiacal pages. Each of them holds a star in her hand. For those who want to hear is as if they said: look at me I am a star, I represent a star in the sky.
And I insist that for those whose native language is English it is more difficult to realize that star is a noun of the feminine gender in the culture to which the Voynich belongs.