[Book] Analysis of Labels in the Voynich Codex Reveals it is an Astrological Calalogue

[Hermes777]

In August I published my analysis of Labels in the Voynich Codex which may be of interest to fellow Voynichologists. The description and link are below:

Brief Description:

I identified label words in Voynich illustrations and colour coded these throughout the Voynich 101 transcribed text. 
Many areas of the text became so dense with these labels that they were lists, and I hypothesise that at least in places it is a catalogue of proper names. 

Interestingly, many labels doubled as plant labels and star labels.

This process revealed that many labels of figures in the 'balneological' section are also for stars and plants, showing that the figures of woman are personified depictions of stars and plants. I hypothesise that this whole section is an allegorical depiction of astrological influence. 

Included in this book is an entire list of labels and also the entire colour coded Voynich 101 text. 

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Thanks so much for your contribution Daniel. From the description it seems like a valuable work presenting a very reasonable hypothesis. I think it is a very safe assumption that the manuscript presents, or depends upon, systems of correspondences between the celestial order - the fixed stars especially - and plants. And it would seem that the nymphs are in some way intermediaries. Although I note there is no explicit connection between the nymphs and the herbs in the illustrations, only the nymphs and the stars. 

In my view, this is because there are further parallels that are topographical. At the centre of the work we expect a chart of human physiology with the stars and herbs mapped to organs etc in the standard manner. It is hardly a herbalism without parallelisms to anatomy and physiology. And yet at the centre is a map. 

My own reading is that the nymphs are mountain nymphs (Hellenized versions of the Ladin mythology) and we see them controlling and measuring the mountain terrain, specifically the waters. But more properly, rather than "personifications of stars and plants", they are (as per the Ladin mythos) anthropomorphizations of light (and thus are blonde and rosy cheeked.) 

The conceptual hurdle here is to appreciate the way in which, in any traditional emanationist cosmology, water can be taken as a condensation of light. I think it's necessary to understand that in order to discern the operative parallels in this work, again from the illustrations. I expect the text matches the illustrations. 

I like the suggestion of lists of proper names. Lists, in any case. Inventories. What seem to be peculiarities of the language might be effects of the type of text it is. I look forward to reading the book.