12-07-2023, 01:20 PM
It is impossible to know what the Voynich script is without first deciphering its iconography. For our mentality the script (a set of astronomical symbols in my opinion) is so absurd that it can only be understood after the iconological study.
On the zodiacal pages and Quire 13 there are more than 500 female figures. They all represent the same thing: stars, the fixed stars. Not all those in the sky, but those included in the zodiacal constellations, which according to Ptolemy have the greatest influence on terrestrial events.
I once wrote that in the English language it is more difficult than in languages derived from Latin or German to find out why the author has drawn such an enormous number of female figures. It is simply because in English there is no grammatical gender. If I say star I don't know if that object is male or female. In the other languages the noun star is marked with the feminine gender.
It may seem trivial, but I think it is not. The author of the Voynich could not personify the stars in any other way than through female figures.
On the zodiacal pages and Quire 13 there are more than 500 female figures. They all represent the same thing: stars, the fixed stars. Not all those in the sky, but those included in the zodiacal constellations, which according to Ptolemy have the greatest influence on terrestrial events.
I once wrote that in the English language it is more difficult than in languages derived from Latin or German to find out why the author has drawn such an enormous number of female figures. It is simply because in English there is no grammatical gender. If I say star I don't know if that object is male or female. In the other languages the noun star is marked with the feminine gender.
It may seem trivial, but I think it is not. The author of the Voynich could not personify the stars in any other way than through female figures.