22-07-2023, 08:47 AM
It must be understood that although there are details that coincide with those of other manuscripts, the Voynich has its own unique iconography, a system of representation that we must try to understand within its pages, its different sections.
Let's interpret this image:
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Although in the zodiacal pages there are naked women who seem to be taking a bath in that kind of tub, I see that this interpretation cannot be correct, since these others are dressed and it doesn't make sense that they did so in tubs full of water.
In Quire 13 the same women are surrounded by tubes on which they perch. What the author wanted to represent is that they go down those tubes. And he has drawn that kind of pools precisely so that we can see them after going down.
And those tubes are the same ones we see on the Rosettes page, a representation of the medieval firmament:
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And what the author probably wanted to represent is how the light of the stars or their essence or their virtues shoot out of those tubes in the direction of the Earth.
Let's interpret this image:
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Although in the zodiacal pages there are naked women who seem to be taking a bath in that kind of tub, I see that this interpretation cannot be correct, since these others are dressed and it doesn't make sense that they did so in tubs full of water.
In Quire 13 the same women are surrounded by tubes on which they perch. What the author wanted to represent is that they go down those tubes. And he has drawn that kind of pools precisely so that we can see them after going down.
And those tubes are the same ones we see on the Rosettes page, a representation of the medieval firmament:
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And what the author probably wanted to represent is how the light of the stars or their essence or their virtues shoot out of those tubes in the direction of the Earth.

