17-07-2023, 08:06 AM
You are correct that the author identifies the stars with the flowers. He establishes a connection between them.
That the sun and the moon in the Voynich have faces is something that is not surprising to anyone who knows the constant recourse to allegory that was made in the Middle Ages. The planets were habitually represented as men and women, and the same occurs in the VM with the zodiacal fixed stars. They are personified as women.
That the sun and the moon in the Voynich have faces is something that is not surprising to anyone who knows the constant recourse to allegory that was made in the Middle Ages. The planets were habitually represented as men and women, and the same occurs in the VM with the zodiacal fixed stars. They are personified as women.

