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[Antonio García Jiménez]

Dear René,

Specifically I was referring to these words you said in 2016 in the thread 'Why the Voynich Zodiac- isn't', opened by David Jackson:

I haven't yet given up on my old theory that the stars represent actual stars in the sky, in the sense of paranatellonta, or a star catalogue, but I certainly can't demonstrate it convincingly enough, so it'll have to stay at the level of one of many ideas.

I understand your caution, but I am not so cautious because for me the Zodiac and its complementary section, Quire 13, are the key to the book. Of course the other parts of the book are what they look like, a medicinal compendium, but the zodiac and Quire 13 are the sections that explain why we see herbs that are not real and a set of cosmological diagrams in a magic herbarium.

The message is that each herb corresponds to a star. It is what we see in the last section wrongly called Recipes and it is what helps to interpret a text that is not a text, but a simple way of reproducing the celestial influences on medicinal herbs through a system of symbols.